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stock market crash
people started to invest in stocks to try and get money after losing there jobs but after a while so many people cashed in there stocks that the stock market ran out of money and everyones stocks were useless -
Cairine Wilson
she was the first woman elected to be in the senite -
dust bowl
there was a drought in the prairies and everything dried up till dirt that was once perfict for growing in was dry sand that would get picked up but wind and make giant dust clouds and you could see from miles away and because it is so dry there were many bugs that would come in clouds sometimes big enough to covor the sun and these clouds would come and destroyy everything in secounds then leave like they were never there -
dunkirk
hitler decided to retreat and over 340,000 prisoners escaped back to Britain with the help of anyone in britain with a big enough boat to help people -
the battle of Hong Kong
Canadian soldiers were sent to hong kong incase japan attacked but Britain never thought Japan would actually attack and when they did it was disastrous and many canadians surendered and were sent to camps and died a worse death then if they had fought -
Japanese Canadians
after Japan invaded Hong Kong, Canada started shipping everyone with a Japanese heritage back to Japan or to internment camps where they most likely died a horrible death, they were shipping them all off because it didn't matter if you lived in Canada and was born in Canada the Canadian thought you were Japanese spies -
woman during ww2
woman were finally allowed to join the navy, air force, and army, they also worked in the factory making wepons and cars, planes boats and other stuff our soldirs might need the children helped to making care packages with socks and boots and stuff to keep the soldirs warm -
The Dieppe Raid
the dieppe raid was when the canadians went to try and get the machiene the germans were useing to comunicate with the submerrens but when they got there they found that there was a huge cliff and the germans were waiting at the top and started to kill us off as we came up the beach and we wound up losing 6,000 soldirs that day
