world war

Election battles were fought ferociously in pre-World War One Germany, when most middle-class Germans still opposed formal democracy. Anti-democrats deployed many exclusionary strategies that flew in the face of electoral fairness.

Friday, June 24, 2016 12:00 am - Saturday, December 31, 2016 12:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Waterloo Region Museum: City on Edge

Learn how a city was pushed to the edge during the First World War - to the point of changing its name from Berlin to Kitchener through a controversial and high-tension referendum.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 5:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

100 Years Since WWI: Dictatorship and Democracy in an Age of Extremes

Beginning with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the last century saw the rise of Italian fascism and Soviet communism, the world economic crisis, and the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, leading to the horrors of World War II.