1.27.09 History Exams

Lim
1/27/09
CHC2D

What is your response to the punishment that Meyer received? Did you think he should have been punished at all? Explain your answer.

I think he deserved the punishment; life sentence is enough for his role in the murdering of Canadian soldier prisoners. He encouraged his troops to kill prisoners, and he didn’t even have respect for them. I think that’s horrible and he really deserved to stay in prison for life but he got released from prison.

The soldiers who were murdered at the Abbaye have a special memorial set up in their honour. Are some deaths more worthy of special recognition than others? Based on your knowledge of the Second World War, what other circumstances can you think that might lead to special commemorations?

I’d say it really depended on what kind of person who died is, to deserve a special recognition than others. As for the circumstances, I think that people who died trying to rescue prisoners, fallen during battle, and died in bombing deserved special commemorations, as well as people sacrifices themselves for others.

Why Canada refused to accept Jewish refugees in ‘30s?

Canada was in isolation at that time, and Canadians did not like Jewish at all. Canada wanted nothing to do with foreign people, and wanted to focus on itself, instead of looking out for other people of other countries. Canada only joined the war because it saw Britain needed help badly.

How did women’s social status improve during WW1?

Lot of men were going to war in Europe, and there were barely any men old enough for war in Canada to work, so women started to leave their home to go to help work and to make supplies needed for Canada troops in Europe. Women started to do more work with lot of men away, and the government granted some woman the right to vote.

How did the French Canadians react to conscription?

French Canadians were against conscription, and wanted no part in the war, so most of them sent a reply requesting they be pardoned from the war. They also started a riot in Quebec about the conscription.

TOPIC: WOMEN AND WARTIME INDUSTRY

Women and wartime industry played a very important role during First World War. Women helped with war relief. Women also helped make the society change for better. We cannot forget the fact that it was during WW1 that women started getting rights. This is my argument.

Women helped with war relief. How, you may ask. Well, lot of men went to war in Europe right? So there’re no men that are old or young enough for war in Canada right? So that leaves lot of jobs open, right? Women took this opportunity to begin to work, and to make supplies needed for troops in Europe. Women also went to Europe to be nurses also known as Bluebirds to help the injured men and to try to get them back to health so they can go back into the battlefield.

Women also helped make the Canadian society change for better. Women began to fight for their rights during WW1 by going to work, taking up the roles that only men were allowed to take up, and women earned money to keep the property of their farms.

Women started to get rights during WW1 because they began to help with war effort so much that the army men and the government simply cannot ignore the women and their war effort, so they had to grant the women rights. What rights you ask? Well, the woman got rights to vote in 1916, at first it was only women who were sisters, wives, mother, daughters of the armed men who got the rights to vote, even so it was only in provincial election. Later all women were allowed to vote in only provincial election. Today, all women are allowed to vote in provincial and federal elections.

Women played an important role during WW1. They helped with war effort and war relief. Women also helped improve the Canadian society. Thanks to women during WW1, we women have the rights and are equal to men. Now, those are my reasons why women played an important role.