Canadian History Timeline
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1867- Confederation, Canada becomes a nation
1896- Laurier becomes Prime Minister
• Prime Ministers of Canada
1899- Boer War begins in South Africa
1910- Naval Services Act
1912- Titanic Sinks
1914- WWI Begins
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1915- Imperial Munitions Board (IMB) Established
- Second Battle of Ypres
1916- Battle of the Somme
1917- Canadians capture Vimy Ridge
- Conscription Crisis
1918- WWI Ends
1919- Winnipeg General Strike
• Winnipeg General Strike
• - Treaty of Versailles
1920s- Group of Seven
• Group of Seven
- Prohibition
1921- Agnes MacPhail becomes first Canadian MP
• Famous Canadian Women
- MacKenzie King becomes Prime Minister
1926- Balfour Report
1928- Famous "Person's Case"
1929- Stock Market Crash
1930- Bennett becomes Prime Minister
1932- Relief camps established
1933- CCF formed
- Hitler comes to power in Germany
• Rise of Adolf Hitler
1935- Bennett's New Deal fails
- MacKenzie King back in power as Prime Minister
- Mussolini invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1938- Anschluss, Germany annexes Austria
• WWII Timeline
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1939- Nazis take Czechoslovakia
- Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
- Nazis invade Poland (Sept.1)
- Canada declares war on Germany (Sept.10)
1940- Battle of Britain
1941- Germany invades Soviet Union
- Japanese attack Pearl Harbour
1942- Dieppe
- P.M. King implements conscription after plebiscite
- Japanese-Canadians interned
1944- D-Day
1945- Allies invade Germany
- Germany surrenders
- VE-Day
- USA drops 2 atomic bombs on Japan