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 Depression1929-1939

• 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

• 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

• 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