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The Great Depression was a worldwide economic crash which lasted almost a decade. People mostly believe that this occurred because of the US stock market crash of 1929. Stocks began to decrease in their worth, as stocks in 1932 were only worth 20% of what they used to be. By 1935 almost all farms were lost due to bankruptcy or little to no sales. Farmers couldn't afford to run their farms support their families or even end up abandoning their farms and looking for new jobs in cities.
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This was a big change for farmers because before The Great Depression, people heavily relied on farmers and their businesses to provide food for their families. However, when the worlds economy crashed, farmers felt an abandonment in their work that they had never felt before.
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While Hitler was in power, he decided that he didn't like any people that had anything to do with Jewish a background and wanted them gone. He gradually did things to single out anyone with any strain of Jewish blood. Eventually this led to the Jews being led out of Germany and even taken to camps to be murdered. This was a big change because before, no one cared if you had Jewish blood in you or not. However, Hitler cared and made everyone suffer because of it.
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The Holocaust is when Jews were treated significantly bad and forced to leave Germany by Hitler. In 1939, 907 Jews fled Germany by getting on a ship called the MS St. Louis. They sailed around and were denied entry to Cuba and several American countries. On June 7, they were denied access into Canada. Canadian government stated that they are not willing to allow hundreds of thousands Jews to evacuate into their country and that "the line needed to be drawn somewhere".
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During WWII, need for food was very important. This was because soldiers needed food to fuel their bodies in order to fight and be strong. Since there were so many people involved in the war, lots of food was needed to be produced. This caused farmers to rapidly increase their production of goods. Between 5 years, farmers cash income tripled. It went from $4.4 billion to $12.3 billion. This is a huge increase which was good for farming business. -
Women had already earned the right to vote in 1918, this was continued through time and women gained more and more rights. We continued to progress but maintained how women were able to vote and eventually now gender is equal with our time.
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This was a different way for farmers because during the Great Depression many farmers lost their farms and went bankrupt. However, now, only a few years later, their business is booming and increasing fast.
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On April 25, 1940, women gained the right to vote in provincial elections in Quebec. During the first world war, Nellie McClung campaigned all around the country to let women vote and successfully won over everyone except Quebec. However, after many continuous years of fighting for what she believed was right, she finally achieved her goal and women were able to vote in provincial elections in Quebec.
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In 1941, since so many soldiers had gone off to fight in the second world war, there wasn't enough men left to work their jobs. This is when woman were needed in order to assist the Canadian army in manufacturing, building machines and working the jobs at home while their husbands and sons were out fighting. There were over 1,200,000 women that took over and were working several different jobs to help out their country.
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This changed more throughout the years because during the beginning of WWI, women were limited to the amount of work they were allowed to do.However, during the second world war, over a million women were employed. In our life now, women and men work equally in the jobs they do and any gender can do any job they would like.
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Over many years of several presidents, no one ever apologized for how we treated the Japanese Canadians back in 1942. However, eventually on September 22, 1988, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, chose to step up and attempt to make things right again by apologizing on behalf of the Canadian Government. We have changed our ways since then and would never treat anyone or group like this.
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In February, 1942, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, in reaction to what had occurred in Pearl Harbor, ordered that "'any and all persons' were detained from any 'protective area'". This was used to target the Japanese Canadians. On March 16th, 8,000 detainees were taken, kept in the livestock buildings and had all personal items taken from them. The Japanese Canadians were forced to go to Japan or go into these terrible living conditioned camps. Mackenzie King showed no remorse.
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