unit two: canada after the war Flashcards
(Spanish Flu) - Age Range
20 - 40 Years Old
(Spanish Flu) - deaths
(Global) 20 - 40 million
(Canada) - 50 000 (thousand)
(Spanish Flu) - dangerous?
- Highlighly contagious
- No idea when you’d die
(Spanish Flu) - significance
Helps form Canada’s current health care system -> sets up Department Of Health
(Soldiers Return Home) - length of time
LONG TIME (months - years)
(Soldiers Return Home) - brought home
Spanish Flu (spread through their constant contact)
(Prohibition) - defintion
The ban of production, sale and consumption of alcohol
(Prohibition) - origin
- women’s group
- WW1 food shortages
(Prohibition) - positive effects
- reduced missing of work
- more pay checks went home
- less crime
(Prohibition) - repeal
1948 - Gov wanted taxes/money from alcohol
(Labour Unrest) - Who Was Unhappy + Why?
Everyone.
Soldiers -> didn’t get their jobs back
Women -> forced to return home
POC weren’t given jobs
- many lost jobs
- lack of jobs meant (power working conditions + lower pay’
- inflation
(Labour Unrest) - Causes
- war related business shut down
- factories returning to what they produced before