Unit II: The Interwar Years

I. Search for Security

Text pp. 69-70

A. The Search for Security:The League of Nations [text p. 69]

1) Structure and Goals

a) International Cooperation

b) Arbitration

• Disputes settled by talking before going to war

c) Collective Security

• Aggressors halted by economic sanctions instead of war

2) Why the League of Nations didn’t work

a) Not all nations were members

b) The League had no way to enforce anything

Unit II: The Interwar Years

II. Canada in the Interwar YearsText pp. 70-85

A. Canada in the 1920sText pp. 70-76

1) After the War: Pessimism [p. 70]

a) Unhappy soldiers waiting to return home

Inadequate shipping: not enough boats!

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b) Soldiers felt their pensions weren’t enough for what they endured.

c) Soldiers had a hard time returning to normal jobs

d) Disillusionment: French and English Canada

The effects of the Conscription controversy were not healed.

@#&>~!!

2) Social Changes: Optimism [pp. 70-71]

a) Activities: enjoyed with the economic boom

b) Art

- Group of 7- Emily Carr

c) Inventions

- Radio

(Foster Hewitt: “He shoots! He scores!”)

- Automobile

(Jobs, travel, vacations, suburbs)

d) Immigration

• 1919: Immigration Act closes immigration from “enemy nations.

• 1915-25: 400, 000 people leave Canada• Mid 1920s: Canada encourages immigration again

Most immigrants land at Halifax’s Pier 21.

Assignment:

Do your notations up to p. 76