Canadian History in the 20th Century:  Trivia

 

Match the letter (person) to the correct statement.  You can use the internet, Markville History website or the textbook.

Letter

Statement

Person / Event

 

1.  A technological marvel created by Canada that despite its advancement in aerospace travel,  was cancelled.

A.  D-Day

 

2.  This province was the last to join Confederation in 1949.

B.  Internment Camps

 

3.   He was Prime Minister during WWI and introduced the income tax to help pay for the war (which still exists today)

C.  Holocaust

 

4.  In 1980 and 1995, Quebec used this to try to separate politically from Canada.

D. Lester B. Pearson

 

5.   Major WWI battle led by Canadian General Arthur Currie in France in which Canada received world recognition. 

E.  Pierre Elliott Trudeau

 

6.  These were established to assimilate Aboriginal children into Canadian society.

F.  Foster Hewitt

 

7.  He was Canada’s famous air ace of WWI, who had 72 enemy kills and won the Victoria Cross.

G.  Head Tax

 

8.  During WWII, all Japanese Canadian in British Columbia were rounded up, possessions sold and placed in these places. 

H.  Avro Arrow

 

9.  Canada supplied uranium to the United States to develop this which led to the defeat of Japan in WWII.

I. Residential Schools

 

10.  He is one of Canada’s most popular Prime Ministers who drove sports cars and did pirouettes behind Queen Elizabeth II.

J.  Manitoba

 

11.  This was the full scale Allied invasion of France during WWII (opening scene of “Saving Private Ryan”)

K.  Franz Ferdinand

 

12.  Canada made all Chinese immigrants pay $500 for this 1903. 

L.  Referendum

 

13.  This means that all abled men from 20-45 are forced to join the war

M.   Vimy Ridge

 

14.  He was the voice behind “Hockey Night in Canada” and coined the phrase “he shoots, he scores!”

N.   Atomic Bomb

 

15.  He is Canada’s only Prime Minister to win the Nobel Peace prize with his creation of the United Nations Emergency Task Force during the Suez Crisis

O.  Billy Bishop

 

16.   This province was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1916. 

P. Conscription

 

17.   His assassination triggered the First World War (also a band).

Q. Treaty of Versailles

 

18.  Ironically, this was the formal peace treaty that ended WWI that became  the primary cause of WWII.

R.  Robert Borden

 

19.   During WWII, over 11 million people (Jews, Gypsies, Blacks, Slavs, Homosexual, Disabled) were exterminated by the Nazis.

S.  Newfoundland