Effects of WWI

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Effects of WWI

• Social , Economical, Political and neighbours
  States

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Social

• Roles of females women got more jobs nurses,
  staff officers, 2000 women worked as nurses, 6000
  worked in the civil army, when men came back most
  women lost job- soon after this famous 5 were
  fighting for their rights, women helped by
  sending food, pyjamas and clothes for the
  soldiers at war
• Minorities, ethnic aboriginals were still
  being discriminated but made contributions in
  the war govt didnt expect them to be part of
  the war were seen as savages 4000
  volunteered for service in 1913 govt slowly
  stopped their racist attitudes towards them
  borden put the wartime selection act

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Social II

• French and English Canadians separated
  different thoughts, French had problems with them
  because Manitobas school act 1890 restricted
  French instructions in school, French didnt
  follow instructions for the war because they were
  against the British
• Government did nothing for the soldiers who
  returned

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Economy

• Canadians in early 1900s didnt think war in
  Europe would affect their rights
• more focused on unemployment, economic
  depression, threat of crop failure
• War hurt the troubled economy cause the
  unemployment rate grew cause soldiers left, and
  some people were not allowed to work Germans,
  etc. 20 of worlds prewar employees left .

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Economy II

• Debt ridden railway systems became a national
  disgrace because of debt ..no credit and
  50000 workers were out of job from 1914 -1915
• 1913 govt spent the same amount they spent
  on the military alone in 1915
• not a good time for Canada to enter war but
  pressured by Britain
• 1915 British ministry of munitions created
  the imperial munitions board (started to
  flourish) and produced a millions shells per
  day and 1/3 of it used in the war each day
  Joseph Flavellle 1917 the largest business in
  Canada gtgt employed 150 000 workers
• 1917 Britain could no longer afford Canadian
  goods Canada gained money through taxes
  tobacco, asked citizens and got 100 million from
  them- introduced victory bonds 2 billion!
  bonds in general covered 80 of the wars cost

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Economy III

• Thomas White was the finance minister in Canada
  at the time
• December 1917 Halifax relief commission
  formed 30 million
• After the war ended a lot of steel making and
  chemical making factories after war no demand
  of these things and these factories just shut
  down unemployment

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POLITICS

• Canada had a new and stronger relationship with
  Britain Canada was now being heard by other
  countries Borden had to deal with Canadas debt
• Maritimes building ships/ transporting so
  their manufacturing levels went down of corporate
  take over reduced the number of companies
  unemployment
• 1917 1921 maritime production stopped by
  40 - over 1000 people left Maritimes
• social problems --- 600 000 men went over seas
  and the rest of the soldiers who survived had
  trouble getting back to Canada

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Politics II

• Most of the country divided after the
  conscription act and the war times measure act
• Winnipeg general strike 1919 when soldiers
  returned they had no job and the had a strike
• Spanish flu 100 000 approx. soldiers stuck in
  Europe end of war and this flu caused
  devastating effect to the people in Europe and
  the soldiers brought it back to their countries
  and there was nothing to fight it with that was
  the last big pandemic about the same number
  people that died in the ww1 died from this flu
  all over the world

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AMERICANS

• SOCIAL
• National War Labour Board started at the
  beginning of the war
• Mediated labour disputes
• Resulting in improved wages, 8-hour work days
  and organized unions

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AMERICANS

• Women started working in factories in jobs that
  were normally male-oriented
• Police officers
• Factory workers
• Southern blacks also were allowed to hold jobs,
  and were not forced out at the end of the war
• Mexicans had lots of political turmoil.
• Since there was a labour shortage in the States,
  they immigrated to the USA to take the jobs

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AFTER THE WAR

• even though women were put out of their jobs,
  returning soldiers still had trouble finding work
• Government was no longer controlling prices and
  rationed goods
• Huge spike in prices of goods -gt inflation
• Many worker strikes
• Strikes were considered a European Communist
  behaviour, and scared many people
• Lots of racial movement. Returning soldiers
  were not allowed their jobs which had been taken
  over by people of a different colour

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AFTER THE WAR

• People felt that foreigners moving from Europe
  were bringing communist studies with them
• Led to the American idea of associating
  foreigners with unrest and violence and things
  that were generally unacceptable
• A lot of bombing and terrorism happening
  against these European countries
• FBI was formed to control terrorism
• Huge amounts of Russian and other immigrants
  were deported
• Immigration was severely limited and restricted
  after that