Transcript Effects of WWI

Effects of WWI
Social , Economical, Political and neighbours States
Social
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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
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Minorities, ethnic – aboriginals were still being discriminated but made
contributions in the war… gov’t didn’t expect them to be part of the war –
were seen as ‘savages’ – 4000 volunteered for service in 1913 – gov’t slowly
stopped their racist attitudes towards them – borden put the ‘wartime
selection act’…
Social II
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French and English Canadians separated – different thoughts, French had
problems with them because Manitoba’s school act 1890 restricted French
instructions in school, French didn’t follow instructions for the war because
they were against the British
 Government did nothing for the soldiers who returned
Economy
• Canadians in early 1900’s didn’t 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 world’s prewar employees left ….
Economy II
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Debt ridden railway systems became a national disgrace – because of debt
..no credit – and 50000 workers were out of job from 1914 -1915
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1913 – gov’t spent = the same amount they spent on the military alone in 1915
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not a good time for Canada to enter war but pressured by Britain
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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 >> employed
150 000 workers
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1917 – Britain could no longer afford Canadian goods – Canada gained
money through taxes = tobacco, asked citizens and got 100 million from themintroduced victory bonds = 2 billion! – bonds in general covered 80% of the war’s
cost
Economy III
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Thomas White was the finance minister in Canada at the time
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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
POLITICS:
• Canada had a new and stronger relationship with Britain – Canada was
now being heard by other countries – Borden had to deal with Canada’s 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
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
AMERICANS
 SOCIAL:
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National War Labour Board – started at the beginning of the war
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Mediated labour disputes
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Resulting in improved wages, 8-hour work days and organized unions
AMERICANS
• Women started working in factories in jobs that were normally maleoriented
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Police officers
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Factory workers
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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
AFTER THE WAR
• even though women were put out of their jobs, returning soldiers still had
trouble finding work
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Government was no longer controlling prices and rationed goods
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Huge spike in prices of goods -> inflation
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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
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
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FBI was formed to control terrorism
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Huge amounts of Russian and other immigrants were deported
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Immigration was severely limited and restricted after that