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League of Nations |
Created after ww1 to maintain peace. Idea of Woodrow Wilson was meant to use collective security for peace. |
After WW1 |
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Imperial Conference |
Meeting of British empire nations. I.e: New Zealand, South Africa to discuss greater independence from Britain lead to Balfour report. |
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Statue of Westminster |
Based on the Balfour report. The English agree to give Canada 'sovereignty' or greater independence. |
Based on Balfour report |
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Relief camps |
Camps for unemployed workers in the Great Depression. Workers got 20 cents a day and lived in horrible working conditions, with horrible food. |
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Dionne quintuplets |
A birth at witch 5 baby's were born. The father couldn't care for them so signed a contract to make money of them but they got taken away by the gov't and put on display. The gov't made allot of money from them but the quintuplets got none of it. |
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Dionne quintuplets |
A birth at witch 5 baby's were born. The father couldn't care for them so signed a contract to make money of them but they got taken away by the gov't and put on display. The gov't made allot of money from them but the quintuplets got none of it. |
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Red scare |
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. The first red scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. |
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Emily carr |
Canadian artist, one of the first painters in Canada to adopt a modernist painting. Carr was one of the earliest. Chroniclers of life in bc. |
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Balfour report |
(1926) declared that Britain and its dominions were constitutionally equal to each other. Landmark document confirming Canada as a fully independent country. |
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Balfour report |
(1926) declared that Britain and its dominions were constitutionally equal to each other. Landmark document confirming Canada as a fully independent country. |
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Winnipeg general strike |
Workers went on strike for higher wages. Trades and labour council appealed for a general strike in support of the metal workers. |
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Balfour report |
(1926) declared that Britain and its dominions were constitutionally equal to each other. Landmark document confirming Canada as a fully independent country. |
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Winnipeg general strike |
Workers went on strike for higher wages. Trades and labour council appealed for a general strike in support of the metal workers. |
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King-Byng crisis |
Canadian constitutional crisis (1926) when the GG of Canada refused s request by his PM William Lyon Mackenzie king, to dissolve parliament and call a general election. |
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Bloody Saturday |
A strike were 2 were killed and many wounded. Police made many arrests. fearing more violence strikers decided to call it offend return to work. |
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Trade unions |
A union made up of mainly workers. Main aim is to protect and advance the interests of its members in the workplace. |
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R.B BENNET |
became a target. People used his name as a joke. Secretly generous and sent many people in need 5$. Didn't achieve a great deal. |
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R.B BENNET |
became a target. People used his name as a joke. Secretly generous and sent many people in need 5$. Didn't achieve a great deal. |
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CFF |
A political party formed in 1932. Later became the NDP. |
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R.B BENNET |
became a target. People used his name as a joke. Secretly generous and sent many people in need 5$. Didn't achieve a great deal. |
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CFF |
A political party formed in 1932. Later became the NDP. |
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Great Depression |
Economic downturn in history. Began soon after the stock market crash (1929) with sent Walk street into panic and wiped out millions of investors. |
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Black Tuesday |
When panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares. Often cited as the beginning of the Great Depression. |
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Tariffs |
A tax imposed on imported goods and services. Making them more expensive to consumers. |
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The new deal |
A series of domestic programs enacted in the U.S. |
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John Maynard Keynes |
A man who introduced a thought to be radical idea to fix the economy that didn't go through because old economic ideas had to be buried before a new one was introduced. |
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Pogey |
A solution to the Great Depression introduced to help the many people in need. They would be given food vouchers which they could trade which they could trade for necessitates. This didn't work well because the vouchers were kept lower then the lowest paying jobs. |
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Pogey |
A solution to the Great Depression introduced to help the many people in need. They would be given food vouchers which they could trade which they could trade for necessitates. This didn't work well because the vouchers were kept lower then the lowest paying jobs. |
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Regina riot |
The culmination of months of protests as thousands of unemployed men moved across the country as what become known as the "onto to Ottawa trek". |
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