HIST 325 Lecture Notes - Winnipeg General Strike, Solidarity Action, War Profiteering
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Took a year to move around the world: spread via ships and railways (congregations) Atypical influenza: epidemiology: 1st april-aug; 2nd (more deadly) sept 1918-oct 1919, peaked oct-nov 1918. In canada: lots of volunteers which increased contact, specialists got called on first then caught disease and died or were in the war, congregation couldn"t meet up or would catch disease. Known as the forgotten pandemic : why: everywhere spanish flu faded from public awareness, the forgetting lasted until the pandemics of bird flu, sars, etc. in the. Outbreak was overshadowed by the deaths and media focus in the closing year of wwi. Majority of fatalities, from both the war and the epidemic, were among young adults, thus, the fatality lists merged in the public eye. Duration of the pandemic vs. that of the war. Lecture: winnipeg general strike 1919: another international phenomenon, 1919-1925. Returned veterans demonstrate against jailing of strike leaders.
