Diploma Part A/B events

Question 1

The roaring twenties

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Cold war

Answer 2

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)

Question 3

Proxy wars

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

The great depression: Social effects

Answer 4

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.)

Question 5

USSR: difference between the 1917 February and October revolution.

Answer 5

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)

Question 6

Hitlers rise / events that led to the Holocaust

Answer 6

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

Question 7

The great depression: how did it start

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Stock market crash of 1929 summarized

Answer 8

• 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.

Question 9

What were some of the factors that caused the stock market crash of 1929

Answer 9

1) Overproduction in key industries
2) Lack of global buyers
3) Baby Boom after WWI

Question 10

USSR: Difference between War communism and the new economic policy (they are opposites)

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Orange revolution

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

What was EuroMaidan

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Examples of monopolies

Answer 13

1) Apple vs Blackberry

2) Google

Question 14

Rights and freedoms

Answer 14

• Freedom of association
• Freedom of press
• Freedom of mobility
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of PEACEFUL assembly

Question 15

Hong Kong (case study for civil disobedience)

Answer 15

• 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.

Question 16

Illberlism: When was the war measures act used? and what is it?

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

True or False: The war measures act was replaced with the emergency act in 1988

Answer 17

True

• The war measures act violated more civil liberties than the emergency act and was a more reasonable approach to handling national emergencies.

Question 18

Illberlism: When was the emergency act used? and what does it do?

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

U.S Patriot act

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What are some events you could use for security and surveillance sources / arguments

Answer 20

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)

Question 21

What are some events you could use for Need For government

Answer 21

• 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

Question 22

What are some events you could use for civil disobedience

Answer 22

• 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

Question 23

What are some events you could use for social welfare / benefits of govenrment

Answer 23

• 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.

Question 24

What are some events you could use for capitalism/ less govt/ privatisation/ classical liberalism

Answer 24

– 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)

Question 25

Keynesian economics: what should the government do during a recession?

Answer 25

During times of recessions the government should lower taxes and spend more money.

The government should spend more money and invest in healthcare and infrastructure to create employment opportunities for individuals.

Question 26

Sweden’s Democratic Socialism

Answer 26

Sweden / a democratic society believes in everyone being equal and have no room for racism or discrimination of class. They have a developed relationship capital and labour interest groups (means of production) that is overseed by the government to resolve any conflict between the factions.

Question 27

What are some events you could use for the imposition of liberal values.

Answer 27

• White Paper (Pierre Trudeau proposed to abolish treaties and other agreements made between the indigenous people and the government to help eliminate division and bring them into mainstream society however the indigenous population value collectivism whereas western democracies have more of a individualist focus societies even with social services)

(in the writing mood)

• Residential schools
• American involvement in Afghanistan
• Proxy wars (how they can influence ideological outcomes by supporting a side)
• Cold War (How the U.S was trying to promote liberl values in Berlin -West)
• Bay of PigswhenU.S invaded Cuba becuase Cuba was communist.

Question 28

What are some events you could use for illiberalism

Answer 28

• Freedom convoy - emergency act
• October crisis (1970) - War measures act
• No fly list
• World war one and two - War measures act (the use of concentration camps and the need to carry identification)
  -Conscription Crisis

Question 29

What was forged from the industrial revolution

Answer 29

due to the harsh conditions throughout the industrial revolution Welfare capitalism was introduced to give workers protections and employers guidelines and restrictions regarding what they could ask of their workers.

Question 30

What was forged out of the great depression

Answer 30

Welfare state (which probably helped steer people away from communism)

Question 31

Conscription Crisis

Answer 31

• 1917
• Mandatory military service for men
• Resulted in large protests and riots
• Military was called in to restore order and ended with 5 civilian deaths

Question 32

The Industrial Revolution

Answer 32

Before the industrial revolution there was the domestic system = the simple farm life where people did what they had to to get by but nothing more.

-The industrial revolution was characterized by Capitalism.

Capitalism can be a pro du to the fact that it encourages individual motivation and prevents government reliance and lazy charastics.

-Pros =
1) Introduced great inventions and new innovative machines to make work simpler.
2) Productivity skyrocketed in agriculture, transportation, and capital/commercial areas
3) Teaching individuals the values of hard work and instilling in traits of independence and resilience. People were not relying on the government for solutions, they were thinking innovatively and making a better life for themselves with these new inventions that would make work easier and more productive. Would make a nation. be able to stand strong and knowledgeable instead of lazy and reliant.

• Cons
  1) People lost their jobs because they were being replaced by machinery. (Whole reason Luddites destroyed mechanies)
  2) Factories were dangerous and had little safety regulations, especially dangerous for young workers.
  3) Long work days
  4) Poor pay

(All these issues for the most part are addressed in the factory act which comes in the later days of the industrial revolution)

Robert Owen saw these struggles and ran his factories in a more human way with child care options and reasonable work days (factories wont very successful)

Question 33

What were the two Government responses to the great depression? and how were they different?

Answer 33

U.S = New Deal
- The New Deal proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed to relieve some of the hardships caused by the great depression through social programs and public work projects.

Canada = Commonwealth Federation
- The Commonwealth federation assisted individuals who were struggling to stay a float in a capitalist society by incorporating more public ownership.

Question 34

Who are the people to bring up when talking about need for social welfare and public (government) services

Answer 34

• Robert Owen
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Rousseau ( believed capitalism corrupted people)
• Barack Obama - Popular democratic so

Question 35

What were the Main goals of Barack Obama’s Democratic Party (elected 2008)

Answer 35

• Associated with progressive (social and political reform/change) policies
• Supported social and economic equality, therefore favoring government intervention to help with distribution of wealth
• Promoted the idea of universal health care through the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.

Question 36

what does Distribution of wealth mean and progressive tax?

Answer 36

Meaning economic equality through progressive tax.

Progressive tax = depending on how much you make is what determines your tax bracket which results in the percentage of taxes you pay.

Question 37

Democratic socialism vs. Welfare State supporters

Answer 37

Democratic socialism: Sweden has a democratic socialist society, where the means of production are owned collectively alongside a democratic government as well as private ownership. It’s a blend . This system allows for great social services and individual care, allowing increased production levels due to everyone being taken care of.

Welfare State: Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the foundation for a modern welfare state through the New Deal during the great depression giving individuals assistance and access to various welfare programs. Barack Obama also set out to provide America with universal healthcare by laying the foundation with Obamacare or Accessible Care Act.
Welfare sate is any nation that looks out for their citizens through welfare programs

Question 38

What was Obamacare or The Affordable Care Act

Answer 38

• Act promoted by Barack Obama that gave individuals protected and more accessible healthcare.

Question 39

Events to use in a source talking about feminism

Answer 39

• John Stuart Mill - MInority groups could contribute to society if given a chance he saw more value in women compared to the other philosophers of his time.
• Disagree with Edmund Burke
• Suffergettes