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?