Personal Doodoo History notes.

4 my eyes only; open at ur own risk

How long did WWI last?

1. July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918.

Causes of WW1.

Militarism.

Alliances.

Imperialism.

Nationalism. 

Triple Entente members

1. France 
2. Great Britain. 
3. Russia.

Triple Alliance members

1. Germany.
2. Austria-Hungary.
3. Italy.

Notable Women’s war effort :

1. “The Dorcas Club” - where they made clothing for the men 
2. overseas as nurses 
3. Royal Air Force 
4. munition factories 
5. civil service

Why did battle of normandy happen?

1. Allied powers needed a European mainland foothold to push back germany.
2. America and Britain launched air strikes in german territory to slow them down
3. This battle began on June 6, 1944 and is also known as D-day. 
4. Germany knew of the invasion but not the location.

Summarise normandy’s first wave of attack

1. Paratroopers parachuted behind German lines at night, securing bridges and exit roads.
2. Dummies were dropped out of plains to trick the germans

Summarise normandy’s second wave of attack

1. Warships bombed beaches from the sea, while planes bombed German defenses and French resistance cut telephone lines and destroyed bridges.
2. The Allies had 5000 ships, 150000 troops and 11000 aircrafts.
3. American, British and Canadian troops landed at beaches of Normandy.

What else happened at normandy?

1. The British landed at gold and sword Beaches.
2. The Canadians landed at juno and sword Beaches.
3. The Americans landed at Utah and Omaha Beaches.
4. Omaha was the bloodiest.
5. By June 17 over 500,000 soldiers were pushing the Germans out of France and by august end northern france was liberated. Germany now had to fight on its west and east.

Summarise Treaty of Versailles

1. Countries imposed sanctions on Germany after WW1
2. Main players: CountriesFrance, Britain, US


1. U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
3. Harsh terms intended to make Germany powerless 


1. Accept total blame for WW1
2. Reparations of $33 billion

Loss of territory.   

What is the No.2 Construction Battalion? 

Segregated black battalion.

briefly summarise On-ward trek to Ottawa

1. Summer of 1935
2. Strike at Ottawa because of great depression; they had no job and times were tough.
3. R. B. Bennett played up the communism angle due to the red scare.

1. Causes of ww2

1. German dissatisfaction due to the treaty of versailles. 
2. Fascism
3. Nationalism; extremist german beliefs.
4. Anti-semetism.  
5. Totalitarianism. 

which dictators facilitated ww2

1. Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany, 
2. Benito Mussolini of Fascist Italy, 
3. Hirohito of Imperial Japan

give a brief discription on hitler

1. 1923: Hitler, leader of Navi party, conducts an armed revolt in Munich


1. The “Beer Hall Putsch”
2. Hitler was thrown in priso
3. Write “Mein Kampf” (my struggle) while in prison
4. 1933 - Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany, becoming “Fuhrer” (leader) 
5. Organized opposition was violently supressed by the “brownshirts” 
6. Hilter’s policy of “Lebensraum” (living room) 


1. Take over German-speaking territories in neighbouring countries such as Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia
2. Defeat Soviet communisioum and expand German territory to the east into the U.S.S.R, expelling non-German people

give a breif description on Mussolini

1. Called “II Duce” meaning “The Leader”
2. Created a totalitarian dictatorship by:


1. Banning opposing political parties & unions
2. Censoring newspapers
3. Creating a secret police force.

summarise the cold war?

1. Lasted 45 years. Info war between capitalist/democratic and communism after ww2. Primarily fought by virtue of proxy wars.

cold war proxy wars are:

1. Korean war; 1950-53.
2. Cuban war; 1953-59.
3. Vietnam 1955-75.

summarise flq

happened in 1970

Front de libération du Québec  a militant Quebec independence movement, between 1963 and 1970. On 5 October 1970, the FLQ kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross in Montreal. Within the next two weeks, FLQ members also kidnapped and killed Quebec Minister of Immigration and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.


1. FLQ had killed 6 by 1970
2. Oct. 5, 1970 – kidnap James Cross, British Trade Commissioner
3. Demand $500 000 in gold; free imprisoned FLQ members; publish FLQ Manifesto; safe passage to Cuba
4. ● Kidnappers murder Laporte
5. ● Arrest 450
6. ● Find Cross in December & negotiate release for passage to Cuba
7. ● Later arrested
8. ● Discover in the end was only 6 teens with a blank pistol and a rusty shotgun

summarise Suez Crisis

happened in  (1956)


1. Israel (1948)
2. Created in Palestine by UN for
3. Jews
4. Arabs opposed & attack
5. Israel expand; Arabs vow to take back
6. Every nation with an interest
7. Crux between Africa, Asia and Europe


1. Source of gas/oil
2. Link between Mediterranean and Indian Ocean
3. US support Israel; USSR support Iraq, Syria & Egypt


1. sell arms

what is nato?

1. North Atlantic treaty organization.
2. Defense pact vs. Soviet aggression and spread of communism Canada, US, UK, France, Italy (12 nations; more join in time)