April 12

Social 10

I gave you the results of the WWI-WWII Quiz today. I also finished off the lecture on "Canada's Foreign Policy", I will be sending that lecture to you today. I assigned the following pages to read in Chapter 15 of your textbook: p.287-292, p. 294-299, p. 301-303, p. 305-308, p. 310. In addition to reading these pages you must answer 23 questions on Chapter 15; I have sent these questions to you already in an e-mail message.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10 Students:

• Sovereignty In-Class Position Paper is on Monday, April 16th
• WWI-WWII Research Project is due on Tuesday, April 17th
• Sovereignty Unit Final is on Thursday, April 19th

Sovereignty Unit Final Study Guide:

1. Key Concepts (you should be familiar with these terms and concepts):

• sovereignty
• independence
• nationhood
• nation-state
• national identity
• intervention
• international relations
• foreign policy
• "middle power"
• global community conflict
• cooperation
• collective security

2. Canada's Sovereignty (from PowerPoint presentation and reading booklet):

• political (constitutional) sovereignty (lots of details here)
• territorial sovereignty
• characteristics of a sovereign nation
• nation
• state
• nation-state

3. Canada's Role in WWI: (focus on the following issues)

• aims of Canada's involvement
• Canadian contributions
• consequences of the war as it relates to Canadian sovereignty

4. Attaining Independence:(importance of the following in relation to Canada gaining independence from Britain)

• Imperial War Cabinet's Resolution IX (from textbook and PowerPoint)
• Paris Peace Conference /Treaty of Versailles
• League of Nations
• Statute of Westminster (1931)
• Constitution Act (1982)

5. Canada's Role in World War II: (focus only on the following)

• what role did Canada play in WWII?
• Canadian contribution

6. Canada's Role in the Cold War (PowerPoint and Chapter 15):

• Canada's role in collective security arrangements (for example, NATO and NORAD)

7. Canada's Foreign Policy: (focus on the PowerPoint presentation for this topic)

• what influences Canadian foreign policy?
• Canadian foreign policy goals/themes
• aims/objectives of Canadian foreign policy

8. Canada and the United Nations (PowerPoint presentation and Chapter 15):

• Canadian involvement in UN agencies
• Security Council/peacekeeping
• military actions: peacekeeping (examples) and peacemaking (examples)
• know the difference between peacekeeping and peacemaking

9. Canada in the World/ Canada and International Organizations:(reading booklet, text)

• Commonwealth
• La Francophonie
• CIDA
• NGOs
• Canada's role in the developing world (foreign aid
• bilateralism/multilateralism/internationalism
• acid rain issue/global environment

This unit final consists of 65 multiple choice questions.