Canadian History Exam Review
Part C – Short Answer Topics
Event that triggered WWI
Key figures: William Lyon Mackenzie King vs. R.B. Bennett
Canadian Autonomy: 5 significant events
Causes of the Great Depression
Juno Beach/Battle of Normandy
Policy of Appeasement
Failure of the League of Nations
Treatment of Japanese Canadians/Internment camps
Exam Format
Part A: Multiple Choice (20 marks)
Part B: Common Element – Application (20 marks)
Part D: Long Answer (1 out of 4) – Communication (20 marks)
Unit 1: World War I
War Measures Act
Rationing
Victory Bonds
Triple Alliance (Central Powers)
Key battles: Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Somme, Passchendaele
4 M.A.I.N Causes of WWI
Halifax Explosion
Treaty of Versailles Terms
Fighting on Land & Trench Warfare
Conscription Crisis
B.R.A.T (Blame, Reparations, Army, Territory)
Warfare technology: artillery, machine guns, tanks
Enemy Aliens, Black Hand/Gavrilo Princip
Unit 2: Roaring 20s and Dirty 30s
Popular Inventions of the 1920s
On-To-Ottawa Trek
Person’s Case
Bennett’s Solutions
Hobos/freight trains, Bennett Buggies
Relief Camps
Frederick Banting and Charles Best
Farmers during the Great Depression
Prohibition effects
Unemployed Workers during the Depression
Emergence of new Political Parties
Women’s issues
Impact of residential schools/assimilation
Prairie Life in the 30s: Dust Bowl/Drought
Bootleggers/Speakeasies/Mafia
Scapegoats
Unit 3: World War II
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
D-Day/VE Day/VJ Day
Der Führer
Blitzkrieg
Atomic Bomb
Totalitarian State power maintenance methods
Luftwaffe (German air force)
Wehrmacht (Nazi armed forces)
Pearl Harbor
Holocaust: Ghetto/Concentration camps
Enemy Aliens/relocation
Hitler and Stalin’s scapegoats
Direct causes of WWII
Panzer tanks
Axis Powers
Unit 4: Cold War
United Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Superpowers and their nuclear weapons
Iron Curtain/Eastern Bloc
Sputnik