Socials 11. Wednesday September 26th, 2018

1. Housekeeping:  Assignments are due

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2. Is the Treaty of Versailles Historically Significant? Why?

3. Another view on the Treaty. Video

An Uneasy Adjustment:  page 62

1.           What is "inflation"?

2.           What is "communism" and How did it affect Canada after WWI?

3.           How did the British Empire Steel Corporation attempt to deal with a declining market for its goods after WWI?

4.           What is a "socialist"?

5.           Why did union leaders in Western Canada create the OBU in 1919? 

Canada’s Changing Economy:  pages 63-66

6.           What aspects of Canada's economy were booming by the mid-1920s?

7.           How did Canada's trade change after WWI?

8.           What does the term "branch plant" mean?

9.           How was US investment in Canada in the 1920s different from earlier British investments.

10.        What are "tariffs"?

11.        What aspects of the Canadian economy would be dominated by US investors by the end of the 1920s?

12.        What is a "primary industry" vs. “secondary industry”?

13.        What is a disadvantage of exporting raw materials form Canada?

14.        What were the goals of the labour movement in the 1920s?