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The Interwar Years
Social Studies 11 Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| League of Nations | An association of widely popular nations whose purpose was to preserve world peace. |
| Arbitration | A process whereby quarrelling parties submit their dispute to a third party for a ruling. |
| Collective Security | When members of the League of Nations solemnly bound themselves to any member that was a victim of aggression. |
| Group of Seven | The most famous group of twentieth century artists from Canada. They rejectied realism, and used bold strokes, heavy paints, and contrast in their paintings. |
| Emily Carr | A British Columbian artist from Victoria who emerged in the 1920's and 1930's. She was a successful author and is one Canada's great artists. |
| Foster Hewitt | A famous hockey radio broadcaster who emerged in the 1920's who shouted "He shoots! He scores!" |
| Pier 21 | The pier in Halifax through which most European immigrants arrived. |
| Chanak Crisis | British sent troops to Chanak, Turkey because they feared that Turkey might occupy the British controlled port and then take control of the water way. PM King didn't let the British tell him to said troops claiming that only parliament could. |
| Imperial Conference 1926 | The conference where it was made public that Canada was in no way subordinate to Britain. |
| Balfour Report | A document that acknowledged that several of the British colonies were autonomous states including Canada. |
| Statute of Westminister | This recongnized in law that the Balfour Report made Canada an dominion free to make its own laws. |
| British Commonwealth of Nations | An associtation of free and equal states where memebership was based on an common allegiance the the British Crown. |
| Red Scare | Fear of communism. |
| Trade Unions | Groups of workers that fought for higher pay, imporved housing, job training programs, etc. |
| Collective Bargaining | Employers working and bargaining with their employees. |
| Bloody Saturday | June 21st 1919 a group of people protesting the fact that they could not protest or have parades etc., were hounded up, arrested, injured, and one killed. |
| Winnipeg General Strike | A strike that occured when Building and metal Trade workers went on strike asking for decent wages, and eight-hour work day, and the right to collective bargaining. |
| Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | A pro-worker political party, later to become the New Democratic Party or NDP. |
| King-Byng Crisis | PM King, did not resign after the election because his party had won. However, he began to start losing support and asked Governor General Lord Byng to dissolve parli, and Byng refuses to oblige. 1st time GG refused request to dissolve parli. |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | A group of woman in the US who got alcohol banned. |
| Prohibition | The banning of production, sales and consumption of alcohol. |
| Rum-runners | Alcohol smugglers |
| Agnes Macphail | Became the first Canadian female MP in 1921. |
| Famous Five | Five woman (Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney, and Irene Parlby) who pushed the Supreme Court to consider whether the term "person" in the Canadian constitution included women. |
| Emily Murphy | Became the first female judge in the British Empire as of 1916. However, many lawyers questioned her right preside claiming that women were not "persons" under the BNA act. |
| "Persons" case | The case brought the highest court of Canada, at the time the British Privy Council, by the PM and Famous Five, asking them that woman should be legally defined as persons. |
| Laissez faire | "Let them do it." or "Let it be done." |
| Supply and Demand | Supply is how much of the product there is, where as demand is how much the people want the product. The higher the supply, the less it costs while the higher the demand, the more it costs for the regular buyer. |
| Market Economy | Individual producers and consumers determine the kinds of goods and services produced, and the prices of those products. |
| Recession | When economic activity is on a decline. |
| Boom | A period of extreme prosperity. |
| Bust | A serious downturn that occurs after a boom. |
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