I S Y5 - Final Exam Study Guide
I S Y5 - Final Exam Study Guide
I S Y5 - Final Exam Study Guide
Government
1. What the differences are between different political ideologies and where they fall on the
political spectrum
2. How Canada’s federal government functions and who is in charge of what
3. The differences between municipal, provincial, and federal governments
4. How a bill passes into a law in Canada
5. What the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees to Canadian citizens
6. How the electoral system works in Canada
7. How citizens and groups can influence government and policies
World War I
1. What are the various causes of World War I? How did each cause play a part in starting the war?
2. How did Canada become involved in this war? What was their role?
3. What were the alliances during the war? Who supported who?
4. How did people back in Canada (the home front) support the war effort?
5. What was the role of women during the war? (both on the battlefront and at home). How did
women benefit from this war?
6. What kind of warfare or battle tactics were used during World War I?
7. The major battles Canadians fought in and what happened during those battles.
8. What happened at the end of the war? What were the solutions that nations came up with to
restore peace?
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Interwars Period
1. What conditions were people faced with after World War I?
2. How did the Spanish Flu pandemic impact the world?
3. Economic, political, and social differences between the 1920s and 1930s
4. Popular culture during the 1920s. What did people do for entertainment? Culture?
5. Who did not benefit from the “roaring twenties”? Who is excluded from the popular narrative?
6. Canadian government responses to Britain in the 1920s
7. Underlying and immediate causes of the Great Depression
8. Canadian government responses to the Depression and political party movements during the
time period
9. Issues and problems people faced during the Great Depression
10. How economics worked during the Depression (Supply and Demand, New Deal, Keynes Theory)
11. The rise of totalitarianism and dictatorships in Europe during the 1930s
World War II
1. What are the various causes of World War II?
2. What are the battle tactics and weapons used during this war?
3. Who is on each side of the war (Allies and Axis Powers)? Why are they on that side?
4. What is the Holocaust? How were Jewish people persecuted under the Nazi regime?
5. How does Canada become involved in World War II?
6. What was the role of women during World War II?
7. What are Canada’s contributions during this war?
8. How is Canada impacted or changed by this war? (social, economic, political)
9. What are the major battles during this war? Do they have any codenames? What happens during
them?
10. How does the war end? (Both Europe and Pacific)