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