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A walk through history....this is what former grade 11 students faced.

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ESSAY PREP

  Below are some possible topics for the essay portion of your final. Write each title on separate page, and take notes.

• 1 - Identify the external and internal events that have created Canadian identity/independence.(ethnic identity, community , Canada and the US, Canada-Third World)
  

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• 2 - Describe relationship between French and English Canadians throughout 20^th century.

• WWI/WWII conscription anti conscription riots 1918 (WWI)
  • Quebeckers resented conscription  felt no ties to Britain
• Union Nationale  French Canadian Party
• Quiet Revolution (1960's) modernize Quebec less church influence, stronger more independent economy
• Levesque forms PQ (very nationalist)
• FLQ terrorist group mailboxes to the kidnapping of James Cross and Pierre LaPorte.  Trudeau responds with War Measures Act (Oct crisis, 1970)
• PQ pushes for referendum to be independent (1980)
• The Night of Long Knives  Quebeckers (Levesque) feel betrayed
• Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accord
• 1995 Referendum

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• 3 - Outline the development of the Canadian welfare state.

• Rise of unions in 1920's (OBU) demanding better working conditions
• CCF party forms during depression
  • Goal  -  to help  -  provide more services
• Relief camps/pogey (Bennett) to help with the Great Depression
• Tommy Douglas (CCF/NDP) Premier of Saskatchewan  -  first to introduce Medicare program
• Prime Minister Pearson credited with nation wide health care and Canadian Pension Plan (CCP)
• Veterans Land Act (after WWII) gave benefits to war veterans

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• 4 - Describe the successes and setbacks of racial intolerance throughout 20^th century.

• Aboriginals  - pushed to reserves and sent to residential school (assimilation policy)
  • Federal Indian Act  government controls lives
  • Didn't get the vote until 1960
  • OKA Crisis - frustrations turned into violent protest/blockade over golf course on burial grounds (1990)
• Early 1900's  - Chinese Head Tax 
  • Restricted immigration for non-Europeans (Chinese Exclusion Act)
• Japanese Canadians were rounded up after Pearl Harbor (Dec 1941) and sent to interment camps, property seized (apology)
• Positives?
  • Immigration policies changed in the 1960's
  • Trudeau introduced "multiculturalism" in 1971
  • Residential schools were closed (Apology)
  • Greater tolerance   

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• 5 - Identify key environmental concerns
•  and then outline how Canadians can reduce impact , ( consider land, water and atmosphere)
• *Include use of protest/pressure groups.(education) (Government approach to Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development)

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• 6 - How successful has the United Nations been with respect to preventing/resolving wars, preventing the spread of disease and/or famine, encouraging friendly relations between countries and developing human rights on a global scale. *Be sure to understand levels of intervention against aggression and organizations to deal with humanitarian side.
• UN created after WWII
• • Replaced League of Nations
  • Canada - original member
  • 2 parts to the UN
    • Stop aggression
      • Talks to condemn
      • Embargoes
      • Military intervention
      • Peacekeeping a large part
    • Help people
      
      
      • World Bank
      • WHO (World Health Organization
      • IMF (loans, etc)
  • created Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Successes:  lots of aid  food, medical to children or areas hit by natural disasters

• Did push back aggressors in Korean War (1950's)
• Did push Iraq out of Kuwait in Gulf War (1990's)
• Did put pressure on South Africa to end Apartheid

Failures  was unable to keep peace during the Korean War

• Unsuccessful in Somalia and other parts of Africa
• Bosnia unsuccessful  Genocide took place
• Darfur unsuccessful  doing little as Genocide is occurring there today

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• 7 - Describe Canada' role in the world arena to solving problems, whether war, poverty, etc.

• Chose to join WW II to stop aggression
• Borden won a seat at the Paris Peace Conference (after WWII) and a place in the League of Nations  goal  collective security
• Canada joined the UN  has been member of the security council many times
• Pearson mediated Suez Canal crisis of 1956  - plus proposed Peacekeepers as a part of the UN  - Canada has since been the only country to be involved in every peacekeeping mission
• Canada joined NATO (military alliance) to stop spread of communism
• The Commonwealth and La Francophonie
  • Former colonies helping other poor former colonies
  • Trudeau  -  "Middle Power" work to improve east-west relations and bridge gap between wealth North and poor South
  • CIDA - Canadian agency that helps developing nations

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• 8 - Understand Canada's political and legal system.
• How Canadians Govern Themselves    (download) 

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• 9 - Famous/Influential Canadian Women

1. Nellie McClung  -  suffragist - Pushed for right to vote  by 1918 (end of WWI) Canadian women able to vote.  * Role in the war.
2. Agnes McPhail   -  1^st woman in the House of Commons (1921)
3. Emily Murphy (part of 'famous 5') push for recognition of women and 'persons' (1929)
4. Emily Carr - famous artist
5. Irene Murdoch - won divorce rights for women in Canada
6. Rosemary Brown - first black woman in Canada to be elected to Parliament
7. Kim Campbell  - 1^st and only female Prime Minister (for a short time, but still a landmark)

 

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