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Grade 10 History
History
Final Exam Review
Summary Sheet
Confederation
Louis Riel
Manitoba School Question
The Boer War
The Naval Crisis
Pre-war economic, technological, and social change
Treatments of immigrants
Reciprocity Treaty
Tom Longboat
What are the 4 things that eventually lead to the breakout of WWI?
What sparked the beginning of WWI?
When did WWI start? End?
Canada is committed to war – is allowed to decide how involved we want to be
How did Canadians contribute to on the war front? On the home front?
The Halifax explosion
WWI timeline of events (assassination, ultimatum, Germany declares war on France)
Sam Hughes, Minister of the Militia – Valcartier QB
War at Sea – u-boats, wolf packs, “unrestricted submarine warfare”
War in the Sky – Black Flight, Fokker, dogfight, Richtofen, Roy Brown, Billy Bishop
Why were there so many volunteers at the beginning of the war?
Technology – how was WWI fought differently than previous wars?
TRENCHES
Trench foot
Barbed wire
No-mans land
Shrapnels and machine guns
Important Generals and other leaders
Battles on the Western Front
Ypres
Somme
Vimy Ridge
Passchendale
Hindenburg Line
1917 Russian Revolution – Russia drops out of WWI
1917 Lusitania, US cruise ship, is sunk – USA joins WWI
Enemy aliens and internment camps, the War Measures Act invoked
New Roles for Women
Nurses, ambulance drivers, men’s jobs on the farm (kept the country running, mass production, economic upswing)
Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy
1917 War Time Elections Act
1920 Dominion Elections Act
Conscription – English/French Relations
Military Services Bill
Military Voters Act
Wartime Elections Act
Pacifists and conscientious objectors
The Last 100 days
Nov 10, 1918 – Allies capture city of Mons, symbolic
NOVEMBER 11, 1918 – 11am – armistice is signed, Remembrance Day
January 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles
Terms and repercussions of initiating the war for Germany
Effect of the War
Casualties
Social
Economic
Political
National and International
Insulin & Diabetes – Banting and Best
Prohabition
Spanish Flu epidemic
Post-war problems: inflation, taxes, debts, no jobs for returning soliders
October 19, 1919 – Winnipeg General Strike – “Bloody Saturday” – riot act
Unions – OBU
1919 Soldiers Settlement Act
1927 The Pension Act
1930 War Veterans Allowance Act
Aboriginals – made to assimilate, mistreated in residential schools
League of Indians
The Person’s Case – the Famous Five – women in politics
Xenophobia
The Chinese Exclusion Act – July 1, 1925 – “Humiliation Day”
Canada’s Growing Autonomy
1922 Canak Affair
1923 Halibut Treaty
1926 The Balfour Report
1926 The King/Byng Crisis
1927/28 New Foreign Embassies
1931 The Statue of Westminster
Inventions and Fads – mass media influences
Radio
Car
Plane
Urbanization
Fads and fashion
Movies and music
What are the 4 stages of the business cycle?
Causes of the Depression
1. Overproduction, overexpansion
2. Dependence on Primary Industries
3. Dependence on the USA
4. High Tariffs
5. Credit Buying
6. Stock Market – “Buying on Credit”
October 29, 1929 – “THE CRASH” – beginning the Great Depression
Extreme hardship
Global
During the Depression
Living conditions
Government response
Financial relief
Different regions of the country were affected differently
On-to-Ottawa Trek
The Great Escape
Radio (CBC)
Film (NFB)
Condition of post-war Germany
Treaty of Versailles
Economic problems – debt and inflation, Germany mark worthless
Depression and unemployment
Government instability
German citizens angry and humiliated, have a need for revenge
Hitler and the NAZI Party
Hitler, German dictator, powerful leader who understood the needs of the German people
Timeline of the Nazi rise to power (how they took over)
Dur Furher and Mein Kampf
Hitler Youth Movement
The spread of Nazism
Why Canada slept?
Memories; pacifism; the Depression; isolationism; political leadership; appeasement
General Timeline (build up until WWII)
When did Canada declare war on Germany?
Blitzkrieg (lightning war), Luftwaffe, Hindenberg, Autobahn, Reichstag, Jesse Owens, S.A., S.S., Goerring, Goebbles, Rohm
The Holocaust
Anti-Semitism; Hitler’s Aryan (pure) race
Nuremberg Law 1935
What types of things were Jewish people banned from?
Anne Frank, Albert Einstein, Oskar Schindle (German), Raoul Wallenberg (Swedish), Rosa Roberta
Anti-Semitism in Canada – the St. Louis Incident
The “Solutions”
Voluntary Immigration (1933-1939)
Expulsion and Ghettos (1939-1942)
Extermination and Concentration Camps (1942-1945)
Gas chambers and cremation
6 million of 9 million Jews were killed, 2/3 of the Jewish population in Europe
The Battle of Britain – the phony war
June 22, 1941 – Hitler attacks Russia, 2 front war
Dunkirk evacuation
Pearl Harbor
The Battle at Hong Kong
The Raid of Dieppe (catastrophe)
The Italian Campaign (Operation Husky, Ortona)
On the Home Front – total war
Rationing of food and materials
C.D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply, “Minister of Everything”, Howe’s Boys, “got the ball rolling”
Mass production of munitions, war vehicles, food, and other supplies
Canadian/US Relations
1940 Ogdensburg Agreement
1941 Hyde Park Agreement
1941 Lend-Lease Act
1942-1943 Alaska Highway
Camp X
Spy training camp
Off the shores of lake Ontario
William Stephenson, camp director, “Intrepid”
A British, Canadian, and US cooperation effort
Conscription
King doesn’t want to split the country
National Resources Mobilization Act 1940
Plebiscite (1942)
“Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.”
Was able to keep Canadians unified
New Roles for Women
Like in WWI, they kept the country going
Took over male jobs
Part of the army, air force, and navy
Not in combat, but worked closely behind the frontlines
Leaders During WWII
King
Hitler
Churchill
Mussolini
Roosevelt/Truman
Stalin
Hirohito
Generals Douglas McArthur and Eisenhower
The Manhattan Project
US and BR developed the 1st atomic bomb – top secret project
Main ingredient, uranium
Albert Einstein, and OTHER GUY
Atomic bomb is capable of mass destruction
3 bombs made, first tested in Area 51, second and third used
Hiroshima – August 6 1945, Enola Gay, “little boy”
Nagasaki – August 9 1945, 2nd bomb dropped
Victory in Japan (VJ Day) September 2, 1945
Japan surrenders to General Douglas McArthur
