Grade 10 History – Roaring 20s and Dirty 30s Jeopardy II Great Depression Rise of HitlerSolving...

Grade 10 History – Roaring 20s and Dirty 30s Jeopardy II

Great Depression

Rise of Hitler Solving the Depression

Society 1930s Immigration

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The region in Canada with the highest unemployment rate

during the Depression

What is the Prairies?

The name given to first day of the Stock Market crash,

29 October 1929

What is Black Tuesday?

Many farmers could not afford gas for their cars. Instead, the took out the engine and

hooked the chassis to a horse. These “hybrids” were

given this name.

What was Bennett Buggies?

The event when the drought on the Prairies resulted in the topsoil being blown away by

in wind.

What is the Dust Bowl?

Young men were sent to work in these areas far from the

cities

What are Labour Camps?

The treaty to end WW1 that Hitler despised.

What is Treaty of Versailles?

In 1933, Hitler claimed the Communists burned this building in an attempt to

overthrow his government.

What is the German Parliament?

The title Hitler gave himself once he controlled Germany

as a dictator.

What is Führer?

The group Hitler blamed for all the Germany’s economic

woes.

What is Jews?

The name of the law that gave Hitler power to ignore the German Parliament and enact new laws to “protect”

Germany

What is the Enabling Act?

The name for Prime Minister Bennett’s program of reforms

What is New Deal?

The smallest amount of money you can make at your

part-time job.

What is Minimum Wage?

The number of hours reduced from 60 to 48 each week

What is Maximum Work Week?

$5.

What is the amount of money Prime

Minister Bennett secretly gave from his personal

fortune to people who sent him a letter asking for help?

The reason many parts of the Bennett’s plan were rejected.

What is Ultra Vires…a law or change that goes beyond the

jurisdiction of the government?

Unemployed men riding the “rails”

What are Hobos?

The new political party that formed to ensure

governments take a greater role in the economy and providing more help to

people. It later changed its name to the New Democratic

Party (NDP).

What is the Cooperative

Commonwealth Federation (CCF)?

$4.22 per person per week

What is the weekly food allowance during the

Depression?

People lined up for food

What is a Bread Line?

By 1933, over 400,000 Canadians needed this to survive

What is charity or government relief?

NOTE: Today, it might be called welfare.

This 1923 law stopped Chinese immigration

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

This skill was needed to populate Canada’s Prairies.

What was farmer?

“Red Scare”

What is the fear of Eastern European Communists after

the 1917 Russian Revolution?

40%

What is the percentage of immigrants from Great Britain

between 1920 and 1940?

Immigrants from this country were not “desired”

following WW1.

What is Germany?