CHC2D1 – Exam Outline (January 2011)
Thinking and Inquiry (30 marks)
Part A: Paragraph Responses (15 marks, 5 marks x 3)
Choose any three of the four questions listed below. Answer each question in a well-written paragraph. Include your opinion
when necessary.
Remember: only answer 3 questions!
SAMPLE QUESTION – Was the atomic bomb was necessary to end the Second World War?
Part B: Identify and Explain the Historical Significance (15 marks, 5x3)
Identify three of the six terms and thoroughly explain the significance of the each one you chose in point-form. Be as exhaustive as
possible when explaining point-form details. You must only choose 3 terms.
SAMPLE TERMS – NATO, Prohibition, Reciprocity
Knowledge and Understanding (30 marks)
Part C: Identify & explain the historical significance of the person(s) and/or event(s) depicted in the following pictures. (10
marks = 5 x 2 marks)
Identify 5 of the following 7 pictures and explain their historical significance in the box beside the picture.
SAMPLE – PICTURE
Name ____________________________________
Historical Significance:
PART D: True and False (10 marks)
Use the Scantron card. Shade in the “A” box for statements that are true and the “B” box for statements that are false.
PART E: Multiple Choice (10 marks) Select the best possible answer for the following questions. Place your answer and the
corresponding letter in the space provided AND onto the Scantron.
Communication (15 marks)
PART F: Creative Writing Component (15 marks)
In properly structured paragraph form you must use historical facts to communicate your thoughts & feelings in one of the
situations. Essentially it is a…’what would you do’ situational type of question. HINT – know letter writing and editorial writing
format.
Application (20 marks)
PART G: APPLICATION (10 marks)
Timeline activity
PART H: ESSAY QUESTION (10 marks)
Answer 1 of 2 questions in essay format
TOPICS TO REVIEW
This course spans a great deal of time and information. It is extremely important that you do attempt to review all your notes leading up to the
exam as there are so many links and connections to be made between each of the time periods we have studied.
As a final review, the following is a list of topics that will be important for you to review for your final exam. Although some of the topics may not
appear specifically on the exam, they will all come in handy for your complete understanding of the larger issues and topics covered in the
course and for greater success.
PRE-WWI
• Reciprocity
• Election of 1911
WORLD WAR ONE
• Long Term and Short Term Causes
• Triple Entente vs. Triple Alliance
• Major Battles
• Trench Warfare
• Schlieffen Plan
• Inventions
• Important Individuals
• Conscription Crisis
• War on the Home front
• Treaty of Versailles
1920s and 1930s
• Life in the Twenties and Thirties for Canadians
• Important Individuals
• Inventions
• Social Changes
• On to Ottawa Trek
• Relief Camps
• Natives: Residential Schools and other issues
• Women: Vote/Person’s Case
• Treatment of other Minorities
• Prohibition
• Stock Market
• Long term and Short term Causes of the Depression
• Lessons learned from the Depression
WORLD WAR TWO
• Long Term and Short Term Causes
• Totalitarianism (Fascism, Nazism, Communism)
• Major Battles
• Important Individuals
• Conscription Crisis
• War on the Home front
• Japanese Internment
• Holocaust including Canadian reaction
THE COLD WAR
• Communism vs. Capitalism
• The United Nations
• Peace Keeping
• Korean War
• Suez Crisis
• NATO/NORAD
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Other Flashpoints
• Social and Cultural Changes
1950-1995 INTERNAL ISSUES
• Avro Arrow
• Military changes
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Aboriginal Self-Government
FRENCH-ENGLISH RELATIONS POST WWII
• Quiet Revolution
• Separatism and Parti Quebecois
• October Crisis and FLQ
• Constitution Crisis
• Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords
CANADIAN/AMERICAN RELATIONS POST WWII
• Autopact
• NAFTA
• Problems between neighbours
• Terrorism
GENERAL TOPICS/THEMES
It was highly stressed during this course that historical understanding is more
important than the mere regurgitation of dates and facts. Remember we are
looking at Canada’s growth as a nation in this course; our evolution in various
ways throughout the Twentieth Century. The following is a list of themes we
discussed throughout the course that you should keep in mind as you study and
may come in handy for greater exam success, especially for the series of
paragraphs:
• War and Peace
• Economic and Social Change
• French/English Relations
• Canadian/American Relations
• International Relations
Please Note: It is very important that you review all of the Prime Ministers during
the Twentieth Century. Become familiar with the important events that
surrounded them and you should learn the order in which they were Prime
Minister. This will come in handy at various points during the exam.