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75 Cards in this Set
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Historical Significance |
How we decide if something of the past is important |
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Evidence |
How we know what we know about the past. What we use to understand the past and turn it into history |
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Continuity and Change |
How we make sense of the complex flow of history |
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Number of Canadian MP's |
338 |
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Year Canadian women were able to vote |
1918 |
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Cause and Consequence |
Why events happen and what their impacts are |
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Causes of WW1 |
Militarism, alliances, imperalism, and nationalism |
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Historical Actors |
People who take actions that cause historical events |
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Historical Perspectives |
How we better understand the people of the past |
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The Ethical Dimension |
How history helps us to live in the present |
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Geographical Determinism |
Idea that the geography of a region determines the development of the living beings in that region |
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Examples of geography in every day life |
Roads, highways, culture, nature, landscape, and food |
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Demography |
Study of characteristics of a population (age, sex, level of education) |
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Population Geography |
Study of how and why demographic characteristics are distributed the way they are |
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Census |
Official count or survey of a population |
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Net Migration |
Number of immigrants - number of emigrants |
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Dependency Ratio |
Ratio of eligible workers to the dependant population |
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Stationary Growth |
A population with a zero growth rate |
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Reasons for people to move |
Climate, economic opportunities, political climate, family connections, education, living cost, and love |
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Why governments are reluctant to accept refugees |
Overpopulation, fear of terrorism, economy, and political reasons |
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Internal Migration |
Migration within a province or state |
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External Migration |
International migration |
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Assimilation |
Forcing a person to lose their original culture and integrate into the country's dominant culture |
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Examples of environmental stress |
Clear cutting, oil spills, and pollution |
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Solid waste |
Non soluable and non liquid |
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Toxic waste |
Dangerous chemicals or infectious organisms |
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Radioactive waste |
Hazardous waste emitting radiation |
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Number of Senate seats in Canada |
105 |
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Number of MP's in UK |
650 |
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Reps in UK House of Lords |
800 |
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Number of years between Canadian election |
4 |
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Ethnography |
Study of different human cultures |
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Dendrochnology |
Study of the rings of trees |
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Statigraphy |
Study of the layers of rock |
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Requirements for a culture |
A social organization, shared understandings, and a set of common practices |
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Pillars of Civilization |
Advanced and large cities, advanced technology, specialized workers, record keeping systems, and complex institutions |
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Homo Habilis |
First early humans to make stone tools |
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Homo Erectus |
First early humans to stand on 2 feet |
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Neanderthal |
First early humans to have ritual burials |
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Cro Magnon |
First early humans to create art |
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Negative consequences of Agriculture |
Chances of crop failure and long time to grow |
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Schlieffen Plan |
Plan by Germany to avoid a 2 front war |
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Most common transportation in WW1 |
By foot and horseback |
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Location of main French resistance in WW1 |
Marne River |
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Battle of Ypres (1915) |
First trench war for Canadians, 6000 casualties, axis used chlorine gas, inspired Flander's Fields |
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Battle of Somme (1916) |
Unsuccessful attack on German trenches, 20,000 Canadian casualties (Newfoundland regiment 90%) |
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Battle of Vimy Ridge |
Successful attack, 3000 killed and 7000 injured, Canada got its own commander |
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Battle of Passchendaele |
Canadians forced to attack, 16,000 dead, gained 7km of mud that Germany won back soon after |
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Revolution |
A big change or movement from the people to overthrow the pre existing system of government |
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Last Tzar of Russia |
Nicolas II (Romanovs) |
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Reasons for Russia joining WW1 |
Allies with Serbia, wanted to expand, needed warm water port |
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Nationality of Tzar Nicolas' wife |
Germany |
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Reason for innacuracy of historical dates in Russia |
Russia used the Russian Orthodox calendar, different from the rest of the world |
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Forms of government Russia goes through in 1917 |
Monarchy - Democracy - Communist Government |
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Russian Civil War |
1917 - 1922 |
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Leader of Communist movement |
Vladimir Lenin |
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Reasons for USA joining WW1 |
Sinking of ship Lusitania, German and Mexican relations, good business, and wanted to "save the world" |
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Armistice in WW1 |
11am, Nov.11, 1918 |
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What Germany had to do according to the Treaty of Versailles |
Pay allies reparations, limit military to 100,000, demilitarize the Rhineland, hand over all ships, no alliance with Austria and Hungary |
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President who pushed League of Nations |
President Woodrow |
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Reasons the League of Nations didn't work |
- Germany wasn't included - USA didn't join - Countries didn't act when others broke rules |
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Reasons for the Great Depression |
The dust bowl, grasshoppers, hail, people's inability and reluctance to spend money, WW1 |
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Why racism was appealing |
- people wanted their land back - Angry that immigrants were taking their jobs - wanted strong government that would pull them out of depression - Leaders were charismatic |
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Real conflict in WW2 |
Facism vs. Democracy vs. Communism |
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Lebensraum |
Germany's justification for taking back land |
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Appeasement |
Strategy where someone gives in to another |
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Name of USSR and Germany's agreement |
Soviet - Nazi non aggression act |
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Date Canada joined WW2 |
September 10th |
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Where the first Canadians were sent |
Hong Kong |
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VE Day |
May 7th, 1945 |
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Victory over Japan |
September 2nd, 1945 |
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Name of police force under Stalin |
KGB |
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Perestroika |
The restructuring of the Russian government |
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Glasnost |
Open criticism of government |
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What the USA refered to Russia as |
Red Terror |
