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Women's Roles 10
Christabel Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline founded the Women’s Social and Political Union in Manchester in 1903. It used military campaigning to try to gain women the vote. Its members were known as "suffragettes". During the war, Emmeline and Christabel led the WSPU in supporting the war effort. -
Women's Roles 1
Women working was not a new thing in 1914. They made up a pretty big chunk of the industrial workforce, even before the First World War, even though they were mainly working in "textile manufacturing". After 1915, when the need for bullet casings got worse, women were brought into factories manufacturing them in huge quantities. By 1918 almost a million women were employed. -
Women's Roles 3
For women with children who wanted or needed childcare could be a problem. By 1917 there were more than 100 day nurseries across the country, but there was no supply for women working not as a childcare worker, and most had to ask friends and family to help watch their kids while they wre at work -
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by serbian nationalist Gavrilo Pricip -
Women's Roles 5
Pressure from women for their own service to help with the war began in August 1914. After a War Office investigation which showed that many jobs being done by soldiers in France could instead be done by women, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was established in December 1916. -
Subarines
Richard McBride authorized spemdimg 1.1 million dollsrs on 2 submarines because he was scared to be attackedby german warships. -
Ypres
Canadians saw their first major action at Ypres -
Poison Gas
Poison gas was first used agaist Canadians at St. Julien -
Flanders Fields
Lieutenant-Colonal John McCrae was inspired to write In Flanders Fields to honour a friend who died in Ypres -
Women's Roles 2
The first women police officers were during the First World War. One of the main responsibilities of the "Women’s Patrols" (tahts what they were called) was to discipline and monitor women’s behaviour around factories or other places of work. They also watched over other public areas such as railway stations, streets, parks and public houses -
Battle of Somme
The battle of Somme began early morning -
Conscription
Conscription became a law -
Battle of Passchendale
Canadians took part in the battle of paschendale from October to November -
Halifax Explosion
In the Halifax explosion 1,630 people died and over 9,000 were injured -
Women's Roles 7
The Women’s Social and Political Union suspended campaigning for women’s pain during the war. Thisbrought up the need to support the war effort, but also that such support could really benefit the campaign. This appeared to pay off. In February 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave the vote to all men over 21 years old and to women over 30. But, it was another ten years later before this was for women over 21. -
Victoria Cross Award
Approximately 70 canadians recieved the Victoria Cross award for "most conspicuous bravery in the presece of enemies -
Women's Roles 8
Women working in the auxiliary services or working in manufacturing, transport and on the land wore a bunchh of different uniforms and clothes, sometimes even trousers. Although women’s fashion was already evolving by 1914, the move to more practical clothing during wartime accelertated change. By 1919 many fashionable young women were wearing shorter skirts and looser-waisted clothing -
Prohibition
Crime rates rose so the government prohibited any consumption of alcoholic substances which ended in Speakeasies etc... and crime rates rising even more -
Influenza
Influenza, which is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory system, killed over 50,000 Canadians and there were massive epidemics of it at least 7 times during the 19th century -
Teenagers
The activities teenagers liked to do were Dancing, golfing, curling and hockey. -
Famous 5
The "Famous 5" were Nellie Meclung, Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards. -
Jailing
A girl under 21 who did not obey her parents or direct superiors could have been jailed. -
Grey Cup
Argos won the Grey Cup -
Women's Roles 6
Working together in groups created new passtimes and games for women. Sport was encouraged towards female workers as it was good for their health and general being. Many munitions factories made their own ladies’ football teams. They continued to enjoy success - being women and playng a man's sport - until women were banned from playing in Football League grounds in 1921. -
Readers Digest
Lila Bell and Dewitt Wallace -
Hockey Radio
Foster Hewitt aired the first hockey radio show -
Women's Roles 4
Factory work was well paid, especially for women that had worked as a housewife r a stay at home mom. But it was often unpleasant, dangerous and involved working long hours. Women in large shell filling factories worked with TNT. This poisonous explosive could cause a fatal condition called toxic jaundice. If you had it you could tell by your skin turning yellow. There were also several awful explosions in which women workers were killed. The aftermath of one of the worst, in Nottinghamshire -
Asians in Canada
Canada refused to let asian people into the country even though over 30% had never been to Japan because of the CPR -
Stock Market Crash
By 1933, almost half of Americas banks had failed and unemployment hit over 15 million people, 30 percent of the workforce. -
Dirty 30s
The dirty 30s was a time of dust storms and these storms caused major agricultural damage -
CRBC
The Canadian Radio Broadcast Commission was established by the government of R.B Bennett because of a recommendation by the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting -
Social Credit
The social credit was in the province of Alberta -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover declared they had passed their worst and homeless would often live in "hoovervilles" or "shanty towns" -
WW2 10
In October 1941, over 50,000 Jews were killed by Romanian troops in what is known as the "Odessa massacre" -
Final Solution
The "final solution" was constructed during the Wannsee Conference -
WW2 ended
When WW2 ended unemployed soldiers were sent to work in factories -
Cold War fact 1
The cold war was started by the US government in a meeting -
Cold war fact 3
In cuba things were distributed equally like toilet paper -
Cold war fact 6
Congress added the "under God" part to the pledge of allegiance to symbolize resisance to commumist atheists -
Cold war fact 4
East Brent buit a wall overnight for protection. Its demlition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992 -
Cold war fact 2
Over 50,000 men died in Cureya alone. -
Cold war fact 5
Russia secretely had maps SO detailed of the canadian arctic that ships even use them over official maps to this day -
Hitlers Prisoners
Prisoners were forced to bury or bur corpses no matter who they were -
Hitler
Hitler led and raised the nazis to believe jews were spawns of satan -
Jew deaths
Nazi Gemany and its collaborators killed over 6 million jews -
Children deaths
Nazis killed over 1.1 million children -
Residential Schools
The goal of residential schools was to "civilize" Canada's indigenous population -
Residential Schools 2
The program began with 69 schools but expanded to 139 -
Residential Schools 3
When the program started, 1,110 students attended, but it expanded to over 150,000 -
Residential Schools 4
Over 6,000 students died -
Residential Schools 5
Student deAths were so common, architects designing the schools planned to incorporate cemeteries with the designs -
Japanese Internment
Over 66% of the Japanese-Americans sent to the camps had never been to Japan -
Japanese Internment 2
When Roosevelt signed the executive order, the Japanese prisoners were held in temporary shelters like stables in horsetracks -
Japanese Internment 3
There were 10 internment camps in USA -
Japanese Internment 4
Canada sent over 23,000 Japanese Canadians to camps in Brittish Columbia -
Japanese Internment 5
In 1988, surviving prisoners were awarded $20,000. Only 60,000 survived. -
Women's Roles 9
Over 750,000 British men died during the First World War. During the 1920s, newspaper headlines talked of 'surplus' women who would never find husbands. Many middle class women did remain unmarried becase of the fact there were no available men. Some women remained single by choice or by financial necessity. Professions such as teaching and medicine were opening up to women, but only if they stayed unmarried. -
WW2 4
U.S. Soldier John R. McKinney faught off over 100 Japanese soldiers single-handedly -
WW2 1
Most kamikaze died in vain. Only 1 in 9 kamikaze pilots hit their targets during WW2. -
WW2 2
Japan and Russia still haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the Kuril Islands dispute. -
WW2 3
Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver -
WW2 5
The number of Chinese killed by the Japanese during WW2 is greater than the numbr of Jews killed in the HolocausT -
WW2 5
The Mosque of Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs -
WW2 6
A Japanese man survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings -
WW2 7
WW2 Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade survived a fall from 18,000 feet without a parachute, ending up with only a sprained leg -
WW2 8
During WW2, when Hitler visited Paris, the French cut the lift cables on the Eiffel Tower so that Hitler would have to climb the steps if he wanted to reach the top LOL -
WW2 9
At least 1.1 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust.