Day 69: Canada's foreign policy in the Cold War

Current events related to human geography (standards of living.  education.  developing vs. developed country.  human rights).  CLICK TO READ ARTICLE

Cuban Missile Crisis.  Current events - Obama and Castro have a historic meeting in Cuba.  CLICK TO WATCH

JFK assassination conspiracy: CLICK TO WATCH
JFK assassination animated: CLICK TO WATCH

Debate: Next Tuesday, June 7th
Topic 1: Are weapons of mass destruction ever justified? (150/151)
Topic 2: Is war necessary to maintain/establish peace

Follow the rubric.  Work on your points for and against.  Typed.  Do research and apply historical events to your argument.

Canada's Foreign Policy in the Cold War: CLICK TO PRINT NOTES

Day 68: Cuban Missile crisis, Vietnam War and Canada's role during the Cold War

Post war:
a) Rebuilding of economies after WW2 (Marshall Plan)
b) Creation of the United Nations
c) Superpower agendas
d) Creation of two military

Igor Gouzenko.   (page 190).  "Red Menace"
Canada's role during the Cold War.
Canada's commitment to NATO.  NORAD and North American Defence.  Pinetree line, Mid-Canada Line, DEW Line.  Canada's relationship with the US during this time - a delicate balance.

CPH: Gouzenko
CPH: Seeing Red.  Lester Pearson.  Cold War.  NATO.  Korean-War.  Red Scare
CPH: In the Shadow of a Nuclear War.  NORAD.  Avro Arrow/Bomarc missile.  Voice of Women.  Cuban missile crisis.  Pearson as PM 1963.

Read and make notes on Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam War (228)

Debate rubric handed out.

Comprehensive Cold War notes: CLICK TO VIEW/PRINT

Day 67: Canada's role in UN conflicts

Finished oral WW2 interviews.

What was Canada's response to modern conflicts?
Describe Canada's involvement in the UN?
What was Canada's involvement in the Cold War.  Pages 271-279.
Peacekeeping:

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

Only 17 more classes left in the school year.

Prepare for your provincial exam!

Day 66: Korean war and Suez Canal Crisis

WW2 oral exams.

Worksheets: Korean War and Suez Canal Crisis

Page 196.  Questions #1-3

Rise of Suburbs/Post war prosperity worksheet.

Continuing with oral exams tomorrow.

Day 65: United Nations and beginning of the Cold War

Went over answers to the MC review

D-day: a look at Saving Private Ryan.
Canada's role after D-Day.  Liberating N. Europe.

United Nations notes.
un.org (have a look at the website).  Key issues.  What is the UN responsible for.  Location of main offices.  Identifying 5 cool job opportunities through the UN.  Latest news.
Role of the UN (previous provincial exam question: Explain Canada's role in the United Nations from 1945 to 2000).

Looking at Chapter 6: Notes on the Iron Curtain.
NATO vs. WARSAW PACT.

Billy Joel: We Didn't Start the Fire CLICK TO WATCH

WW2 Oral interviews tomorrow.

Day 64: In class write and WW2 review

Only 20 more days left in 2nd semester.

Start reviewing for your provincial exam!
CLICK FOR LINK TO SOCIALS 11 PROVINCIAL PRACTICE EXAMS

Group project results handed back.  If you have questions please come see me.

In class topic write (12 marks).

Notes: United Nations CLICK TO PRINT
Handout: United Nations CLICK TO READ
Notes: Iron Curtain CLICK TO PRINT
Handout: Terms of the Cold War CLICK TO VIEW

Handout: In class work.  27 multiple choice questions on WW2.  Write down the page # in the margin.

On the back of the sheet, create a mind map on the political/social/economic impact on Canada during WW2.

Day 63: WW2 presentations

• Holocaust
• Atomic bomb

Multiple Choice provincial questions

Italian Campaign.

Wrapping up the war

CPH: Sacrifice and Secrets (NWT uranium mine)

CPH: On the Attack (Air force bombing, Italian campain and Ortona)

In class topic write on Tuesday.

Oral exam for WW2 on Thursday.

Study your material.

Day 62: WW2 presentations

• Dieppe Raid
• Japanese Internment
• D-Day

Day 61: WW2 presentations

• Battle of Britain
• Attack on Pearl Harbour
• Battle of Hong Kong

Day 60: Start of WW2 and presentations

Start of WW2.
Canada's entry into the war.
Class notes: War on the home front

Canada's response to the threat of war (127-129).
Canada declares war (response to war.  King.  BCATP.  CD Howe.  Economy.

Axis advances (page 133).  Who are the axis/allied countries?
Phony war.
Evacuation at Dunkirk.

Student presentations: Rape of Nanking.  Hitler.

Day 59: We Were Children

Discuss First Nations issues over the past half century.

From the Indian Act and Residential Schools up to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission website: CLICK TO VIEW

Notes on First Nations: CLICK TO PRINT

We Were Children.

Answer movie reflection sheet

Ch 8. Explain the importance of: Assembly of First Nations.  Specific land claims.  Comprehensive land claims.  The Nisga'a Treaty.  The Delgamuukw decision.

Presentations next week.

Day 58: First Nations

Residential schools: simulation circle

Review of Indian Act.  Reserves.  Residential schools.  Assimilation policy.  "Kill the Indian in the child."
Government apology.
Truth and Reconciliation commission.

Current events in Attawaspikat
Trudeau's cabinet includes First Nations 
PM Trudeau makes 5 promises to First Nations

Handout: First Nations

• Cultural extinction
• Joe Capilano
• Aboriginal peoples and WWI
• The struggle to preserve an Identity
• Aboriginal peoples during the Great Depression
• Aboriginal communities in transition
• Case study: The High Arctic Relocation
• Decades of inaction

Starting to watch: WE WERE CHILDREN

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WW2 Presentations for next week

1. Rape of Nanking: CLICK TO VIEW
2. Hitler: CLICK TO VIEW
3. Battle of Britain: CLICK TO VIEW
4. Pearl Harbor: CLICK TO VIEW
5. Battle of Hong Kong: CLICK TO VIEW
6. Dieppe Raid: CLICK TO VIEW
7. Japanese Internment: CLICK TO VIEW
8. D-Day: CLICK TO VIEW
9. Holocaust: CLICK TO VIEW
10. Atomic Bomb: CLICK TO VIEW

Ideas for how to be creative for your presentation: CLICK TO VIEW

Day 57: Global economics and causes of WW2

WWI tests handed back.
Went over 1930s Qs.
Collected in mind map.

Pg 110.  Rowell-Sirois report.  #4 on page 110

CPH: The End of the Line (Roosevelt and New Deal, Canadian labour camps, Vancouver strike, On-to-Ottawa Trek)

WW2 scavenger hunt.

Depression and Global Politics (page 114-115)
Germany after the war
Depression in Asia
Russians embrace communism

CPH: Mr. King Goes to Berlin (Spain, fascism, King's visit to Hitler

Notes on Causes of World War 2: CLICK TO PRINT

Projects begin on Monday.  Class study guide should have been sent to me already.
Make sure to have your timed and typed presentation plan for the project.

Day 56: Wrapping up the 1930s

Review of Solutions to the Depression (pages 101-107)
Federal government response (tariffs.  $ for work programs.  laissez-faire gov't involvement)
CCR and Social Credit
Provincial response (Pattulo)
Union Nationale (Maurice Duplessis, Quebec Nationalism, Successful?)

CPH: Drought on the Prairies
CPH: Dear Mr. Prime Minister (RB Bennett and letters to him from impoverished Canadians)

Handout: multiple choice questions.

Backside mindmap: "What were the causes, effects, and responses to the Great Depression?"

A fun look at the Charleston dance from the 1920s: Click to watch and learn

WW2 projects now beginning on Monday, May 16th.

Day 55: Solutions to the depression

Review of causes of the depression

Recent housing crisis and recession.
The Big Short: CLICK to watch the movie trailer
Explanation of the subprime mortgage crisis: CLICK to watch

Images of how people were suffering during the Great Depression.

CPH (opening): Work.  R.B. Bennett, wheat, William Lyon mackenzie King
CPH (Descent into chaos): Vagrancy, relief, Newfoundland

Page 100.  #1, 2a, 3, 6

INFOGRAPHIC: comparing the Great Depression to the recent recession CLICK TO VIEW

Notes for solutions to the Great Depression: CLICK TO PRINT

Day 54: Causes of the Great Depression

Disaster in Fort McMurray.  CLICK TO WATCH

Human geography essays handed back: more detail.  elaborate on your thoughts.

Fun look at slang of the 1920s

Review MC Q's of the 1920s

Create own mind map for review: Changes in the 1920s (political, economic, social)

CPH: opening vignette (Hard Times)

Chapter 3 handout: Causes of the Great Depression (Overproduction, Economic dependence on Exports, Tariffs and US protectionism, Debt from WWI, Speculation and the stock market crash)

Work on your projects!

Day 53: WW2 project work

Creativity?
How will you get the class involved?

Typed study guide due to me at the end of the day on Monday, May 9th.
(see criteria)

Presentations begin on Wednesday, May 11th.

Day 52: WWI test and Canada's growing independence

WWI test.

Finish worksheet:  Canada's growing independence

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

 Vancouver 30 years ago.  A look back to EXPO 86 and how Vancouver has changed.  CLICK TO WATCH

Project time tomorrow...be productive!

Day 51: Roaring 20s and growing American influence

Due today: Annotated Bibliography

Project rubrics handed out.

WWI test tomorrow.

CPH: Winnipeg General Strike

Handout: Changes in Canada during the 1920s (mobility, innovations, Group of Seven, Emily Carr, American pop culture, Canadian literature, sports)

Missing the roar: Agnes Macphail, Mary Ellen Smith, Helen MacGill, Emily Murphy, Persons Case of 1929, Famous 5.

A new challenge to federalism: Regionalism (77-78)

Handout: Canada's changing economy (shifting from Britain to the US).  Branch plants.  Tariffs.  Primary and Secondary industry.

Canada's growing independence (80-83).

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