LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: First Red Scare, Roaring Twenties, Gross National Product
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Roaring twenties knwn as a time of people having a good time, making lots of money, partying a lot. Cape beton coal strikes generally defeted through the resolve of employers by getting state power. Communism strike: this makes 20"s difficult, many business leaders are very impressed by this, after the bolshivek revolution, a lot of this comes in. Percentage of population less than : men 60, women 82, more than families in canada went w/o the basics. The economy was the worst it"s ever been. Scale: 1932 unemployment was 30, decline 29-33. The economy in 39 didn"t recover that well. The worst was the west dust bowl. For a lot of the cities, that serviced the farms they were in tough conditions. Other regions northern ontario some mining places that were good place to be. In other parts of this region was shut down. The beginning of the depression all of items were the same.