Final Exam Flashcards
Robert Borden
-WW1 PM
-War leader
Who was the Red Baron
-Manfred Von Richthofen
-German fighter jet with the most shoot downs throughout war
Sgt. Cedric Popkins
-Australian ground machine gunner
-Real shooter of the Red Baron (Roy Brown is credited however)
Adolph Hitler
-Nazi leader (Germany)
-Preached bringing greatness back to Germany & expansion, anti-semitism
-Angered by the Treaty of Versaille
Woodrow Wilson
-WW1 US President
-Created the league of nations
William L Mckenzie King
-PM of Canada
1921-1926, 1926-1930
Arthur Currie
-General in WW1
-Led Canadian troops to victory at Vimy Ridge
Manfred Von Richtofen
-Pilot of the Red Baron
-German fighter jet credited with the most shoot downs
R.B Bennett
-PM of Canada 1930-1935
-Refused to believe the Great Depression was real
-Public discontent
-Created Gov. relief camps (similar to US “New Deal) in order to put young men to work
Winston Churchill
-British PM during WW2
-known for leading Britain to victory
Franklin Roosevelt
Vladimir Lenin
-Leader of the Bolshevik Party
-Established the USSR (Soviet Union)
-Communist Russia
-Party funded by the USA
Benito Mussolini
-Facist Italian leader
-Had split support
-Hung by his own people
Reinhard Heydrich
-Creator of the final solution of Jewish People (Wannsee Conference)
Heinrich Himmler
-Creator of the Final Solution of how to deal with Jewish People (Wannsee Conference)
-Head of SS & minister of interior
Statute of Westminster
An act that gave Canada more independence from Britian
Munich Pact
-British & French Pm signed an agreement with Germany to give away Czechoslovakia in attempt to advert war
Treaty of Versaille
-Post WW1 treaty
-Made Germany take full responsibility for the war (reparation payments, limited military, giving back European territory)
-Signed in France in a traincar
League of Nations
-One of Wilson’s 14 points
-World wide gov. organization to maintain world peace by discussing issues
Axis Power
-Communist/Facist countries
-Japan, Germany, Italy
Triple Entente
-Britain, France, Russia
Triple Alliance
-Austria Hungary, Germany, Italy, Soviet Union
Non-Aggression Pact
Treaty between Nazi Germany & Soviet Union to not attack eachother
Vimy Ridge
-France
-April 9-12
-Canadians captured after previous successful attempts by French & British
-Led by general Arthur Currie
-First usage of rolling barrage
On to Ottawa Trek
-Men working in Bennett’s relief camps (Poor conditions little pay)
Bennett ordered RCMP
-Trekked to Ottawa, ended in Regina as a result of the Regina riot
-100 striked workers
SImilar to the Freedom Convoy
Persons Case
-Women’s Rights movement for women to legally be regarded as persons
-Supreme court –> privy Council
-Changed the BNA
The Great Depression
-High unemployment
-National gross spending fell
-Birth of political movement
-Depressing tbh
Riding the rails
hopping on the back of trains in offer to relocate to new towns
Chanty towns “Bennett Burbs”
“suburbs” of makeshift poor homes for families that couldn’t afford anything else
D-day invasion
-Canadians covered Juno beach
Studentenland
First part of Cheklosvakia to be invaded by Germans in WW2
Stock Market Crash
-high prices
-People took out their money but bought using loans
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Japan, where the atomic bombs were dropped
1st- Hiroshima
2nd-Nagasaki
Pearl Harbour
-Hawaii, US military base
-Bombed by Japan, immediately bringing the US into WW2
Winnipeg General Strike
-May 15- June 15 1919
-30 000 workers went on strike
-Wanted higher wages and better working conditions
Kristallnacht
“Night of Broken Glass”
-started because of a little boy who shot a Nazi soldier after he had killed his family
-looted businesses and homes
-100 jews killed, 30 000 imprisoned
The Cold War
*A war of ideologies
*Capitalism vs. Commusim
Wannsee Conference
“The Final Solution”
-Take jews by train or cattle car to Auschwitz
-Selection Process: Work to death OR instant death (gas showers)
-Reinhard Heydrich & Heinrich Himmler
Rhineland Territory
-Was supposed to be demilitarized as a result of the Treaty of Versailles
-Hitler later sent Nazi soldiers breaking the treaty
War Measures Act
-Gave gov. extended rights, taking them away from citizens
-Now called the Emergency Act
War Guilt Clause
-Part of the Treaty of Versailles
-Made Germany take full accountability for WW1
Lebensraum
Hitler’s plan for Germany expansion
Enabling Act
-Act passed by Hitler allowing him to pass any law he wanted without having to consult the German cabinet
Zimmerman Telegram
-German telegram, intercepted by British intelligence, brought to US
-Germany trying to entice Mexico to enter the war, in return, Germany would recapture New Mexico, Arizona, Texas
-Brought the US into WW1
Mein Kampf
-Book written by Hitler while he was imprisoned for speaking out against the gov.
-Book about his life morals and beleifs
Imperialism
when a country extends its powers into other economic territories
Lend Lease Act
A system that would allow the US to lend war materials to countries fighting in WW2
Auschwitz
-The final solution: biggest spot for the murder of Jews
-Approx. 1.1m killed
-Killed in showers, 2000 at a time
-Disguised as a train station
Nuremberg Laws
-Laws passed by Hitler to take away the rights of Jewish people
6 Historical thinking concepts
-Primary Source Evidence
-Historical Significance
-Continuity and Change
-Cause and Consequence
-Historical Perspectives
-Understanding moral and ethical dimensions
