Voyage of the St. Louis

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/stlouis/story/voyage/

Introduction to the Holocaust — Animated Map

We will be going to the Holocaust Centre on Monday Dec 5th.  See the link below to get more details.

Introduction to the Holocaust — Animated Map

Saving Private Ryan Video

Hi folks,

Here is the video to the first 10 minutes of the film Saving Private Ryan.  It shows what D-Day would have looked like.  It is quite graphic, please be advised. 

Monday December 5th 2011 Field Trip

Hello folks!


Here are the details to our Field Trip on Monday December 5th 2011. 

**Don't forget to pack a lunch and bring 2 TTC tokens with you!

We will all meet at 10:30AM Sharp in Portable 7
Together with Mr. Jones, everyone will walk to the bus stop on Don Mills


We will take bus # 25 NORTH to Don Mills Subway Station ***Everyone take a TRANSFER!


We will go WEST to Sheppard/Yonge Subway Station


We will connect to the Sheppard Bus #84 WEST or #196 Express to Bathurst Street


We will get off the bus at Bathurst/Sheppard and transfer to the #7 Bus NORTH using our TRANSFERS




We will get off the bus at Ellerslie Ave. cross the street to the west side of Bathurst at the lights and walk SOUTH 3 minutes until we reach the entrance to the Holocaust Centre.

Our tour will begin at 12:00PM  NOON TIME and will last until 2:00PM

At 2:00PM when the tour is over, everyone is allowed to return home "unsupervised" going back the same way we arrived to the centre. (if you want to take a different way home, that is ok, just make sure you don't get lost!)




IMPORTANT LINKS


Google Maps Directions to the Centre: 

http://g.co/maps/fnp4r

Toronto Subway Map

Info about the Centre: http://holocaustcentre.com/

Centre Details:


Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Lipa Green Centre, Sherman Campus
4600 Bathurst Street, 4^th Floor
Toronto, ON • M2R 3V2 • CANADA
neuberger@ujafed.org • 416.631.5689

**Please note that we will be hearing from a living survivor of the Holocaust.  The speaker has lived through terrible things and has lived to speak about it.  I trust that everyone will be on their best behaviour during the time at the centre and that there will be ABSOLUTELY NO CELL PHONE USE OR TALKING during the presentation as it would be more than disrespectful and that person will be immediately asked to leave the centre.

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World War Two Work Sheet pg-64-68

World War Two Work Sheet  pg-64-68

Look at the photo on page 64.  Who were the allied leaders?  Name them.

What were the disadvantages of participating in big wars for Canadians?(pg. 64)

What were the advantages of participating in big wars for Canadians? (pg. 64)

What were the four main causes of WWII?  List each one and describe each cause(pg. 65-67)

Look at the maps on page 66. 

List the countries that disappeared after WWI

List the countries that were born after WWI

Who was Benito Mussolini?(pg. 65)

What kind of government was created in 1917 by the Russian Revolution?(pg. 65)

Who became the new leader of the Soviet Union in 1927? (pg. 65)

What does persecution mean?

What main group of people did Hitler blame all of Germany’s problems on? (pg.66-67)

What country in Asia was trying to increase its power by invading other countries like China? (pg. 67)

What do you think appeasement means? (pg. 67)

Why do you think Canadians and Americans did not want to fight another war in Europe? (pg. 68)

Which two countries promised to defend Poland if Poland was attacked by Germany? (pg. 68)

How many Chinese people were killed in the city of Chungking by Japanese bombers?  Look at the photo on the top of pg 68.

Case Study: Jews in Canada – Page 61-62 in the Textbook

Case Study: Jews in Canada – Page 61-62 in the Textbook

1.      When did the first Jews settle in Canada?

2.     In 1901 how many Jews were there in Canada?

3.     In 1931 how many Jews were there in Canada?

4.     Toronto was home to how many Jews?

5.     What does prejudice mean?

6.     (from the photo on pg. 61) – Why did the Nazis tattoo  numbers on the arms of the Jews?

7.     Were the Jews the majority or a minority in the countries that they left in Europe?

8.     What does anti-Semitism mean?

9.      When was anti-Semitism at its peak (highest point) in Canada?

10.              What was the name of the German leader in 1933?

11.              Which people did the Nazi Party begin to persecute in 1933?

12.              Did the Jews of Germany and other areas of Europe have any rights during this time?

13.              Why were newcomers to Canada unpopular during this time?

14.            What was the position of the Department of Immigration concerning the entry of Jews to Canada?

15.             Who was the head of the Canadian Department of Immigration?

16.              How did this person make it difficult for Jews to enter Canada?

17.            How many Jews were admitted to Canada between 1933 and 1945?

18.             What did Hitler decide to do in 1941?

19.            What does the word Holocaust mean?

20.            How many Jews were murdered during this time?

21.             Look at the photo on the top of pg. 62 – Why did the Nazis kill 2500 Jews in this town?

22.            Thinking question:  Have you ever experienced discrimination?  How do you think it would feel if you lost all of your rights and were made to feel not human just because of your religion? 

23.            Thinking question: What do you think you can do in order to teach people that discrimination is wrong and not acceptable?

The 1930 Election

The 1930 Election

The 1930 election was fought between Mackenzie King and the Liberals and R. B. Bennett and the Conservatives. Bennett believed that he could use tariffs to "blast a way for Canadian products into world markets. He believed that higher tariffs would protect Canadian goods from unfair competition by other countries, especially the United States.

Prior to the election, in the House of Commons, King had made a major blunder by saying that he would not give a "five-cent piece" to assist Conservative provincial governments with their "alleged unemployment" problem. That insensitive remark cost King dearly as Bennett's Conservatives won the 1930 election with 137 seats, including an unheard of 24 in Quebec.

Bennett's timing could not have been worse as his administration governed Canada during the five worst years of the depression. However, his own policies did little to improve the situation. Despite campaigning as something of a radical, once in office, Bennett adopted a fairly traditional approach. As a conservative, he disliked spending public monies on huge public relief projects. Nevertheless, he did pass an initial $20 million emergency aid law to provide provinces for relief and public works.

Wedded to the idea that a balanced budget was the key to get Canada out of the depression, Bennett was slow to adopt the new deficit financing ideas of economist John Maynard Keynes. Responding to the U.S. decision to raise tariffs to their highest levels in history, Bennett followed suit by in turn raising Canadian tariffs. That policy was disastrous as Canadian exports plummeted from $1.4 billion in 1929 to $475 million in 1933. By 1933, 826 000 people out of a population of 10 million were unemployed. 

Prairie Family and their "Bennett Buggy"

The conditions of 'the dirty thirties' had never been experienced before. Not once in the decade did the unemployment rate drop below 12%. It peaked in 1933, at 26.6%. Those figures did not include the thousands of out-of-work farmers and fishers, who were not counted in government statistics. Nor did it include the thousands who had simply given looking for work. At that particular time there was no such thing as unemployment insurance or welfare. People lost their homes, were thrown on the streets, lived in shantytowns, rode the rails, and survived as best they could. 'Bennett buggies' were the derisive term used to describe a horse-drawn vehicle because the owner could not afford to buy gas.

All people and all areas suffered. However, the suffering was not equally shared. Unskilled workers suffered more than skilled workers. Young people found it virtually impossible to enter the labour market. Single-industry towns such as Windsor, Sudbury, and Oshawa - all in Ontario - suffered more than areas that were more diversified. Similarly, more diversified farming areas, such as the mixed farms of eastern and central Canada fared better than those solely reliant on a single crop, such as wheat on the Prairies. Because it was deemed socially unacceptable for a woman to hold a job instead of a man, working women suffered significantly.

Questions:

1.      1.  Which politicians were competing in the 1930 election?

2.      2.  What does ‘blunder’ mean?

3.      3.  What did King say about a ‘five cent piece’ that led him to lose the election?

4.     4.  How many seats did Bennett win in the 1930 election?

5.      5. Due to Bennett’s policies, how many people became unemployed in 1933?

6.      6. What was the unemployment rate as a percentage in 1933?

7.      7. What were Bennett Buggies? 

8.      8. What kind of people suffered the most during the depression?

9.      9. What areas suffered the most during the depression?

1   10.  Why did working women suffer during this time?

1   11.  Write a paragraph describing how you would feel if you were living during this time.  Be creative.

The Government Steps In - 1930s

Government Steps In

By the middle of the decade of the 1930s, many governments started to lose faith that 'the market would correct itself.' A number of factors lay behind this major transition away from the traditional economic policy of "laissez faire".

Half a decade into the Great Depression, the economy simply was not righting itself as still close to one out of three workers was unable to find employment. The markets needed to be stimulated. British economist John Maynard Keynes introduced the new concept of 'deficit financing' in which governments could postpone debts in the future and thus spend their way out of depression. In 1933 American President Franklin Roosevelt introduced his revolutionary New Deal which addressed head-on some of the systemic causes that underlay the Great Depression. 

R. B. Bennett and Mackenzie King, 1934

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The Bennett New Deal

Something had to be done, and done quickly about the worsening national economic state. After initially acting quickly upon taking office by raising tariffs and providing relief money to the provinces for unemployment, Prime Minister Bennett did little else. He sat back and waited, trusting in the economy to right itself. He could not leave behind the old high-tariff protectionist attitudes that were strangling recovery. The economy had been in trouble before but it had always righted itself. It would do so again. That was the popular belief shared by Bennett and many others, including Mackenzie King. However, things were not getting better; they were simply getting worse, with no end in sight. Bennett realized that he had do something drastic to salvage his political fortunes in the upcoming 1935 election. Adopting a page from United States President Franklin Roosevelt, Bennett tried to institute his own version of 'the New Deal.' In doing so, he appeared to be contradicting everything that he as a conservative capitalist had stood for.

Roosevelt had come to office in 1932 and announced in his famous Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." In order to combat that fear, he launched an ambitious and innovative One Hundred Days, which called for "action, and action now." He targeted three areas - relief, recovery, and reform. His plan came to be known as the New Deal. Roosevelt got the United States working by funding massive public works projects. Farmers were paid to accept government quotas to limit production. Interest-free loans were made available. Bank deposits were ensured up to $5000 per person. Tariffs were reduced. The stock market was reformed through the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission. In short, FDR's New Deal helped to save, reform, and renew America's economy.

Bennett was slowly converted to some of the leftist leaning policies of the New Deal, probably less out of conviction than out of pragmatism. Faced with a very low popularity rating as well as the gaining momentum of several new political parties, Bennett needed something that the electorate would respond to favourable. He surprised the country and even his own cabinet by introducing his version of the New Deal. On January 2, 1935, he began to copy another FDR innovation - 'the fireside chats' (informal radio speeches) that outlined his ideas for getting Canada out of Depression.

Questions:

1.       1.  What evidence was there that half a decade into the Great Depression the economy was still in bad shape?

2.      2.  What was John Maynard Keynes idea to help the economy during the Great Depression?

3.       3.  Which American President unveiled his ‘new deal’ to deal with the Great Depression?

4.       4.  What was Prime Minister Bennett’s strategy to fix the economy?

5.       5.  What idea did Prime Minister Bennett take from the US president at the time?

6.       6.  What were the ‘three r’s’ of Roosevelt’s New Deal?

7.       7.  What were the ‘fireside chats’ and how were they used to help Canada’s economy?