history 2 definitions to know
league of nations
-intergovernmental organization to keep peace and prevent war
-canada had own seat
anti-semitism
-racism against jewish people
one big union
-organized to bring together all canadian workers in one union
-1919
-used strikes to get what they wanted
-possible coomunist ties
winnipeg general strike 1919
-massive strike of all workers in winnipeg
collective bargaining
-negotiation between employers and employees (unions) about wages, working conditions etc.
bloody saturday june 21, 1919
-ended winnipeg general strike
-police charged protestors, people were injured and died
mahjong
-1920's tile game
-fad
flappers
-1920s
-a subculture of young women in cities who went against what was considered acceptable behaviour / dress
-bobbed hair, short skirts, listened to jazz, danced the charleston, smoked, drank
talkies
-movies with recorded dialogue
-replaced silent movies
-came here in 1927
knights of the road
-hoboes
-young men crossing the country looking for work
-travelled on top of box cars
pablum
-canadian invention in1930's
-precooked cereal for infants
-sick kids hospital
scab labour
-employers used them during a strike
-were employees who wouldnt join a strike, or a union, returned to work during a strike, replaced a union worker during a stike
-unions hated them
prohibion
-ban on alcoholic beverages (drinking, selling, making)
-during war and afain during the 1920s
-during was to conserve grain
-during 1920s because drinking was a social problem
-supported by wctu, farmers, the church
wctu
-womens christian temperemce movement
-wanted prohibition
bootleg booze
-illegal booze that was sold during prohibition
spanish flu
-pandemic at very end of ww1
-killed 50,000 canadians
black tuesday oct29, 1919
-final day of stock market crash
-wiped out billions of dollars of share value
farm foeclsure
-1930's
-farmers couldnt pay mortgages (drought, infestations, decreased demand for exports)
-lost their famrs
chanak crisis
-1922
-turkey
-britain asked pm king for help because british soldires were being threatened in turkey
-first time ever canada said no
-independence from britain
jungle
-hoboes lived here beside train tracks while waiting to jump on box cars
soup lines
-during depression (1930s)
-fed the neediest people
-free meals
trekkers
-young men from relief camps on way to ottawa to protest (on to ottawa trek)
relief camps
-federal government (bennett) set these up
-single unemployed men 17-30
-work, pay 20 cents a day, food, a place to sleep
dionne quintuplets
-first ever to survive
-born in callander in 1934
-became wards of the government
-they were a bit of hope in bad times
the great stork derby
-a contest in 1926-1936 in toronto
-the woman who had the most babies got money in charles millars will
-4 women won $110000 each (9 babies)