Roaring 20's and Dirty 30's

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Consumerism

par Jeffrey Briggs

spaces of appearance

par Gary Schultz

Ireland

par Eric Smithson

Softball

par Sariah Seon

Roaring 20's and Dirty 30's

Sports

1928 Olympic Games

Golden Age of Sports

Hockey Night In Canada

"He shoots he scores"

Arts

Radio

Canadian radio stations

1923 first national radio station began

Dancing

Charleston

Bunny Hop

Movies

Jazz Singer

Mary Pickford

Silent movies

Music

Silly

Jazz age

Light-hearted

To represent crazy times

Inventions

Telephones

Assembly line

Radios

Black Tuesday

Bankruptcy

New York Stock Exchange collapsed

Lost everything

Economic Boom

Branch plants

America

Increased wages

Women spending money

Credit

Magazines

Got jobs

Cars

Created jobs

Car plants allowed American companies to sell to Canadians without high transportation costs

Credit cards

Buy now, pay later!

Credit started

Fashion

Flapper

Coco Chanel

Women's roles

2 new laws for women

Cannot work 12-6am

Cannot work in mines

Jobs that got payed less than minimum wage

Garment piece workers

Domestic servants

Farm workers

3 leading occupations for women in 1921

Teachers

Servants

Clerical operations

Agnes Macphail

Subtopic

Elsie MacGuill

Emily Murphy

Great Depression

Canada's dependence on a few primary products

Wheat

Pulp and paper

Minerals

Fish

Hunger

High unemployment rates

High Tariffs choked off international trade

Trade

Canada's dependence on the United States

US economy suffered

Too much credit buying

Buying on margin

Dropped 50%

Debt

Over-production and over-expansion

Stockpiled

Hitler and Germany

Growing tensions with other European countries

Started WW2

Nazis

Concentration camps

Hitler rose to power