HISTORY EXAM NOTES

JANUARY 2013
MATCHING
1920s/30s/NAZI GERMANYBENNETT- Prime minister during the Great
Depression- Good person, bad politician- Gave people money from pocket, not
governmentKING- Prime minister during the Great Depression- Good politician, bad
person- Told people what they wanted to hear- CrazyBEN KERR- Rum runner- Him
and Alf Wheat were murderedHIMMLER- Ran the HolocaustGoebbels- In charge of
German propaganda
Frederick Banting- Discovered insulinGestapo- Official secret German police
HOLOCAUST
- The murder of 6 000 000 Jews and then 6 000 000 other civilians by the Nazis
STATUTE OF WESTMINISTER (1931)
- Made Canada completely self governing- Britain couldn t make laws for Canada
anymore
PROHIBITION
- The banning of production import and transportation of alcohol across the country

WORLD WAR 2
MATCHING
STALINGRAD
- Russians defeat Germans
- One of the turning point battles
D-DAY
- Canadians attack Juno Beach
- Purpose: for Allies to kick Germans out of France
DIEPPE
- Canadians fail to take the German occupied French Port
BLITZKRIEG
- Lightening war invented by Germans
CAMP X
- Spy training camp in Whitby
PEARL HARBOUR
- U.S fleet bombed by Japanese, now in war
AXIS POWERS

- Japan, Germany, Italy

HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI
- Atomic bombs dropped by U.S on these Japanese cities
WINSTON CHURCHILL
- Britain's Prime Minister
MACKENZIE KING
- Canada's Prime Minister
POW
- Prisoner of War
MUNICH AGREEMENT
- Countries given to Hitler to avoid war (appeasement)

ORDERING
WORLD WAR 2
Axis Winning
1. Germany invades
Poland. Canada and
Allies declare war

2. Germany takes France

and Western Europe

3. Battle of Britain

4. Germany invades
Russia, Japan bombs
Pearl Harbour

SHORT ANSWER

Turning Points

Axis Losing

5. El Alamein

8. Allies invade Italy. Dday

6. Stalingrad

9. Canadians Liberate
Northern France and
Netherlands

7. Midway

10. Russia invades

Eastern Germany.
Hitlers suicide. Germany
surrenders
11. Atomic bombs
dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Japan
surrenders

1920S/30S/NAZI GERMANY
NUREMBURG LAWS
- Couldnt marry non-Jews- Couldnt have sex with non-Jews- Jews are not allowed to
have a non-Jew maid under the age of 45- Cant show German nationalism (no wearing
German colors or flags)
JULY BOMB PLOT
Hitler wouldve died if:
. a) Bomb was not moved. By moving bomb to other side of tale leg, table leg
protected Hitler rather than making the blast worse.
. b) Stafenberg didnt put the second bomb in the brief case . The second bomb
wouldve made the blast big enough to kill Hitler even if other bomb wasn t
moved.
. c) If the meeting was held in the bunker instead of the cottage. Blast wouldve
been more contained and powerful.
DEATH PROCESS
1. Jews arrived by train
2. Separated (workers vs. quick death) (men vs. women and children)
3. Undress for the showers Lied to them saying their clothes needed to be disinfected
4. Womens hair cut short (used for mattresses)
5. Then sent to the showers where they are gassed
6. Disposal of the bodies. Jewish workers would take any valuables from the bodies then
buried (later cremated)
RED CROSS TOUR
- Nazis tricked Red Cross that the Jews were being well treated by:
1. Gave them food, made everyone look healthy
2. Let them play sports, do musicals, go to school
3. Dressed them well
4. Followed the Red Cross people and intimidated Jews making sure they said good
things
5. Only old people in the hospitals to make them think everyone else is healthy
STOCK MARKET CRASH/WHY DEPRESSION HAPPENED(business
cycle)
- Stock market crash was when many stocks were selling for more than they
were worth.-When the stock became over valued, some investors realized it
and sold it off (The price went down)
BUT
-people who "bought on margin" (bought stocks on credit) If the stock went
down, the margin buyer had to cover the loss.-Some of these investors has
to sell their stock which put the price down (More margin buyers had to sell)

BUSINESS CYCLE
1. Factories laid their workers off2. People lost their jobs, people had no
money
3. People stopped buying stuff4. Stores not making money as not selling
anything so stores dont buy from 5. Factories had too much product
4. How did government respond to the depression?
factories
HOW HITLER STAYED IN POWER1. PROPAGANDA- government used lies
and tricks to persuade people to do or think a certain way - Hitler made
Triumph of Will film2. BRAINWASHING-No one had a mind of thier ownHad to say "heil Hitler" to everyone you met-Special Nazi events every weekHeadlines in newspapers always emphasized on how bad things were outside
of germany and how great it is in germany- Young people believed Hilter
youth was good-Girls/women should be focused on reproducing3. FEARPunished if people did not do as the Nazis expected- Couldnt say anything or
do anything against the Nazis (Informers everywhere) (Everyone
brainwashed to informing everyone)
EVIDENCE OF HOLOCAUST
1. Nazi and Census records2. Films- Propaganda, Nazi and Allied films3.
Physical evidence- clothing, shoes, hair, ashes, soap, postcards, camps 4.
Witnesses- Survivors, allied soldiers, nazi guards, neighbours to camps 5.
Diaries, letters, photos

SHORT ANSWER
WORLD WAR 2
THE GREAT ESCAPE
Hard to escape because:
1. Random check-ups
2. Huts are lifted a bit above ground so you can't dig
3. Anti-tunneling microphones in the ground so you can't dig
4. Surrounded by guards
Plan:
- 200 guys escape in 1 night through a tunnel
What happened:
- 79 made it out, 50 executed, 3 made it back to the Allies

LONG ANSWER
1930S/20S/NAZI GERMANYPEOPLE DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSIONRICH
AND THE WELL-OFF- group that was most respected- still managed to buy food,
clothes, fancy things- socially acceptedPOOR WORKING PEOPLE- desperate for
money. would do any job for any amount of $ - would sell stuff they love because they

were so desperate- employers didnt get any benefts. god paid close to nothing
WOMEN- treated poorly at work, werent paid well
- long hours, got fred easily- poor because it was very hard to fnd work- bosses would
rape them, if they refused they got fred
ON RELIEF
- hard life, many lived in poverty
- many children, died of malnutrition
- not enough money for clothes or shoes so parents were embarrassed to send them
to
school, so most didnt have an education
- men got mad seeing women working, believed men should work and women in
kitchen
UNEMPLOYED MEN
- no jobs, very poor
- did anything for money
- some evicted from homes
- riding the rods of trains because it was free. 8/10 died
- if you stayed in town you could go to soup kitchens or restaurants would give you
leftovers
- many men went to relief camps- received little money and it was almost slave work
WHEAT FARMERS
- so desperate for money, would do anything
- farmers easily lost jobs because others were willing to do same job for less money left most with
no home work or money to support families
- grasshoppers destroyed crops and everything that wasn t metal
- dust storms would dirty clean well water
- clothes were never clean
- most ended up on relief