WW2 Quiz Flashcards
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5-cent Speech
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- When the Opposition demanded that Mackenzie King’s Liberal government should give money to provincial Conservative governments, he saw the demand as a partisan tactic (sabotage, resistance)
- He declared that he would not give such governments a five cent piece for the unemployed.
- Around the beginning of the Great Depression
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Indian Act 1876/Assimilation Policy
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- The Indian Act intended to terminate the cultural, social, economic, and political distinctiveness of Aboriginal peoples by absorbing them into mainstream Canadian life and values
- It defined who was qualified as an Indigenous person and who qualified for the benefits, but it took away their rights to vote.
- Allowed federal government to administer Indian status, local First Nations governments and the management of reserve land and communal monies.
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Truth and Reconciliation
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- The process entails uncovering the truth, identifying the culprits, analyzing the extent of abuses, and fostering new methods of healing and reconciliation.
- Recongnizes how wrong we were and aims to reconcile
- In June 2021, the Government of Canada passed Bill C-5 to make September 30 a federal statutory day
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Statute of Westminister
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- The Statute of Westminster 1931 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets the basis for the relationship between the Dominions (now called Commonwealth realms) and the Crown
- Granted the Dominions full legal autonomy (exercise public policy functions independently of other sources of authority in the state, but subject to the overall legal order of the state)
- Means that Canada now had full legal autonomy
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Persons Case/Famous Five
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- Established the right of women to serve in the Senate. The case was started by the Famous Five, and women were legally recognized as “persons.”
- Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Emily Murphy
- On 18 October 1929, the Privy Council reversed the decision of the Supreme Court. It concluded that “the word ‘persons’ in sec. 24 does include women.” It also found that women are eligible to become members of the Senate.
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Causes of the Great Depression
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- The stock market crash of 1929, the collapse of world trade, government policies, bank failures and panics, and the collapse of the money supply
- The stock market crashed because companies produced too many goods and the prices of the goods went down. There was little demand and too much supply.
- Soon after the crash many businesses went bankrupt, and tens of thousands of Canadians lost their jobs. This made the economy worse.
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On-To-Ottawa Trek
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- A mass protest movement in Canada in 1935 sparked by unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps principally in Western Canada
- It was conducted by riding traincars eastward and people were killed and arrested for the trek to end
- The relief for the Great Depression was given to single unemployed men who were used to construct roads and other public works at a rate of twenty cents per day. The men in the relief camps were living in poor conditions with very low wages
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Relief Camps
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- During the Great Depression, the federal government sanctioned the creation of a system of unemployment relief camps, where in exchange for room-and-board, single men did physically demanding labour
- The government was criticized for establishing the camps rather than addressing the need for reasonable work and wages
- The camps were located in remote areas such as northern Ontario and interior B.C. The men cleared bush, built roads, planted trees and erected public buildings in return for room, board, medical care and 20 cents a day.
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The Social Credit Party
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- The Social Credit Party of Canada (lead by William Aberheart) was a political party that believed the depression would end if people had more money to spend
- He wanted to give every Albertan $25 a month- a “social credit”
- The party governed Alberta for many years, but gradually dissappeared
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The Union Nationale
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- Brought together rebellious Liberals and Conservatives
- Focused on Francophone issues
- Attracted voters because they promised higher minimum wages and a provincially owned hydroelectric system
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Cooperative Union Federation
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- Wanted to dismantle the free enterprise economic system (which they thought had caused the depression)
- Wanted to introduce socialism (an economic system based on the government’s control of the economy so that everyone could benefit)
- Basically wanted to eliminate the domination of one class by another
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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- The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 (Chinese Exclusion Act) was the culmination of anti-Chinese racism and policies, including the head taxes which it replaced
- All Chinese persons living in Canada, even those born here, had to register with the government or risk fines, detainment, or deportation
- Virtually restricted all Chinese immigration to Canada by narrowly defining the acceptable categories of Chinese immigrants
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Facism
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- Extreme authoritarianism and nationalism
- Belief in racial purity or a master race, usually blended with some variant of racism or discrimination against a demonized “Other”
- Characterized by a dictatorial leader, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and/or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
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Totalitarianism
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- A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
- Prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society
- North Korea and Jewish Holocaust
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Policy of Appeasement
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- Means making concessions to an aggressive foreign power in order to avoid war.
- The best known example of appeasement is British foreign policy towards Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
- Britain wanted to avoid war, so they agreed to Germany’s demands to stop agression/war
