Day 60: Spying and the Cold War

Iron Curtain notes: CLICK to print

Have a restful, relaxing and fun break with family and friends.

See you in 2015.

Only 20 more classes together!

Day 58 - 59: WW2 movie

Day 58 & 59: Life is Beautiful.

Current event - the Taliban massacre 140+ students in a high school in Pakistan: Click to play (CTV National news)

Finish the sheet on the Wars during the Cold war (blue sheet)

Day 57: WWII test

WW2 test today.

For any students interested in knowing what happens with the news, CBC is offering a one day session for students to take part in a fun day at CBC studios.

Grade 10-12 students
CBC - reporting/media
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Time: 10am - 3:30pm
Email to register (spots limited): vancouverevents@cbc.ca

Day 56: Cold War begins

Hand back assignments

Justin - presentation on Ottawa law trip

Handout: Canada from 1940 - 2000.  Topics to be covered for the remainder of the year

United Nations notes:CLICK to print

Crash Course (John Greene): Cold War Click to watch

Cold war notes

Handout: Not So Cold Wars (complete by Friday)

• Korean War
• Suez Canal Crisis
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Vietnam War

Day 55: Japan surrenders and WW2 review

Current events: CIA torture report

CPH: War Machine - review of the impact on the Canadian economy

Pg 149: Japan surrenders

CPH: Price of Victory

Review Jeopardy

WW2 test on Tuesday.

Only 4 more classes left before the break!

Day 54: After D-Day and VE day

Current events: Jean Beliveau's funeral.  Who was he?  Why was he important?
                       : Storm surge hits BC

Pg 147/48.  What was Canada's contribution after the success attacking Juno Beach on D-Day?

• Battle of the Scheldt
• Battle of the Rhineland
• Liberating the Netherlands
• VE Day in Europe (was still going on in the Pacific with Japan)

Overhead sheet: Canada: the War at Home.  Point form for how Canada was impacted

• Politics and government
• Economy
• Society and identity change
• Autonomy and world presence

Also point form for how Canada developed POLITICALLY/SOCIALLY/ECONOMICALLY was a result of WWI AND WWII.

Pg 152: Crimes against Humanity.  Looking at the Holocaust (Youtube: "original Nazi Concentration Camp Video Uncensored - part 2)

CPH: A Rip in the Fabric
CPH: Of Elephants and Chickens

Day 53: Dieppe, Italian Campaign and D-Day

MC review questions

Concept: Counter-factual history.  How might history have turned out differently if:
ex. Hitler had never come to power
ex. Germany was successful in capturing Britain during operation Sea Lion
ex. the Japanese had managed to destroy all US naval ships at Pearl Harbour

CPH: "The Dispossessed"  Looking at the Japanese Canadians in BC who were sent to internment camps.
Should todays government be responsible for the injustices of past governments?

Handout: Dieppe, Italian Campaign and Crimes against humanity

Read page 146-148 D-Day.  June 6, 1944.  Canadians were responsible for attacking Juno beach.

Clip: opening scene for launch on D-Day. 

Day 52: Battle in the Atlantic and Pacific

Current events: a look at race relations in the US.  US policeman uses illegal choke hold - suspect dies.  Protests in the US

Canada's contribution to the Battle in the Atlantic and the battle in the air.

CPH: "A miserable, rotten, hopeless life"
Corvettes and convoys vs. German wolfpacks (U-boats)

War in the Pacific: Japan bombs Pearl Harbour on Dec 7, 1941.  USA enters the war

In-class debate on Japanese internment

Day 51: Canada's Total War Policy

Canada's entry into WWII
Total war (economy.  Meeting wartime demands)
Recruiting soldiers.  BCATP.  National Resources Mobilization Act (allows for conscription).  "Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.

Maps of Europe:
a) Blitzkrieg (1939-40)
b) Battle of Britain (Aug to Oct 1940)
c) Operation Barbarossa
d) Hitler tastes defeat (1942-43)

CPH: Canada Goes to War

Worksheet section on the back: Canada's contribution to the war effort

CPH: The Razor's Edge

CROSSWORD assignment in class.

WW2 Quiz on Tuesday, December 16th

Day 50: Axis advances

Finished presentations.

CPH: Mr. King goes to Berlin
(Rise of fascism in Spain, Italy and Germany.  King fears another war.  Nazi Germany starts to persecute Jews - Krystallnacht "crystal night".  Jewish immigrants to Canada is very limited/refused)

Handout and map.  Do the readings and mapping for the entire front side of the sheet:

• Axis Advances (p. 133)
• Evacuation at Dunkirk (p. 133)
• Battle of Britain (p. 134)
• North-African Campaign (p. 134)
• Operation Barbarossa (p. 135)

Day 49: presentations

Very entertaining presentations today!

Day 48: 20s/30s presentations

Adjusted bell schedule today and tomorrow (60 minutes).

20s/30s presentations today.

Please print the following notes on WW2 for Friday: CLICK HERE

Causes of WW2 notes: Please print

Day 47: Causes of World War 2

Rise of Totalitarianism (pg. 120 - 123).

YouTube clip on the Rape of Nanking: Click to watch

Class activity: Find someone who knows something about WW2

Most influential person of the 20th century?

A look at Adolf Hitler

Handout: Definitions for Chapter 5, and notes on causes of WW2

• Appeasing Hitler
• Soviet-Nazi non-aggression pact
• failure of the League of Nations
• Rise in Fascism

Handout questions:

• Canada's response to the threat of War (p. 127-129)
• Canada declares war (p. 130-131)

Day 46: Politics of protest. Depression and global politics

Went over government response to the depression.
Politics of protest (viewing notes).  Pg 106/107

CPH: Era being born (jazz era of the 30s and Canadian lifestyle/pop culture)
        : Dear Mr. PM (a look at what PM Bennett did to help during the depression)

Federal - provincial tensions.  Read pg 110.  Question #3,4

Inclass: Ch 3/4 multiple choice review assignment (26 marks)

Depression and Global politics.  Pg 114/115.  Answer questions #2,3,4

Clip and powerpoint: Japanese aggression prior to WW2.
Looking at Japanese in Manchuria and the Rape of Nanking

Day 45: WWI test and projects

WWI test.

Time for projects.

20/30s project presentations next Wednesday/Thursday.