CANADIAN HISTORY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
CHC2D1
EXAM REVIEW
EXAM FORMAT
Your Final Exam will appear in the following format.
SECTION 1 KNOWLEDGE
30 MARKS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
• You will be required to circle the correct answer (4 choices) for each question or
statement on the Exam Paper and Scantron.
• The questions/statements will vary in type and may include quotations or readings.
• All the questions/statements in this section will come from the first half of the course, up
to and including WWII.
SECTION 2 THINKING
27 MARKS
A. SEQUENCE
(16 marks)
• You will be given 2 separate sections of Canadian History to put in proper chronological
order.
• You will be required to put 8 historical individuals and 8 historical events in order of
occurrence.
• This section will span the entire course.
Example:
Instructions: Place the events in Column A in the order they occurred in Column B.
Column A
Suez Crisis
Ypres
Juno Beach
Rwanda
Column B
B. READING SELECTION (11 marks)
• This section is modeled around the Grade 10 Literacy Test.
• You will be given a short reading passage and answer questions.
• You will be required to answer Multiple Choice Questions as well as Short Answer.
• This section deals with issues after WWII but the short answer questions may refer to all
of Canadian History.
SECTION 3 APPLICATION
25 MARKS
A. POLITICAL CARTOON ANALYSIS (15 marks)
• In this section, you will be given a Political Cartoon from an issue in Canadian History
post 1945 but may be tied or connected to issues we have discussed throughout the
course.
• You will be required to analyze the cartoon by answering these 3 specific questions:
A. Identify two (2) symbols within this political cartoon and clearly state what each symbol
represents (2 X 2 marks =4 marks)
B. State the message of this cartoon. Make sure to include specific historical facts to
support your response. (6 marks)
C. Based on the bias portrayed in this cartoon, describe the frame of reference of the artist
that created it. Explain. (5 marks)
B. PROPAGANDA POSTER (10 marks)
• In this section, you will be given a Propaganda Poster from pre WWII Canadian History.
• You will be required to analyze the poster by answering these 3 specific questions:
A. Who is the intended audience? How do you know? (3 marks)
B. What emotion(s) is the poster trying to invoke in the audience? How is the poster doing
this? (3 marks)
C. What objective did the government hope to achieve by creating this specific poster?
Explain your answer. ( 4 marks)
SECTION 4 COMMUNICATION 25 MARKS
WRITING A SERIES OF PARAGRAPHS
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This section is modeled around the Grade 10 Literacy Test.
You will be required to write a minimum of (4) four paragraphs expressing an opinion on
(1) one of (3) three possible topics.
A mark scheme will be present to help guide your response.
The questions span the entire course and deal with larger issues/themes that we have
discussed throughout the course.
TOPICS TO REVIEW
This course spans a great deal of time and information. It is extremely important that you do
attempt to review all your notes leading up to the exam as there are so many links and
connections to be made between each of the time periods we have studied.
As a final review, the following is a list of topics that will be important for you to review for your
final exam. Although some of the topics may not appear specifically on the exam, they will all
come in handy for your complete understanding of the larger issues and topics covered in the
course and for greater success.
WORLD WAR ONE
• Long Term and Short Term Causes
• Major Battles
• Inventions
• Important Individuals
• Conscription Crisis
• War on the Home front
• Treaty of Versailles
1920s and 1930s
• Life in the Twenties and Thirties for Canadians
• Important Individuals
• Inventions
• Social Changes
• Natives: Residential Schools and other issues
• Women: Vote/Person’s Case
• Treatment of other Minorities
• Prohibition
• Stock Market
• Long term and Short term Causes of the Depression
• Lessons learned from the Depression
WORLD WAR TWO
• Long Term and Short Term Causes
• Major Battles
• Important Individuals
• Conscription Crisis
• War on the Home front
• Japanese Internment
• Holocaust including Canadian reaction
THE COLD WAR
• Communism vs. Capitalism
• The United Nations
• Peace Keeping
• Korean War
• Suez Crisis
• NATO/NORAD
• Vietnam War
• Other Flashpoints
1950-1995 INTERNAL ISSUES
• Avro Arrow
• Military changes
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Aboriginal Self-Government
FRENCH-ENGLISH RELATIONS POST WWII
• Quiet Revolution
• Separatism and Parti Quebecois
• October Crisis and FLQ
• Constitution Crisis
• Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords
CANADIAN/AMERICAN RELATIONS POST WWII
• Autopact
• NAFTA
• Problems between neighbours
• Terrorism
GENERAL TOPICS/THEMES
It was highly stressed during this course that historical understanding is more important than the
mere regurgitation of dates and facts. Remember we are looking at Canada’s growth as a
nation in this course; our evolution in various ways throughout the Twentieth Century.
The following is a list of themes we discussed throughout the course that you should keep in
mind as you study and may come in handy for greater exam success, especially for the series
of paragraphs:
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War and Peace
Economic and Social Change
Treatment of Minorities
o Natives
o Black Canadians
o Immigrants
o Women
French/English Relations
Canadian/American Relations
International Relations
Please Note: It is very important that you review all of the Prime Ministers during the Twentieth
Century. Become familiar with the important events that surrounded them and you should learn
the order in which they were Prime Minister. This will come in handy at various points during
the exam.