Transcript Unit 2 Test Review

Unit 2 Test Review
( 1929-1945 )
The Great Depression ( p100-125)
World War II ( p 129-177 )
Prime Ministers
• Prime Minister King 1925-30
• Bennett 30-35
• King 35-49
The Great Depression
1929-1939
• Stock Market Crash – overproduction,
buying on margin, raising tariffs
• Drought- wheat prices falling, farmers
leave farms, grasshoppers
• Unemployment – biggest problem
• Political Reactions- King, Bennett, King
• Aberhart, Woodsworth, Duplessis etc.
The Great Depression ( cont )
• USA – The New Deal, FDR
• Germany – Hitler – Nazi ( Nationalist
Socialist party ) , Fascist, full
employment, military economy
• scapegoats – Jews, gypsies, communists,
etc.
World War II
• Appeasment – R, A, S, MA, Cz
• Its on – P, PW, D + N, B + H, F, B of B, R,
PH, HK, D, D-Day, B ( VE day ), the bomb
( VJ day )
Appeasment
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Rhineland – 100,000 troops – 50,000 rifles
Austria – welcomed Nazis
Sudetenland – first ½ of Czechoslovakia,
Munich AGreement – Neville Chamberlain
was promised by Hitler “Peace in our time”
• Rest of Czechoslovakia – just a matter of
time before Hitler takes over the next spot and
war is declared
The WAR
• Poland – Sept 1st, 1939 – blitzkreig – 3
weeks
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Phony War – both sides prepare for war
Denmark and Norway – Apr, 1940
Belgium and Holland – Apr of 1940
France – May of 1940 – 6 weeks
Dunkirk – miracle as 350,000 troops
escape to England to fight another day
The War ( cont )
• Battle of Britain – Hitler is dominating
due to sheer numbers but he changes
tactics – bombs cities and Britain holds
firm
• Russia – Hitler changes his sights to
longtime enemy Communist Stalin
• Battle of Stalingrad – turning point in
eastern front war – Russians start to push
the German back to Berlin
The War ( cont )
• Pearl harbor – japanese attacked Dec 7th,
1941 – brought the USA in to WWII
• Dieppe – failed raid by Can that Allies “learned
from”
• D-Day – successful invasion of Normandy that
established a foothold in Europe for Allies
• Holland – Can helps in the liberation of Holland
• Berlin – Germany is surrounded and surrender
on May 7th, 1945
Pacific War
• Island hopping
• Hiroshima – Aug 6
Nagasaki – Aug 9th
• VJ day ( August 14th, 1945 )
Canada’s homefront
• BCATP
• Conscription Crisis – plebiscite
• women
• War bonds
• Rationing
• Japanese Internment