CHC2D – Unit 3 The 1930’s
REVIEW
TEST DATE: Friday April 15, 2011
Format:
Multi Choice, matching, short answer, long answer
The Great Depression – topics to know
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The Stock Market and in ‘Black Tuesday’ (easy credit, lack of financial regulation,
vulnerable Canadian economy – export based)
Causes of the Great Depression: European Currency
Stock Market Crash
No world demand for Canadian natural resources
King’s response to the needs of the depression – how he thought it would fix
itself
King – Bennett election (1930)
Bennett’s response to the economic crisis: Trade protectionism and tariffs,
imperial preference, response to the unemployment crisis, relief
Relief Camps – riding the rails.
The trek to Ottawa and the Regina riot.
Impact of the Depression, region by region (drought in the prairies)
How people coped.
The Political Spectrum: Communism (L)
(R) Capitalism
Growing popularity of new political / economic ideas and our government’s
reaction to them. ie Socialism, Communism and Fascism
Rise of new political parties: CCF, Social Credit, Union Nationale
Bennett’s New Deal
1935 election – King or Chaos!
Canada moves towards autonomy:
1919 Canada participates in Paris Peace Conference & League of Nations
Chanak Affair
1923 Halibut Treaty, Imperial Conference.
1926 Statute of Westminster and the Balfour Report.
1927-1935 Stronger economic relations with the United States
The Dionne Quintuplets born May 28, 1934
Road to War – Topics to Know:
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The Treaty of Versailles – 1919
Rise of extremism: Who they were and how they did it:
Franco - Spain
Mussolini - Italy
Stalin – Soviet Union
Hitler – Germany
Hirohito – Japan
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
League of Nations and the policy of appeasement: China, Ethiopia,
Czechoslovakia, Poland….
Declarations of War: France, Britain – Sept 3, Canada Sept 10, 1939