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DEPRESSION

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A DOWNTURN IN THE ECONOMY. THE MOST SEVERE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN THE 1930S IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

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PROTECTIONISM

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A SYSYTEM OF USING TARIFFS TO RAISE THE PRICE OF IMPORTED GOODS IN ORDER TO PROTECT DOMESTIC PRODUCERS

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ISOLATIONISTS

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PEOPLE WHO HELD THE BELIEF THAT ONES COUNTRY SHOULD KEEP SEPARATE FROM THE POLITICS AND DISPUTES OF OTHER COMMUNITIES

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FASCIST

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A FORM OF AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT THAT WAS SET UP IN ITALY AND GERMANY BEFORE WWII. THE GOVERNMENT IS FASCIST STATES WAS TOTALIZATION AND NATIONALIST.

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LAISSEZ-FAIRE

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A GAVERNMENT POLICY OF NOT INFERING IN THE WORKING OF THE MARKET ECONOMY BY REGULATIONS OR ECONOMIC POLICES

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HOLOCAUST

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THE GENOCIDE COMMITTED BY THE FASCIST NAZI GAVERNMENT IN GERMANY AGANIST THE JEWS DURING WWII

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APPEASEMENT

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THE GRANTING OF CONCESSIONS IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN PEACE

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EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS

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PAYMENTS MADE BY THE FEDERAL GAVERNMENT TO SOME PROVINCES SO THAT R=THE STANDARD OF LIVING WILL BE MORE UNIFORM ACROSS CANADA

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TOTALIZATION STATE

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AN UNDEMOCRATIC STATE IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT DEMANDS TOTAL OBEDIENCE FROM CITIZENS AND CONTROLS ALL APSECTS OF SOCIETY

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EXPLAIN WHAT IS MEANT BY BUYING “ON MARGIN” HOW MIGHT THIS PRACTICE LEAD TO PROFIT? HOW MIGHT IT LEAD TO FINANCIAL DISASTER? DO PEOPLE HAVE SIMILAR FINANCIAL PRACTICES TODAY? EXPLAIN

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BUY “ON MARGIN” MEANS TO BUY SHARES WITH ONLY A 10% DOWN PAYMENT. IT WAS ASSUMED AT THE RATE THE ECONOMY WAS GOING, SOON THE 90% WOULD BE PAID. IT LEAD TO A FINANCAIL DISASTER BECAUSE PEOPLE STARED TO SELL THEIR STOKES TO CASH-ON HIGH PROFITS. YES WE CASH CHECKS EARLY BUT PAY A COST.

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ALTHOUGH THE STOCK MARKET “CRASH” SIGNALLED THE BEGINING OF THE DEPRESSION, THERE WERE UNDERLAYING CAUSES. EXPLAIN THREE.

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1) THE PRICE OF WHEAT FELL CAUSEING THE WORLD MART FOR WHEAT TO PRODUCE MORE THAN WHAT WAS SOLD. THE FARMERS DEPENDED ON FORGIEN MARKETS.
2) GERMANYS INABILITY TO MEET ITS FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS. THEY OBLIGATED GREAT BRIATIN AND FRANCE TO COMPENSATE FOR THEIR WAR DAMAGES. FRANCE AND GREAT BRIATIAN DEPENDED ON GERMANY TO PAY BACK THEIR OWN WAR DEPTS, OWED TO THE USS
3) PROTECTION BY THE USA OVER TRANSPORTING/ RESEIVEING GOODS. WORLD TRADE SLOWED DOWN.

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WHAT WERE CANADAS TWO MOST IMPORTANT EXPORTS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY? HOW MUCH OF EACH PRODUCT DID CANADA SUPPLY TO THW WORLD MARKET? AS DEMAND FOR THESE PRODUCT DROPPED, WHAT HAPPENED IN CANADA?

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WHEAT FROM PRAIRE PROVINCES
NEWSPRINT FROM BC, ONTARIO AND QUEBEC
40% WHEAT 
65% NEWSPRINT 
WHEN THE DEMAND DROPPED WITHIN A YEAR MILLIONS OF CANADIANS LOST THERE JOBS. SO THE DEMANDING COMPANIES LOST THEIR MONEY FLOW FROM CUSTOMERS
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DESCRIBE THE IMPACT THE DEPRESSION HAD ON CANADIAN LIFE

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A MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION LOST THEIR JOBS. LIVING ON THE STREETS BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT AFFORD RENT. IF THEY NEEDED AN INCOME FOR FOOD, THEY WOULD HAVE TO WAIT IN HUGE LINES FOR HOURS, AND STATE WHETHER THEIR FINANCIAL FAILER AND RESEIVE A VOUCHER FOR FOOD- IT WAS EMBARASSING FOR MANY CANADIANS

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WHAT WERE THE “BENNETT BARNYARDS” AND “BENNETT BLANKETS”? WHO WAS BENNET?

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BENNETT BARNTARDS WERE DESERTED PRAIRE FARMS
BENNETT BLANKETS WERE NEWSPAPERS
BENNETT WAS THE PRIMINISTER

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EXPLAIN THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT WORK CAMPS AND THE ON-TO-ONTARIO TREK

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WORK CAMPS WERE GROUPS OF MEN THAT WOULD WORK ON PROJECTS SUCH AS BUILDING ROADS, CLEARING LAND, DIGGING DRAINAGE DITCHES. THEY WOULD BE PAID 20 CENTS A DAY. THEY WERE ALSO GIVEN ROOM AND BOARD. (VERY ROUGH CONDITIONS) ON-TO-OTTAWA TREK WAS A GROUP OF OVER A THOUSAND MEN THAT PROTESTED AGIANST THE WORK CAMPS

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WHO WAS FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT AND WHAT WAS HIS NEW “NEW DEAL”? UPON WHOSE IDEAS DID HE BASE HIS “NEW DEAL”?

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FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WAS THE US PRESIDENT. HE INTRODUCED THE “NEW DEAL”. IT CREATED NUMEROUS PULIC WORK PROGRAMS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED AND FARMERS. THE IDEA WAS BASED FROM KEYNES THEORY

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WHAT WAS THE CCF? WHAT WERE THE MAIN IDEAS?

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COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH FEDERATION.

  • PULIC OWNERSHIP
  • SOCIAL GROUPS- TO ASSOST PEOPLW IN NEED OF CARE(ELDERLY, UNEMPLOYED, HOMELESS, SICK ETC. )
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EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT OF EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS

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IT WAS TO ENSURE THAT EVERY PROVINCE WAS ABLE TO OFFER ITS CITIZENS THE SAME LEVEL OF SERVICES

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WHAT WERE SOME OF THE DISCRACTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION?

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RADIOS
AMAERICAN INFLUENCE–SHOWS, TALKSHOWS, SIMILAR TO TODAY.
THE BIRTH OF THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS
THEY WERE BORN FROM A FAMILY OF POVERTY.

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WHO WERE II DUCE, DER FUHRER, AND THE MAN OF STEEL?

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II DUCE- WAS THE LEADER IN ITALY. BENITO MUSSOLINI, HE CREATED THE FASICIST GOVERNMENT.
DER FUHRER- WAS ADULF HITLER. A RUTHLESS DICTATOR WHO RAN GERMANY WITH FEAR AND INTINIDATION
“THE MAN OF STEEL” WAS JOSEF STALIN, HE WAS A RUTHLESS AND CRUEL LEADER WHOSE AGRICULTURAL AND ECOMONMIC POLICEIES CAUSED THE DEATH OF MILLIONS IN THE SOVET UNION.

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LIST THREE THINGS WHICH INDICATE THE NAZIES WERE RACIST IN THEIR OUTLOOK

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THEY BELIEVED GERMANY WAS THE MASTER RACE COMPOSED IF ARYRANS (PURE RACE)
NON-ARYANS; JEWS, GYPSIES, ROMA, AND SLAVES) WHERE INFERIOR
MENTAL AND PHYISICALLY HANDICAPPED PEOPLE WERE DISPISED BECAUSE THEY DESTRYED THE PERFECT IMAGE

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WHAT HAPPENED IN SPAIN IN 1936? WHO OR WHAT IS THE MAC-PAPS?

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GENERAL FRANCISCO FRANCO AND HIS FATHER (FASCIST0 FOLLOWERS LED AN ATTACK ON SPAINS GOVERNMENT. A CIVIL WAR WAS CREATED BETWEEN THE ELECTED SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT AND THE REBEL FORCES OF GENERAL FRANCO. MAC-POPS WERE CANADIAN VOLENTEERS CALLED THE MACKENZIE-PAPINEAU BATTALION.

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WHO WAS NORMAN BATHUNE?

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HE WAS A CANADIAN PHYSICIAN AND MEDICAL INNOVATOR. IN SPAIN 1936 HE INVENTED THE FIRST MOBILE BLOOD-TRANSFUSION SERVICE.

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THROUGHOUT THE 1930S THE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES ATTEMPED TO APPEASE HITLER. WHAT IS APPEASEMENT? HOW DID THEY TRY TO APPEASE HITLER? WHAT WAS THE “LAST STRAW” WHICH LED TO WAR?

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APPEASEMENT MEAN THE GRANTING OF CONCESSIONS IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN PEACE. THEY ACCEPTED HIS DEMAND TO TAKE OVER SUDETENLAND, FOR PEACE IN RETURN. THE “LAST STRAW” WAS WHEN GERMANY INVADED POLAND, AND WOULDNT LEAVE BY THE DEADLINE GIVEN.