Mr. Fitton
Social Studies 11
1930s Comprehension Questions
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Date:______
Chapter themes:
1. What caused the depression (Depression Handout)
2. What effect did the Depression have on Canadians?
3. How did the Federal and Provincial governments respond to the Depression?
(Notes, Text and Group Activities)
4. What events in Europe led to World War 2 and what ended the depression?
Desperate Years
1. What were three problems that plagued the prairies from 1928-1936? (94)
2. What was “Pogey?” (95)
3. What is “Riding the Rods (rails)?” (96)
4. Why did people “Ride the Rods?” (96)
Politics of Protest
5. What were conditions like in work camps? How did they contribute to the “On-to-Ottawa Trek”?
Explain the trek and its goal. (102)
6. List other popular protests that occurred during the Depression? (103)
7. Why was the CCF party formed in 1932? What was the Regina Manifesto? (106-107)
8. What did Bible Bill Aberhart’s Social Credit propose to do to end the Depression? What did BCs
Premier, Dufferin Pattullo do to try to alleviate suffering during the Depression? (106-107)
A Change in Government
9. The Rowell-Sirois Commission examined problems of Federal-Provincial relations in 1937. It found
that disputes over which level of government had the right to tax was a major issue. What did the
commission recommend? (110)
10. What were Equalization Payments? What did rich provinces think of them?(110)
Distractions from Despair
11. Why were movies, magazines and radio popular during the Depression? (back) What Canadian
Corporation was formed in 1936 to combat an “American Cultural Invasion”?
12. Who were the Dionne Quintuplets and how were they treated? Who was Grey Owl?(Back)
The Rise of Dictatorships
(There are big ships and little ships, but the best ships are Dictatorships!)
13. Identify 3 Totalitarian Dictators (and their countries) who came to power in the 1920s 1930s (120121)
Germany
14. Why did the German people elect Adolph Hitler in 1933? (121)
15. List four things Hitler did to counteract the effects of the Depression. (121)
16. How did Hitler and the Nazis deal with political opponents (ie: Communists) (122)
17. What was Kristallnacht? Why was it significant? (122)
On the Road to War
18. How did the League of Nations fail China and Ethiopia? (125)
19. Why was Hitler able to take back the Rhineland in 1936 despite the fact that the Treaty of Versailles
declared it to be demilitarized? (125)
20. What stand did Hitler and Mussolini take on the Spanish Civil War? (123)
21. What was the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion? (123)
22. Give three examples of how countries like France and Britain “appeased” Hitler. (125).
23. How did Hitler ensure that Russian would not feel threatened by a German Invasion of Poland? (125)
24. What happened when Hitler invaded Poland on September 3rd, 1939? (130)