HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -April 4 – Henry George Carroll becomes Quebec’s 16th Lieutenant Governor. May 29 – A series of explosions rip through Ottawa’s sewer system. October 18 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules in the Persons Case that women are eligible to be senators. November 13 – A second stock market crash hits Canada.
Detailed explanation-2: -Contributing Factors. Due to low crop prices and high machinery costs, more submarginal lands were put into production. Farmers also started to abandon soil conservation practices. These events laid the groundwork for the severe soil erosion that would cause the Dust Bowl.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the Great Depression, children and their families were greatly impacted-millions lived in poverty and had very little to eat, let alone money to spare for entertainment.
Detailed explanation-4: -But as the United States entered the Great Depression, wheat prices plummeted. In desperation, farmers tore up even more grassland in an attempt to harvest a bumper crop and break even. Crops began to fail with the onset of drought in 1931, exposing the bare, over-plowed farmland.