Thank You!

Dear Class:

Thank you so much for everything you have done for me.
I enjoyed every class, I hope all the best to all of you.

Good luck on your life!

Have a great Easter weekend.

Mr. G

Final Quiz Review

April 20th, Wednesday
Slot 1 Quiz (WW1-WW2)
WW1
- Cause of WW1?
- Major Battles (Ypres 1,2, Somme, Vimy Ridge)
- New Weapon, technologies, Poison Gas
- Treaty of Versailles (double check spelling) 1919
- Conscription, its Crisis 1917 -> Conflict
- Women in WW1, involvement, rights, jobs
Winnipeg General Strike & Great Depression
- Sympathy Strike
- Bloody Saturday, June 17th, 1919 (Double Check!)
- Scabs
- Bolshevism
- Unemployment, numbers of people who were unemployed
- How it ended
- OBU (One Big Union)
- 25% of Canadians were unemployed
- Interment Camp for young men and workers
- Ottawa Trek, how it started, where it ended
- Prime Minister -> R.B. Bennett
- It was illegal not to have a job
WW2
- Germany, Italy and Japan against Britain, Canada, U.S., Russia
- Canada was assisting its allies
- Japanese Canadian Interment Camp in Canada
- Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941
- How the war started -> Invasion of Poland by Germany -> World Domination
- (How the war was ended -> Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by U.S.)

Quiz Review for General Strike and Great Depression

-General Strike?
 Industry Workers’ out of jobs
 “sympathy Strike” for the industry workers
 One Big Union – 1 small union -> get unionized
 OBU organized a big strike across Canada
 SCAB – who took the job from the strikers (Strike Breakers)
 30,000 people unemployed
 Laws against picketing
 Laws to negotiate the wages
 Started May 15th, 1919 - Ended June 26th
 Bloody Saturday, June 17th, 1919
o 1 person got killed in the strike
o Some people got injured
o Told to not strike, but did anyway
o Royal Northwest Mounted Police

-Great Depression?
 Life Style, poor living condition,
 25% people of the country was unemployed
 R.B. Benett – Prime Minister
 Farmer and crops were not profitable
 Interment camp – young employed, Eastern Europeans
 Some people got deported to home country
o Government was afraid of “Revolution”
 Bolshevik (means “Majority” in Russian)
 Ottawa Trek – made through to Regina
o Result – never made it to what they wanted in Ottawa

World War II Reading and Questionnaire

Class:

The required reading material for World War II is on the pick-up.
Courses->Canadian History->Pick-Up->GOTO->WW2

Pick up following two:

World War II questionaire Our Canada
World War II questionaire Our Canada Reading

Now, you may read and answer questions.

Mr. G

Bonus for You.

What was the story of Mr. G about the strike?

E-mail Mr. G if you can remember the story.

umgoto@cc.umanitoba.ca

I will provide you a bonus mark if you can answer properly.

One more day to go for this week, class!

Mr. G

Welcome Back, Class!

Guess what Mr. G did in Spring Break)

Good Morning Class:

I hope everyone had a great Spring Break.
Here is our new week.

-We will finish off the movie from the week before the Spring Break.

-We will get into the Winnipeg General Strike.

-After the movie, go on the computer.

-Go to "Course" -> "Canadian History" -> "Pick Up" -> "GOTO" -> "Winnipeg General Strike".

-Find the PDF file called "Labour's Year"

-Do the reading and questions. They are due Tuesday.
We will go over them on Tuesday.

Have a great week, class!

Mr. G

Test

Good luck class:)