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Bloody Saturday
Bloody Saturday 1919 Strike by George Siamandas. Winnipeg's 42 Day Mini-Revolution? On June 21, 1919, near the end of the Winnipeg General Strike, saw the tragic event called "Bloody Saturday." Two men were killed and 27 others injured as strikers fought the Northwest Mounted Police. Cause of the Winnipeg Strike -
Babe Ruth
In 1920, the 25-year-old Ruth brought baseball into the light with a season for the ages. After a slow start, he didn't hit his first homer for the Yankees until May 1, he went on a tear with 12 homers apiece in May and June, more homers in a single month than anyone had hit all season in 1918. -
Women Right to Vote.
Millions of white women already possessed voting rights when the 19th Amendment was ratified, and millions more gained that right on August 18, 1920. After protesting for 72 Years women got the full right to vote. Women alright had a partial right to vote but that was for people who had husbands in the war, and even then it wasn't there choice. -
Radio
The Radio was invented by Lee de Forest in August 1920. Its nickname in the '20s was the "sound factory" and it was usually a big box in your living room. Rich People maybe had small enough ones for there car but it was very unlikely. Plus Most of the time you needed headphones for some radios -
Arthur Meighen
Arthur Meighen was the 9th Prime Minster in Canada for 7 Years in office from July 1920 to December 1921 and from June to September 1926. He led the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1926 and from 1941 to 1942. -
Insulin
Insulin was discovered by Sir Frederick G Banting at the University of Tronto. insulin was first used in a human to treat diabetes. In January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy dying from type 1 diabetes, became the first person to receive an injection of insulin. -
Flappers
Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behaviour. -
The birth of jazz
In 1920's and 1930's Jazz was a famous kind of music creating dances and music never seen before. Jazz is very up beat that people listened to at parties,weddings,Talkies,Clubs. With Dances that came with it like. The Charleston, Fox Trot, and The Black Bottom. You might know a song called Ain't Misbehavin made by Fats Waller. -
Black Tuesday
On October 29, 1929, the United States stock market crashed in an event known as Black Tuesday. This began a chain of events that led to the Great Depression -
Five Cent Speech
Mackenzie King's "Five Cent Speech" was about King's belief that the Canadian government should not give unemployment benefits to provincial governments in Canada with Conservative leadership. The speech made King seem out of touch with the hardships of ordinary people and helped the Conservative opposition gain support. -
Statute of Westminister
On December 11, 1931, the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminister which was a law that gave formal recognition to all countries with a Dominion status full independence. This meant that Canada was made a completely self-governing nation, bound by no laws other than its own. -
Hitler Elected
On January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
The New Deal
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" aimed at promoting economic recovery and putting Americans back to work through Federal activism. New Federal agencies attempted to control agricultural production, stabilize wages and prices, and create a vast public works program for the unemployed. -
CBC
In 1933, the government created the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) which became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1936. This corporation was created to counteract the American domination of the airwaves and to encourage the development of Canadian programs. CBC took on a powerful force in establishing a sense of national unity across Canada. -
Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939, German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun. With Russia attacking on the other side.
