Chanak Crisis
The Chanak Crisis, was a war scare in September 1922 between the United Kingdom and Turkey.
In the early 1920s, military forces from Britain, France and Greece occupied large portions of western Turkey under the Treaty of Sevres, which was imposed on Turkey following its defeat in the First World War. British troops were stationed around Chanak.
In the fall of 1922, nationalist Turkish forces, which opposed the presence of foreign troops, had succeeded in pushing the Greek army out of the country. The Turks then threatened British forces pinned down at Chanak. The crisis quickly ended when Turkey, having overwhelmed the Greeks, agreed to a negotiated settlement that gave it the territory it wanted.
Halibut Treaty
The Halibut Treaty of 1923 was a Canadian-American agreement on fishing rights in the Pacific Ocean. As the first treaty independently negotiated and signed by the Canadian government, it was one of several landmark events that transitioned Canada into an autonomous sovereign state. The treaty confirmed Canada’s political and economic place in North America. It was also the first environmental treaty targeting the conservation of an ocean fish stock. The final result was the Convention for the Preservation of Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean. The treaty created a season closed to commercial fishing from 16 November to 15 February, with the penalty of seizure. The treaty was to last a minimum of five years.
King-Byng Crisis
The King-Byng Affair was a 1926 Canadian constitutional crisis pitting the powers of a prime minister against the powers of a governor general. The King-Byng Affair was a 1926 Canadian constitutional crisis pitting the powers of a prime minister against the powers of a governor general. It began when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King asked Governor General Lord Julian Byng of Vimy to dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections. Byng refused. It ended with King winning an eventual election, and no governor general ever again publicly refusing the advice of a prime minister.
The prime minister resigned and the governor general invited the Conservative Party to form a government. This government lost a motion of no confidence on 2 July 1926, and the governor general agreed to dissolve parliament immediately.
Statute of Westminster
The Statute of Westminster is a British law that was passed on 11 December 1931. It was Canada’s all-but-final achievement of independence from Britain. Before 1931, the British government had certain ill-defined powers over legislation passed by the Commonwealth Dominions.
It also held overriding authority over those legislatures.
Things began to change after the First World War. The sacrifices of Canada and other Dominions on European battlefields had stirred feelings of nationhood and desires for greater autonomy. On 11 December 1931, the Statute of Westminster was passed by the British Parliament. This was done at the request and with the consent of the Dominions.
After the Statute was passed, the British parliament could no longer make laws for the Dominions, other than with the request and consent of the government of that Dominion. Before then, the Dominions had legally been self-governing colonies of the United Kingdom.
With the King-Byng Crisis, your point about the motion of non-confidence comes before King gets re-elected.
Make sure you can explain these in your own words.
Also, a good conclusion to each would be to give an assessment of how much autonomy was gained by the event.
With the Statute of Westminster, it did grant us our full autonomy but we chose to leave control of our constitution in Britain’s hands because, at the time, we couldn’t decide whether it would be the federal or provincial (or both) governments that would have the authority to chance the constitution once we were in control of it.