Day 63: Canada's foreign policy

Due: We Were Children Journal due

Cold war quiz

Canada's foreign policy during the Cold War (print notes from yesterday)

Post World War 2 notes: Click to print

CPH: "Seeing Red" and "On Guard for Thee"

Debate rubric.  Prepare debate topic for Thursday: "Are weapons of mass destruction ever justified?"

Fun look at wrestling through childhood.

Day 62: Cold War timeline

Purpose of the United Nations (see handouts on previous blog pages)
Canada and UN involvement over the years.
Looking at military conflict (pg 274-279).

• Persian Gulf War
• Genocide in Rwanda
• Disgrace in Somalia
• Civil war in Yugoslavia
• War in Afghanistan
• War in Iraq

Discussion about:

• Rebuilding of the European economy after WW2
• Creation of the UN
• Superpowers agenda
• Creation of military blocs (NATO vs. WARSAW PACT)

Timeline of international events from 1945-2001:
WW2 ends.  UN created.  NATO.  Korean War.  Warsaw Pact.  Suez Crisis.  NORAD.  Vietnam war begins.  Cuban Missile Crisis.  Vietnam War ends.  Berlin Wall falls.  Tiananmen Sq. massacre.  Soviet Union collapses.  Rwanda genocide.  9/11.  Iraq war begins.

Handout: Korean War.  Suez Crisis.  Cuban Missile Crisis.  Vietnam War.
Quiz tomorrow.

Iron Curtain notes: Click here to print

Canada's Foreign Policy notes: Click to print

Day 61: WW2 test

WW2 test today.

Handout: Canada in the Post War Years - A Changing Society

• Rise of the suburbs (170/71)
• Age of the automobile (170)
• Teen culture (172)
• Television and the consumer society (173)
• Protecting Canadian culture (176)
• New face of Canada (177)

Fieldtrip CANCELLED on Friday.

We Were Children Journal: Due Friday

Day 60: Cold war

Oral presentation on events of the Cold War era.

Cold War begins

• Superpowers (USA + USSR)
• Canada's role as a middle power
• Communism vs. Capitalism
• NATO v. WARSAW PACT

CPH: Opening.  Igor Gouzenko reveals a spy ring operating in Canada.  A begin to the Cold War

WW2 test tomorrow.

Day 59: First Nations issues

Aboriginal Affairs after 1960: Click to print

The fight for aboriginal rights.
Specific land claims and Comprehensive land claims.
Self government
Environmental concerns

Movie: We Were Children

Journal topics: Click to print

Cold War terms: Click to print
United Nations notes: Click to print
United Nations handout: Click to print

Day 58: Cold War history through song

We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. Click to watch this montage of images produced by this fan of the song Click here

4 Topics each typed with picture: Oral presentation on Tuesday

Handout: events in Chapters 6-8

Research time on the iPads

First Nations handouts.  Complete for Monday.

Field Trip $ and forms

Day 57: End of WW2

Field trip $

Review of WW2 with Kahoot.

CPH: Sacrifice and secrets (mining of uranium in Northern Canada)

War continues in Japan until the atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Mind map for changes to Canada politically, economically, socially during WW2.  Also look at Canada's impact in the world.

Pg 160 #6.  Canada's impact during various battles.

iPad cart: identify images/impact of concentration camps during WW2, and of impact of the bombing of Hiroshima. 

WW2 test on Wednesday, May 27.

Day 56: Victory in Europe

Overhead map: Defeat of Hitler's army.  Attacked from the south through Italy.  Attacked from the East by Soviet forces.  D-Day invasion through Northern France.

D-day attack.  Saving Private Ryan.

Canada responsible for attacking Juno Beach on June 6, 1944.

Read 146-149:

• Juno Beach
• Battle of the Scheldt
• Battle of the Rhineland
• Liberating the Netherlands
• VE Day (May 8, 1945)
• Japan Surrenders
• The Atomic Bomb
• War Ends (August 14, 1945)

Read page 150-151

Future DEBATE TOPICS.  Create a chart for both questions FOR and AGAINST

a. Are weapons of mass destruction ever justified?
b. Is war necessary to maintain/establish peace?

World War 2 test next Wednesday, May 27th

Day 55: Italian Campaign and D-Day

Review of : Dunkirk, North-Africa Campaign, Dieppe, Italian Campaign, D-Day

CPH: Dieppe
       : On the attack (bombing campaigns.  Italian campaign). 
          Should civilian targets be  bombed during a war? (ex. Dresden, Cologne)

Crossword review

Mind map on "Changes to Canada during WW2" (Make notes.  Look at pages 130-32, 153-56, 158-59)

• politics and government
• economy
• society and identity change
• autonomy and world presence

Bring in FIELD TRIP FORMS AND $ by Thursday.

Day 54: Canadians and WW2 continued

A look at overheads: Blitzkrieg.  Battle of Britain.  Operation Barbarossa. 

CPH: opening vignette + Battle of Britain

Purpose of the non-aggression pact.
A look at Canada's contribution to the war effort: Battle of the Atlantic and war in the air.
Dresden: Is the bombing of civilian targets ever justified? (pg. 139)

Read pg 157: Japanese Canadians.  Answer Q#1.
CPH: "The Dispossessed"  - a look at Japanese Canadian internment

Analyzing primary source documents:  In your groups come up with 3 points FOR/AGAINST the internment

Homework: Complete the handout/reading from yesterday for the DIEPPE RAID (142/143), ITALIAN CAMPAIGN (144), CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (152)

Day 53: Canada in World War 2

Review of reasons for the start of World War 2

Rise of Fascism (totalitarianism).  Great depressions.  Treaty of Versailles.  Appeasement.  Failure of the League of Nations.

Reading pages 127-139.  Follow the reading guide along with notes on "Total War" in Canada.

• Policy of isolationism
• Canada's Response to Jewish Refugees (how else has Canadian government discriminated against ethnic groups?  Chinese Head Tax.  Komagata Maru
• Anti-Semitism in Canada
• SS St. Louis
• Canada Declares for War
• Mobilizing Resources
• BCATP: British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
• Axis and Allies (map)
• Evacuation at Dunkirk
• Battle of Britain
• North-African campaign
• Operation Barbarossa
• War in the Pacific/Pearl Harbour
• Battle of Hong Kong
• Battle of the Atlantic
• Canada's war at Sea

Day 51 & 52: presentations

1920s/30s presentations

Day 50: Causes of WW2

Kahoot.it - review of the 1930s

On-to-Ottawa trek.
Roosevelt's "New Deal"
A Change in Federal government: Bennett ---King
Federal-Provincial tensions: Rowell-Sirois Report or equalization payments

Exercise into WWII (activity sheet)

The Depression and Global Politics: Germany after the war.  The Depression in Asia.  Russians Embrace Communism

Japanese aggression: Rape of Nanking Click to watch

CPH: Mr. King goes to Berlin

Please PRINT the following notes: Causes of World War II

Presentations on Monday and Tuesday.

Day 49: Response and solutions to the Great Depression

A look at pictures from the Great Depression

Review of Prescribed Learning Outcomes: topics to cover

CPH: Descent into chaos (look at how Canadians were affected)

Read Pg 94-100.  Do questions #1,2,3a,6 (pg 100)

Prairie drought.  Unemployment.  Pogey.  Riding the rails.  Disadvantaged (immigrants and Aboriginals).  Women in the 1930s.

CPH: Blown away
        : Dear Mr. Prime Minister

Notes: Solutions to the Great Depression (Federal government response.  Rise of political parties: CCF, Social Credit.  Quebec - Union Nationale.  BC's New Deal (provincial response)

Read 101-104.  #1 - pg 104

Presentations on Monday and Tuesday.

Day 48: Causes of the Great Depression

Current events: 70 year anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands
                       : South African president tattooing HIV/AIDS patients
                       : NDP Majority in Alberta 

Changes to the 1920s: Political/Economic/Social changes

Notes: Causes of the 1930s Great Depression.

Crash course: Great Depression (John Greene)

Worksheet: Causes of the Great Depression

Fun look at 1920s slang words

Day 47: Roaring 20s and Regionalism

Current events journal: Do you think that Canada should implement policy to limit/prevent foreign ownership of homes?  Why/why not?  Relate to the following articles:

Looked at a housing payments using an online mortgage calculator

Australia to tackle high housing prices with fines, jail for illegal foreign home purchases: Click to read

Vancouver lacks effective control over rising house prices, prof says.  Other places use taxes and penalties to control foreign investment: Click to read

Handout: Multiple choice review questions/reading comprehension

Handout: The Roaring 20s

• Increased mobility.  Innovations.  Group of 7.  Emily Carr.  Canadian literature.  Sports
• Women's roles in Canada: Agnes Macphail.  Mary Ellen Smith.  Helen MacGill.  Emily murphy.  Persons case of 1929.  Famous Five.

A new challenge to federalism: Regionalism (77/78)
Concerns of the following regions: Maritimes.  Prairies and Rural Ontario
Quebec.  Western interests

 

Day 46: 1920s

Current events: Princess of Cambridge Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.

Provincial exam essay question:  Discuss the development of Canadian identity from 1914-2000.  Discuss political, economic, social examples.

Chanak Crisis

Halibut Treaty

King-Byng Crisis

Imperial Conference and the Balfour Report

Statute of Westminster

Review of US influence on Canada.

Computer lab: final day to work on the 1920s/30s project.

How can you creatively present your topic.  How can you involve the class.
How can you build an "experience" of what life was like back in the 20s/30s.

Presentations beginning on Thursday, May 7th.

Day 45: Winnipeg General Strike and growing US influence

Current events: Baltimore riots

Winnipeg General Strike (5 key points/timeline)
CPH: Winnipeg General Strike

Handout: Business cycle.

Overhead: a fun look at who we are influenced by.
Canadian?  American?  International?

Handout: Canada's changing economy.  Shifting from Britain to the US (63)

Canada's growing independence (80-83)

• Chanak Crisis
• Halibut Treaty
• King-Byng Crisis
• Imperial Conference and the Balfour Report
• Statute of Westminster

Complete handout for homework.