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The Dust Bowl occured in the Prairies and started in 1930 lasting a decade. It was a product of a massive drought and it was very large wind storms consisting of lifted topsoil from hundreds of farms. This destroyed most of the farmers' crops in a year forcing many farmers to abandon their farms and set off to seek work in the city. This also brought millions of grasshoppers who ate everything else that was not destroyed such as crops, gardens and even clothes that were on the clothes lines.
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This event was a change because before this took place farmers were able to produce crops as normal but then with this terrible event happening and crops being destroyed they were no longer able to produce as normal.
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This was a very big change from before the Great Depression when there were many jobs that were being filled by people. Then, when it hit people were then unable to support their families, they didn't have money to put food on the table and they didn't have money to send their kids to school in the clothing they needed. There were also people with no money to see a doctor if they were ill. This was all because of the loss of so many jobs due to the great depression.
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Canadians suffered high levels of poverty with around 30% of the working population unemployed, even resulting in people being left homeless. 1 in 5 Canadians depended on government relief in order to survive. Canada was one of the worse affected. Until the second world war began, many people were still unemployed. There is an ongoing debate whether this happened because of a stock market crash or because of a drop in demand, whatever the cause it resulted in there not being near enough jobs.
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In 1939 to 1945 when WWII was going on, farmers were producing so much more crops as they were producing crops that were to be sent over to the troops fighting in the war.
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This was a big change from the Great Depression when farmers were unable to produce any crops at all due to the Dust Bowl. They were not able to produce any crops because evenrything was covered in sand and then once people went to war again, they were then in higher demand for supplies and production ramped up again.
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When WWII was taking place, between 1939-1945, there were many jobs that had to be filled by women as men and other women went off to war. They worked in factories to build parts for airplanes, they built ammunition and also parts for ships as the 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.
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This is an example of change because before the war, during the Great Depression, there were not very many people who were employed and all the jobs that did happen to be available went to men. Then when WW2 started up and many men went to fight, women changed over and went to fill their positions in the jobs that'd been left behind and a change from when that took place in WW1 was the fact that women now had supervisor positions in the workplace.
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Women were working in factories and taking over all of the jobs that the men would have been doing but had to leave behind to go fight during WWII. They had to take over these jobs so that products were still able to be produced for the army fighting the war.
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This is an example of continuity because women took over men's jobs during WWI when they went to war and did it once again during WWII. This event also represents continuity because look at how far we have come today. Women have jobs in factories and other places like that, this meaning we all had to start from somewhere and I believe this started in WWI and has continued to this day.
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Women went from only being nurses in WWI to serving in uniform in WWII. They were drivers on mechanical vehicles, messengers and telephone operators and more. The women also made an organization called Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) which had around 21,000 participants by the end of WWII. And the jobs that the women were taking had previously been predominantly men's jobs.
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This event is a change because in WWI women were only nurses in the war not involved in anything further but in WWII they actually began to be involved by starting to do more of the jobs that were more just "mens" jobs.
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