Diploma Part A/B events Flashcards
(39 cards)
The roaring twenties
During the roaring twenties there was a great fear of the expansion of communism.
- The first red scare = refers to the public fear of communism.
- Regina Riot = Meeting of angry workers during the great depression. Fear of the rise of communism in Canada.
Cold war
1) Iron Curtain = Line between Europe’s communist countries of the east and the self-governing countries of the west. (remember west europe was like th ewild wild west where everyone had freedom like in america western old timey)
- Yalta conference was a meeting to redraw the map with the big three (stalin, roosevelt, and churchill)
Proxy wars
Conflict where one or more third parties support one or more sides in effort to influence the ideologic outcome of the conflict in a way that benefits them.
Also a way of indirectly fighting/ showing oppostion to a country.
The great depression: Social effects
1) Poverty
2) Poor conditions made people frustrated
3) People threw their support behind communism because it seemed like a more secure form of society
4) The commonwealth federation was founded in Calgary
5) Relief camps opened (single men were struggling the most because employers were more sympathetic towards men with families to feed.) (they were not allowed to form committees or unions within the camps because the government was trying to remain in control.)
USSR: difference between the 1917 February and October revolution.
February = WWI worsened conditions so Russians and the army rallied together to get the Czar to abdicate the throne. (Old one out of the way)
October = Lenin and the bolsheviks establish the Communist party of Russia / The Soviet Union.
(here comes the new)
Hitlers rise / events that led to the Holocaust
1) Weimar Republic = Democratic Democracy that had a president who could have all the power in states of emergency.
- FAILURE due to the inability to gain people’s trust which was due to the economic damage from the war + the misfortunes of the treaty of versailles.
- Hitler used the peoples suffering and made hopeful promises to gain support.
2) Enabling act = Granted hitler power to rule by decree
3) Night of Long Knives = Hitler had all individuals who opposed the Nazi party killed.
4) Nuremberg laws = Restricted civil rights and freedoms of jewish people
5) Kristallnacht= Violence to repress jewish business
6) Final Solution= Holocaust
The great depression: how did it start
After the stock market crash of 1929 when individuals had lost their life savings and had to give up other valuable prospects to stay above the poverty line.
WORST economic downturn of the industrialized world
Hitler used the economic tragedy to gain support for the nazi party which ultimately led to WWII and gave people jobs and a new tragedy to lift them out of the depression.
Stock market crash of 1929 summarized
- Stocks continued to go up so people continued to buy stocks and take loans out of the bank. Even the banks was investing money.
- When the stock market dropped people lost their life fortunes.
What were some of the factors that caused the stock market crash of 1929
1) Overproduction in key industries
2) Lack of global buyers
3) Baby Boom after WWI
USSR: Difference between War communism and the new economic policy (they are opposites)
War communism = The elimination of private property and the introduction of complete government control. Even having to give up a portion of their food to the state.
New Economic Policy= Allowed some private ownership, including private businesses where they got to keep a portion but also pay heavy taxes to the government.
Orange revolution
Back story: Ukraine was once a satellite state of Russia so ethnicity is mixed with Russians and Ukrainians and this makes for a complicated society because ukrainians generally value liberalism and Russians value anything to do with an alliance with Russia.
How it started =
1) Election between
YUSHCHENKO ( Ukrainian supported)
&
YANUKOVYCH (Russians supported)
2) Yushchenko won
3) However in 2010 Yanukovych ran again and his opposition appointment Yulia Tymoshenko was arrested for “corruption” - but was mainly to make sure she kept quiet and to give Yanukovych power.
4) EuroMaidan = Yanukovych had mislead the public on an economic deal to align with the european union which is what the people wanted to be closer to europe and farther from russia.
5) Protests and violence - Armed forces were brought in and ordered to shoot the protesters.
6) Protests ended up being successful and Yulia was released, and a new election was called.
What was EuroMaidan
When Viktor Yanukovych had mislead the public on an economic deal to align with the european union which is what the people wanted to be closer to europe and farther from russia.
Lead to violent protests and civil unrest
Examples of monopolies
1) Apple vs Blackberry
2) Google
Rights and freedoms
- Freedom of association
- Freedom of press
- Freedom of mobility
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of PEACEFUL assembly
Hong Kong (case study for civil disobedience)
- Liberal democratic government operating independently from national communist nation of China
- They have in agreement that dates back to when they were released from the brits.
Illberlism: When was the war measures act used? and what is it?
ALLOWED GOVERNMENT TO BYPASS HOUSE OF COMMONS AND SENATE AND RULE BY DECREE
Used during the October crisis of 1970
- FLQ was a terrorists group who were determined to protect the French Language within Canada. Used series of bombing and violent protests to communicate the importance of the french language. The war measures act was put into effect and the FLQ was banned and more than 500 people were arrested without warrant.
True or False: The war measures act was replaced with the emergency act in 1988
True
- The war measures act violated more civil liberties than the emergency act and was a more reasonable approach to handling national emergencies.
Illberlism: When was the emergency act used? and what does it do?
Used during the 2022 Freedom Convoy
Freedom Convoy Truckers Blockade in 2022 was to protest against the Covid-19 vaccination mandates at the time. People felt these mandates were unnecessary and an imposition of their rights and freedoms as Canadians. The use of the emergency act allowed Federal Judges believed it infringed upon the protesters rights to peaceful assembly and that they never threatened the government’s sovereignty of Canada. As well as there needs to be evidence of threat towards th ecivilan population
(allows illiberalism) Allows the government to take temporary measures to deal with a national threat. Allows the suspension of liberties in order to deal with a national issue. However there is a certain threshold that needs to be met in order to use the emergency act. The government needs to be threatened of losing sovereignty (power or control) over/of the nation and that was not met during the freedom convoy.
U.S Patriot act
Allows for many actions that are concern individuals for their privacy and civil liberties
Allows for actions that violate personal pricy and exceed the necessary precautions needed to ensure national security.
- Non-citizens can be held without charge if there was any reason to believe they could be a threat
- Threshold lowered to deport immigrants
- Threshold lowered to
- Internet servers can disclose of customer records to the government.
- Extensive screening
- intricate devices that can intercept phone calls
What are some events you could use for security and surveillance sources / arguments
Say how the author would disagree or agree with any of these
- Edward Snowden
- U.S Patriot act
- Use of emergency act during 2022 freedom convoy
- Use of War measures Act during 1970 October Crisis
- No-fly list
- Anti-terrorist Act
- Hitlers Fasict government (telegrams and phonecalls were no longer private, and used Secret police called gestapo)
- Hitlers secrect police called gepstapo
- Security cameras and surveillance being useful to limit threats (ex health insurance shooting)
What are some events you could use for Need For government
- Thomas Hobbes
- Government services / social welfare services such as relief camps during the great depression
- Edmund Burke
- No-fly list
- Anti-terrorism act (keeps or nation safe)
- Fascist governments / ideologies that fit
- Different kinds of government such as representative.
- Sherman anti-trust act ( act that prevents monopolies)
- DART (Disaster assistance Recovery Team)
- New Deal
Commonwealth Federation
What are some events you could use for civil disobedience
- Martin Luther King Jr
- Orange revolution
- Any kind of protest including trucker convoy
- Civil rights movement in general
- The Five year plan - How Stalin funded this mission by confiscating and selling the crops grown by peasants to other countries. People resisted by killing their livestock so they couldn’t take anything from them.
- Luddites
What are some events you could use for social welfare / benefits of govenrment
- Robert Owen
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Relief camps during the great depression
- Factory Act
- Luddites (distressed workers who were mad about the working conditions)
- Unions
- Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire - because they did not have the proper precautions or conditions did not meet safety standards (that’s why we need social welfare and workers rights)
- Same with the great depression - how capitalism backfired.
- Commonwealth federation
- ** New Deal** - U.S response to the great depression and it focused on creating more social programs and public work projects.
What are some events you could use for capitalism/ less govt/ privatisation/ classical liberalism
– Neo-conservatism (the renewal of classical liberalism)
- Adam Smith (invisible Hand)
- Support the US during the cold war
- Mccarthyism (good one to us if the source is directly dissing communism)
- Negative freedom
- Ronald Reagan
- Margaret Thatcher (less govt intervention in the economy)
- Harding (president who campigned for the return to narmalicy through isolationism and less govenrment intrervention)
- Coolidge (laizez-faire)
- Milton friedman
- Friedrien Hayek the economist (also agreed with Adam Smith use him as a bones example)
