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How did the dust bowl pose as a great roadblock and change for farmers? -
The Dust Bowl started throughout the Prairies in 1930 and lasted a century. That was the product of a bad drought, and it was caused by massive wind storms which lifted topsoil from dozens of farms. The remainder of the farmers' crops were ruined in a single year, causing many farmers to abandon their farms and seek work in the region. This also bought hundreds of thousands of grasshoppers ,consuming everything that's not damaged, like crops, gardens, and even clothes hung on clotheslines. -
What was the change that occurred when the Great Depression? -
Canadians experienced high rates of poverty, with roughly 30% of the workforce unemployed, resulting in citizens being evicted from their residences. One in every five Canadians depended on government assistance to just get by. Among the worst countries as Canada. Some citizens were still unemployed when Second World War broke out. There has been a debate of whether this happened as a consequence of a market crash or a drop in demand, yet whatever the cause, there weren't nearly enough jobs. -
What is the change that happened with the increase in production? -
This was a significant improvement from the Dust Bowl, which made farmers unable to grow any crops during the Great Depression. They couldn't grow any crops because it was covered in sand, and when people went to war again, there was a greater need for goods, so production increased. -
What changed in employment during WWII? -
When WWII was taking place, between 1939-1945, there were a lot of jobs that had to be filled by women when men and other women went off to war. Women worked in factories to build parts for airplanes, ammunition for weapons and building ships which men would have been doing had they not been recruited to go to war. This was necessary in order for supplies to be produced and sent to the troops fighting. -
This is an example of continuity because women started working men's jobs during WWI when they went to war and did it once again during WWII. This event also represents continuity because if you look at society today and women in the workplace we have come a long way. Women have jobs in factories and other places like that, this means we all had to start from somewhere and I believe this started in WWI and has continued to this day. -
How did women working during WWll impact society today? -
Women went from only being nurses in WWI to serving in uniform in WWII. Women were drivers on mechanical vehicles, messengers and telephone operators and more. Women during this time also made an organization called the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) which rounded up around 21,000 participants by the end of WWII. Lastly, the jobs that the women were taking had previously been predominantly men's jobs. -
This event is a change because in WWI women were only nurses in the war and not involved or allowed to be anything further but in WWII they actually began to be allowed to do more of the jobs that were more prominently "men's" jobs. -
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