1920-1930s Flashcards
(25 cards)
1
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Prohibition, Bootlegging
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- banning the making, selling, drinking liquor
- Case of gin bought for $50 in niagra falls sold for $300 in New York
- exporting importing liquor in US called “bootlegging”
- parts of Canada had prohibition
- laws against liquor stopped in 1919
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Winnipeg general strike
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- •labour unrest means strike came in May 1919 for better pay and eight hours
- strike escalated on “bloody Saturday” in June 21 1919
- many workers had to sign”yellow dog contracts” to not join Union
- strike leader J.S Woodsworth was elected into house of commons
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William Lyon Mackenzie King
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- King won seat as liberal member
- Mackenzie King became prime minster beating conservative Laurier
- 1931 British parliament gave Canada control over relations with other nations
4
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- Treaty of Versailles
- Terms in treaty: TRMP
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- Treaty to end World War 1 “the war to end wars”
- Terms in treaty: Germany lost territories, Military was reduced, expected to pay $32 billion to Britain, France, Belgium, take full responsibility of war
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Mary Pickford
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- Canadian actress became first superstar actress known as “America’s sweetheart”
- Created film studio “united artists”
6
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- Neville Chamberlain
- Hitler taking Czech in Poland
- Winston Churchill
- Blitz(Battle of Britain)
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- British prime minister known as great appeasement gave away Czechoslovakia from Munich Agreement for no war, but Hitler took over all of Poland.
- Hitler launched a blitzkreg(ighting war) on poland in sept 1939.
- Winston: Britain new prime minister didn’t trust Hitler after what happened to Chamberlain. Hitler was angry so he plan to invade Britain
- German Luftwaffe (air force) invaded Britain bombing London and other major cities called “the Blitz”.
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- R.B Bennett
- His new Deal FIMMLC
- Bennet buggies
- Bennet Blankets
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- Conservative prime minister during great depression created a “new deal”
- limit wok hours, minimum wage, fair treatment for employees, unemployment insurance, health and accident insurance, market boards for farm Products(create specific price),trade commission to stop price fixing by business
- For re-election King won over Bennett.
- ppl lifting engines hooking up to horses to pull them called Bennett buggies
- Bennet Blankets: newspaper
8
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- On to Ottawa Trek
- Regina Riot
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- Government created relief camps for men but a protest began for better camp life and money
- Men went to protest in Ottawa then returned to Regina in market square and a riot broke out when Bennet called to arrest them
- Men lost, returning back to relief camps
9
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Passchendaele
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General Douglas Haig ordered attack on Germans in Passchen using vimy ridge troops.
- They seized the town but the battle was known as senseless slaughter
10
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- league of nations
- united nations
- arms race
- armistice
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- global association formed in 1919 after WW1 to keep peace replaced by United Nations in 1945
- arms race: competition b/w nations where the goal is to develop and have most weapons/new technology
- Armistice: a truce ending WW1
11
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Igor gozuenko
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- Was a cipher clerk sending code messages to Moscow
- Igor told the secrets of a soviet spy ring operating bcuz he wanted asylum (protect refugees) instead of returning
- King was worried bcuz he was about to discuss peace agreement w/soviet union and allies but changed his mind allowing Igor asylum
12
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- Agnes Macphail
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- Agnes: first Canadian female elected into federal parliament.
13
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- u-boats
- q ships
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- A submarine created in WW1 and Germany had the biggest submarine
- q ships disguised as vulnerable attacks to quickly attack submarine
14
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Berlin Wall
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- Built in 1961 to prevent east Germans from crossing the border into west Germany
15
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- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- What to contribute?
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- 1949, Allies joined this treaty
- Pledged to defend one another if an attack happened by an enemy
- Each member has to contribute troops as Canadian served on Europe bases in peace
- Canada spent lots of money
16
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- Korean War part of what war?
- Soviet Union and United States
- U.N security Council
- What did Canada do?
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- part of Cold war happened in 1950
- Soviet Union supported communism in North Korea
- Americans supported democratic in South
- June 1950, North Korea launched invasion to South with help Of Stalin
- US asked United Nations to stop them but the Soviet rejected to stop bcuz UN didn’t recognize Communism in China
- U.N security council demanded North Korea to stop but didn’t, so UN sent an international military force to drive out invaders
- Canada agreed to be in the Korean war, China helped North almost invading to Canadian units when UN stopped them
17
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- Cold war date,
- who was it between?
- Iron Curtain
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- 1945, Was b/w Soviet Union and United States that divided the world to be on either side by arms race
- Iron: West Europe was democratic while East Europe was communist controlled, the division known as Iron curtain said by Winston Churchill
18
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- Suez Crisis
- Suez Canal
- Egypt President
- Britain and France
- Soviet Union
- Lester B. Pearson Noble Peace Prize/Governing
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- 1956, Britain and France controlled the Suez Canal in Egypt
- Canal was a trade route for oil from Europe to Middle East and India (connects red sea to Mediterranean sea)
- Egypt president Gamal Abdel Nasser took over the Canal to pay for modernizing egypt
- Britain and France wanted to attack Egypt by getting Israel to invade
- Soviet Union threatened to launch nuclear attack on London and Paris if Britain and France did not stop
- Canada demanded them to stop as a peacekeeper
- Canadian Lester Pearson, won noble peace prize sending a United Nations Emergency Force in the hot spots (cold war)
- Became prime minister
19
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Robert Borden
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- Conservative Prime minister during WW1
- Involved in WW1 conscription
20
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- Operation Sea lion
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- Was a plan from Hitler to Invade Britain
- Was never carried out during the war bcuz Germans lost the Battle of Britain
21
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- Cuban Missle Crisis
- What did United states do?
- Stopping nuclear war
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- Soviet Union began to install nuclear missiles in Cuba
- United States negotiated to remove the missile as long as the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and remove their missiles from turkey and Italy
- Stopping Nuclear war
22
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- Dreadnought
- one hundred days (Final Fight in War)
- What did Canadians do?
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- big ass battleships first launched from Britain
- armed with heavy-caliber guns
- British and US blocked Germany from getting food and materials for war
- Canadians smashed into german lines
- Germans called this “the black day of the german army”
23
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- Mutual Assured Destruction (M.A.D)
- What did it prevent?
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- During cold war, neither side US and Russia will attack each other with nuclear weapons bcuz both sides will be destroyed in the conflict.
- No one will go all out on nuclear war becuz no side can win and no side can survive.
- MAD helped prevent the hot war
24
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- Mein Kampf
- Hitler Holocaust
- Final Solution
- Auschwitz
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- Hitler wrote the book Mein Kampf
- During great depression, Nazis won elections in 1932 and Hitler was appointed chancellor that is when Holocaust began
- Final: described as Jewish problem planned by Nazis to kill all jews and undesirables(other ppl like homos, gypsies)
- Auschwitz was a concentration camp in Poland killing w/ Zyklon B gas
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* When did WW1 start and end,
* Balkan Powder, who declared?
* WW1: July 28 1914-NOV 1918
* Balkan: final spark for war: when Austria was denied to enter Serbia, Austria declared on Serbia
* Germany pledged to help Austria
* Russia went w/ France
* Germany attacked Belgium in France, Britain entered the war
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