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Hockey Series between Canada and the USSR - Arguably the greatest sports event in Canadian history
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1972 Canada Soviet Summit Series
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Government signed agreement in 1965 that boosted its trade. Placed tariffs on incoming and outgoing cars in Canada
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Auto Pact
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Arrow built by Canada but it costed to much money so the government shut it down
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Avro Arrow
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Longest continuous military campaign in WWII lasting from 1939 to Germanys defeat in 1945
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The Battle of Atlantic
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What is Bill 101?
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Made french used in Quebec's government, business, schools, and courts
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What is the CBC?
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Canada's largest broadcasting corporation
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What is the CCF/NDP?
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Are now the NDP (New Democratic Party) and the opposition of Canada's present government
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What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms 1982?
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Guaranteed the Democratic, Civil, and Legal rights of all Canadians by formally writing them in to the constitution
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Citizenship Act 1947
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Enacted 27 June 1946 - Came into effect 1 January 1947 - Enabled the discussion of a common citizenship on all Canadian's weather or not they had been born in Canada. Canadian Citizenship, however, was deemed a privilege to be granted to only those
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A system of radar stations in the far northern arctic region of Canada
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DEW Line
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Dieppe
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August 1942 - One of Canada's biggest wartime failures with many people dyeing, injured, or taken prisoner of war.
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Flag Debate
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DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED!
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FLQ
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A movement in Quebec in regards to language crisis. FLQ
was a terrorist group trying to get Quebec to separate
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Gouzenko Affair
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Igor
Gouzenko defected from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in September 1945 with
documents revealing the existence of an espionage ring in Canada and the United
States, William Lyon Mackenzie King initially wanted nothing to do with him.
Even with Gouzenko in hiding and under RCMP protection, the Canadian prime
minister repeatedly pushed for a diplomatic solution to avoid upsetting the
Soviet Union. Soviet Union wanted to capture Gouzenko and have him killed for
his actions
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John Humphrey
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Canadian legal scholar, jurist, and human rights
advocate. He is most famous as the author of the first draft of the Universal
Declaration on Human Rights.
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