The economy started to improve in this year, causing overproduction.
What started in 1920?
100
This year was the height of the depression
What is 1933
100
"Five Cent Speech"
What is Prime Minister Mackenzie King's famous speech?
100
Over a thousand men left the camps in the interior of British Columbia in protest against camp conditions in this year.
What is 1935?
100
Took over as leader of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin.
What is Josef Stalin?
200
On and off, Canadian faces droughts in these years.
What happened between 1929-1937?
200
Government relief payments given to those how had no alternative source of income
What is "pogey"
200
Prime Minister Mackenzie King was voted out in this year.
What is 1930?
200
Men crowded into and on top of freightcars and headed east to complain to Prime Minister Bennett in person.
What is "On to Ottawa Trek"?
200
At a conference in Munich, Britain and France had agreed to Hitler's demand for Sudetenland. Hitler, for his part, swore he would not expand his empire any further.
What is September 1938?
300
Wheat, fish, minerals, and pulp and paper
What was the Canadian economy reliant on?
300
riding on the roof or clung to the rods underneath the train
What is "hopping" freight trains/"riding the rods"?
300
Prime Minister Mackenzie King was replaced by him.
What is R.B. Bennett, leader of the Conservatives?
300
Formed in the West in 1932 which supported social programs such as income assistance, and publicly funded health care to help those in need.
What is Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)?
300
the "man of steel"
What is Josef Stalin?
400
Tariffs were added to taxes and goods
How did many countries respond to the economy slowing down?
400
Descended on the Prairies, stalling trains and buses, clogged car radiators and almost choked a dental patient to death while he had his mouth open.
What is a plague of grasshoppers?
400
R.B. Bennett gave this much money for work-creation camps.
What is $20 million?
400
The elderly, the unemployed, the homeless, the sick, and other citizens unable to support themselves.
What did CCF help support?
400
Came to power in Italy in 1922
What is Benito Mussolini or Il Duce ("the leader")?
500
Some Canadians their jobs, others lost everything because of this motto.
What is "buy now, pay later"
500
These people were forced to live on handouts and on meager government assistance, if they could get it.
What is unemployed, homeless, and desperately poor Canadians?
500
Created these for unemployed, single men.
What is work camps?
500
Did not win many seats in the 1930s
What is CCF?
500
The year Japan invaded the Chinese industrial province of Manchuria.