The Roaring Twenties
This government policy, implemented in Canada during the early 20th century, aimed to ban the sale, production, and distribution of alcohol, but led to a rise in smuggling and illegal speakeasies.
What is Prohibition?
This major economic event, which originated in the U.S. but spread globally, caused banks to fail in Canada and led to widespread unemployment and social unrest during the early years of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
This environmental disaster, which occurred during the Dirty Thirties, turned vast areas of farmland in Canada’s Prairie Provinces into barren dustbowls, making it difficult for farmers to grow crops.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This group of young women in the 1920s became symbols of independence and rebellion, characterized by their short skirts, bobbed hair, and defiance of traditional societal norms.
Who are Flappers?
This 1929 legal case, led by the Famous Five, resulted in Canadian women being legally recognized as "persons" under the law, allowing them to be appointed to the Senate.
What is the Persons Case?
This stock market event, which occurred on October 29, 1929, is often considered the triggering point for the Great Depression, as it led to a massive loss of wealth and a financial panic.
What is Black Tuesday?
This Canadian Prime Minister, in office during the majority of the 1930s, faced intense criticism for his handling of the Great Depression, particularly for his reluctance to implement direct government intervention.
Who is R.B. Bennett?
In the 1920s, this Canadian city became the site of a major strike in 1920, when workers in this city's textile and manufacturing industries protested for better wages and working conditions.
What is Winnipeg?
Category: World History
This Canadian Prime Minister was in office during much of the 1920s, overseeing a period of economic growth in Canada and supporting the development of Canada's oil industry.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
The global downturn in this economic sector, due to overproduction and declining prices, contributed to widespread unemployment and financial instability during the Great Depression.
What is Agriculture?
R.B. Bennett’s version of the New Deal mirrored this American president’s program, which also focused on social reforms, economic recovery, and public works to fight the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This country's post-World War I debt crisis, combined with high reparations payments, contributed to economic instability in Europe and deepened the global effects of the Great Depression.
What is Germany?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
These four key events in the 1920s significantly shaped Canada’s move towards greater autonomy and independence from Britain.
What are the Chanak Crisis (1922), the Statute of Westminster (1931), the Balfour Report (1926), and the Halibut Treaty (1923)?
This economic practice, in which investors borrowed money to buy stocks, contributed to an inflated stock market bubble that ultimately collapsed in 1929.
What is Buying on margin/credit?
During the 1930s, thousands of unemployed men in Canada resorted to this dangerous method of travel, hopping onto freight trains in search of work and better living conditions.
What is "riding the rails"?
The 1920s brought about a technological revolution with the mass production of this invention, which forever changed how people lived, worked, and traveled.
What is the Automobile?
Fueled by economic collapse, national humiliation, and political unrest, this extremist ideology gained support in Germany, allowing a former soldier to become Chancellor in 1933 and later establish a totalitarian regime.
What is the rise of fascism and Hitler coming to power in Germany?
In 1923, this law was passed in Canada to restrict immigration from specific countries, including China, India, and other parts of Asia.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This protectionist trade policy, enacted by the U.S. in 1930, worsened the economic situation by reducing international trade and worsening the global economic crisis.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
This massive protest march, which began in Vancouver in 1935 and led to thousands of unemployed workers traveling to Ottawa, highlighted the severe social unrest and economic hardship in Canada during the Dirty Thirties.
What is the On-to-Ottawa Trek?
Theses three American companies are often referred to as the Big Three
Who are GM, Ford and Chrysler?