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by Ashley Pacek 4 years ago

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Roaring 20's and Dirty 30's

Roaring 20's and Dirty 30's

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