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The Battle of the Atlantic began on September 3, 1939, with the sinking of the
Montréal-bound passenger ship SS Athenia by a German submarine west of Ireland. Of
the 1,400 passengers and crew, 118 (including four Canadians) were killed.
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The Battle of Britain ended when Germany's Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite Months of targeting Britains air bases, military post and, ultimatley, its civilian population
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The formation of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps during the Second World War is a milestone in the history of women’s participation in the Canadian military.
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The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II. On the same morning as the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan attacked British Hong Kong.
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Japanese Canadian Internment refers to the detainment of Japanese Canadians following the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong and Malaya and attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent Canadian declaration of war on Japan during World War II.
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•At this point, the future of Canada at war was unknown, but all Members of Parliament were focused on keeping Canada united. They would not permit a recurrence of the bloody events surrounding the First World War conscription. The majority agreed with the Prime Minister that no conscription would be imposed
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It was a battle that the Canadians did not expect to fight, in a town of no real strategic value and one that would see them pitted against one of the strongest, most motivated and elite German units in Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, the 1st Fallschirmjager Division. The epic action would become known throughout the Western allies as “Little Stalingrad”.
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From the fall of 1944 to the spring of 1945, the First Canadian Army played a major role in the liberation of the Netherlands and its people who had suffered terrible hunger and hardship under the increasingly desperate German occupiers. The warm friendship that Canada still enjoys with the Netherlands is a poignant reminder of the ultimate sacrifice made by thousands of Canadians and the enduring gratitude of the Dutch in ending the reign of tyranny in their country.
