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1944-1959: Maurice Duplessis as Premier with Union Nationale
- Maurice Duplessis was the Premier of Quebec and William Lyon was the Prime minister of Canada.
- The Duplessis Era was known as the great darkness. Policies followed social conservation, clericalism and anti-Union. Education and health care were outdated. Baby boom, americanism and increase immigration occur, people protested Maurice Duplessis. The economy followed economic liberalism, the government modernized agriculture and try to control inflation. (Class slides, Prezi 3.1)
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1945-1960: Baby Boom
The baby boom happened during the Duplessis Era, it caused the natural population growth due to high birth rate after war and low infant mortality rate.
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Asbestos Strike
Asbestos were negatively impacting workers health and causing deaths, the miners wanted safer conditions and more payment, so the strike erupted.
Maurice supported the employers and declared strikes illegal.
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1947-1991: The Cold War
- The cold war was a geopolitical struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- It avoided direct military conflict, relying on proxy wars and ideological competition between capitalism and democracy vs. communism and authoritarianism. ( Class slides , Prezi 3.1)
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Adoption of the Fleurdelisé
The Duplessis government was eager to affirm Quebec's identity within Canada, it demonstrated this desire by inaugurating the official flag of Quebec in 1948.
(Reflections, p. 211)