Social 20-1 Final Exam – 100% Verified
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, Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism - ✔✔a Canadian government comission investigating the
tension between Canada's government and francophones in Quebec. Recommended that francophones be given
more opportunity to participate in society and more jobs for them be created.
Official Languages Act - ✔✔Made Canada officially bilingual in 1969, so federal services must be available in
both languages.
Bill 101 - ✔✔A controversial law in Quebec in 1977 that made French the only official language of the
province and forced businesses to employ French speakers and have to offer services in French. Angered many
of Quebec's Anglophones.
Western Alienation - ✔✔the feeling that Eastern Canada is favoured in Canadian policy making
National Energy Programme (NEP) - ✔✔The 1980 policy implemented by Trudeau that aimed to encourage
Canadian ownership in Canada's oilsands. Taxed foreign companies greatly and caused many of them to pull
out of Alberta, damaging the economy.
cultural pluralism - ✔✔Promoting for many cultures to coexist within a society and maintain their cultural
differences.
appeasement - ✔✔Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.
lebensraum - ✔✔the German policy of wishing to expand their land.
national interests - ✔✔something that will benefit that nation or country
Franz Ferdinand - ✔✔Austro-Hungarian archduke whose assassination in Sarajevo by the "black hand" caused
Austria-Hungary to deliver an ultimatum to Serbia, starting the First World War.
Triple Alliance - ✔✔Central Powers in WWI. Included Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
Triple Entente - ✔✔Allies in WWI. Included British Empire (including Canada), France, Russia, and eventually
USA.
Vimy Ridge - ✔✔one of Canada's most impressive WWI victories, taking a French hill that other forces were
unable to from the Germans. One of the battles that earned the Canadians the reputation they got as good
fighters after WWI.
arms race - ✔✔competition to build up the best and most powerful weapons in order to prove military prowess.
genocide - ✔✔systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
League of Nations - ✔✔International organization founded to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly