CHC 2D1 Exam Review

CHC 2D Exam Review

1. What were the causes of WW1? 2. What was Canada’s Role in the war? 3. What were the two Alliances? (Both sides 4. What were the key battles of WW1? What was the outcome? (Canadian involvement) 5. What was happening on the home front? (Canada Part) 6. Describe in detail the Schlieffen Plan. 7. What was Conscription? How did this happen? 8. What weapons were used / created during WW1? 9. What was Trench Warfare? What were the conditions? 10. What was the Treaty of Versailles? What were the regulations of the treaty? 11. What was the League of Nations? Was it successful? 12. What was a “flapper”? 13. Name 2 new electric appliances available in the 1920s 14. What was a “rum runner”? 15. What was “prohibition”? 16. What was the date of the stock market crash? 17. What is a stock? 18. What part of Canada was hit hardest by the depression? 19. What insect caused the greatest damage to Western Canada? 20. Briefly describe the conditions in relief camps. 21. Describe what happened in the ‘On-to-Ottawa Trek’. 22. What was “buying on margin”? 23. Who was in favour of prohibition? 24. What was the “Persons Case”? 25. What happened during the Winnipeg General Strike? 26. What kinds of problems were farmers facing during the late 20s and early 30s? 27. What did R.B. Bennett include in his New Deal? 28. What was a “Bennett Buggy”? 29. What was a “Bennett Blanket”? 30. Who operated relief camps? 31. Where were relief camps located? 32. Why were many women able to find jobs and their husbands were not? 33. List 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages to prohibition. 34. Why did living conditions in Canada improve in the 1920s? 35. Use the space below to show a prosperous economic cycle and the cycle of a depression. 36. What ended the Great Depression? 37. Why did the stock market collapse? 38. Name all the Dictators in Europe during the 1930s and the countries they lead. 39. What was the German “blitzkrieg?” 40. What does Appeasement mean? 41. Describe the events of Dieppe. 42. Describe the events of Dunkirk. 43. Describe the events of D-Day. 44. Describe the events of the Battle of Britain. 45. Describe the events of Stalingrad. 46. Describe the events of Pearl Harbour. 47. How did Hitler break the Treaty of Versailles? 48. What was Hitler’s secret police called? 49. What was Mussolini’s secret police called? 50. How did Mussolini die? What happened to his body? 51. What country was the Sudetenland a part of? 52. What is Anti-Semitism? 53. Why was the Spanish Civil War important in the events leading up to WWII? 54. What is a German submarine called? 55. What happened to Japanese Canadians during WWII? Why? 56. Who was Canada’s Prime Minister during WWII? 57. What did Hitler do to get arrested? 58. What was the name of his book? What does it translate to in English? 59. What was the code name for the Battle of Britain? 60. What was the code name for the attack on Stalingrad? 61. Why did Stalin and Hitler sign a Non-Aggression Pact? 62. Why were the bombs dropped on Japan? Do you think this was appropriate? 63. What lessons were learned from Dieppe that were put in place for D-Day? 64. Describe the Hitler Youth. What did they do? 65. Describe life in a concentration camp. 66. What happened during Kristallnacht? 67. How did the League of Nations fail? 68. Why did the German people support Hitler? 69. Were the reparations paid to the Japanese-Canadians enough? Explain your answer. 70. Describe the invasion of Italy. How was this a major turning point? 71. Describe what happened between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. at the end of the war. 72. Discuss the events of the Korean war. How was this a part of the Cold War? How did it affect Canada? 73. What was the Berlin Airlift? 74. Explain what the Quiet Revolution was. 75. What was NATO? 76. What was NORAD? 77. What was the DEW line? 78. What was the Warsaw Pact? 79. Who was Igor Gouzenko? 80. Discuss the events of the Vietnam War. How was this part of the Cold War? How did it affect Canada? 81. Discuss the culture of the 1960s. What were the Baby Boomers doing at this time? 82. Describe the ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. 83. Describe the ideas of Malcolm X. 84. Who was Pierre Elliot Trudeau? What did he do? 85. Describe the events of the October Crisis. 86. Who were Pierre Laporte and James Cross? 87. What was Trudeaumania? 88. What was the War Measures Act? How did Canadian’s react when Trudeau enacted it? 89. What is a Cold War? What evidence proves this existed after World War II? 90. What countries did Canadian Peacekeepers go into after 1991? Explain these events. 91. What was the Oka crisis?