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Life After WW1

Life After WW1. The transition from war to peace time was not easy. Soldiers returning from the war faced several issues: Lack of jobs (a lot of factories were geared towards producing war products)

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Life After WW1

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  1. Life After WW1

  2. The transition from war to peace time was not easy. Soldiers returning from the war faced several issues: Lack of jobs (a lot of factories were geared towards producing war products) Pay during the war did not increase along with inflation. They were not paid very well and the price of everything had gone up a great deal. 3. In many cases it took a year to bring the troops home after the end of the war due to difficulties with weather and organization.
  3. 4. Many soldiers suffered from shell shock but were not given the treatment they needed. (Current term is ptsd post traumatic stress disorder) There issues were dismissed as a result of “childishness and femininity”. 5. Many soldiers returned with serious physical injuries and illnesses. 6. Little or no financial compensation was given to the soldiers. 7. By 1921 20% of all veterans from world war 1 were unemployed.
  4. Women Widows of soldiers killed in the war had to apply for financial compensation. They had to be deemed to be fit to receive it and in many cases they were turned down. Many women lost their factory jobs as men returned home and things went back to ‘normal’.
  5. The Labour Movement Jobs were hard to find at this point and many employers did not pay fair wages. The government did little to correct this. Labour unions were formed to help workers bargain for better pay. This resulted in a great deal of labour unrest and often resulted in strikes.
  6. The Winnipeg General Strike Metal trades workers went on strike in Winnipeg. Thousands of other workers around the country joined them by going on strike themselves. Business leaders feared that this was the start of a Communist revolution as had happened in Russia in 1917. On June 21,1919 rioting broke out and police began firing on the crowd. Two people were dead and dozens more were injured and the labour movement was all but dead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0YhRekCXKw
  7. The Roaring 20s By the mid 1920’s more jobs were available as the economy improved. European countries had recovered from the war and were starting to buy Canadian products again. Wheat exports rose from $45.5 million in 1911 to $353.1 million in 1928. The next few years, often called the roaring 20s, produced a time of economic progress not seen before in Canada but trouble was coming.
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