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Crimes Against Humanity
In The 1930’s the Anti-Semitic and racist views of the Hitler & the Nazi government were all well known. Hitler ordered all the Jewish people and “undesirables” to be shipped to the concentration camps. For these crimes in 1945 the allies established a military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany they prosecuted Nazi, and others for atrocities liberators of Japanese pow camps. Since many of japans wartime acts violated the international law.
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CANADIAN RESPONSE: ISOLATE, JEWISH REFUGEES WAR
In the 1930’s, Canada practiced isolationism that kept affairs outside its borders. King would conflict because Canada was just starting to come out of the dark years. The attitude influenced Canada’s immigration policies and the attitudes toward Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Europe. Some Canadians policies and hating the Jewish people. The Jewish refugees were seen as burden on the state so the government restricted immigration in the 1930’s. King was urged to offer the Jewish refugee -
THE CAUSES: HITLER IMERIALISM, LEAGUE OF NATIONS, TATALITARISM
In the 1933, Hitler came to power, and he intended for Germany to be a powerful nation. Part of his plan involved the “master race” of Germanic people and taking back Germany by ordering his troops into Rhineland, an area under French protection. In March 1939, Hitler broke his promise to Germany and Germany invaded Poland, but Britain and France responded immediately. Britain and France ordered Germany out of Poland by a certain date, but Germany ignored the deadline and Britain and France dec -
AXIS ADVANCE: DUNKIK BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Within the declaration of war in September 1939, the allies of Germany, Italy, and Japan became known as the axis, also allied troops stationed along France’s border with Germany renewed it’s blitzkrieg (“lightning war”), attacking Denmark and Norway. Blitzkrieg was an extremely successful war tactic that used surprise, speed, and massive power to quickly overwhelm the enemy. Within days of launching the attack on France through Belgium, German panzers reached the English Channel and surrounded -
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THE BEGINNING: VOTE BCATP, TOTAL WAR
September 8, king called a special session of parliament to decide whether Canada would go to war and then after that kings position on joining the war was supported by the conservative party. On September 10, 1939, Canada declared war on Germany but Canada was not prepared for war and also the Canadian army only had 4300 troops, but soon 5800 people volunteered for service. In December 1939, Canada agreed to host and run the British Commonwealth air training plan, (BCATP) and the program was a -
7: Canada's Contributions
Waves tug at the stomachs of sailors shipping out to the Atlantic war. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) had grown since then to four hundred vessels and hundred thousand sailors rather than thirteen ships and one thousand eight hundred nineteen soldiers at sea, all thanks to the massive building and training programs. 1941 saw the battle start full-throttle with Canadian supply ships being pounced on by German U-boats. Things looked grim until the British cracked the German Naval Code and Woman’s -
8: Tide's Turn
The unforgiving tides turn their cold waters as America enters conflict in December of 1941. By the half-point of the following year the Soviet Union lost one million brave men to the invading Germans, thereby the Allies plan a series of attacks. Four at the crack of dawn along the coast with the main battle taking place in Dieppe. August 19th 1942, a stroke of misfortune brought a ship face to face with a German convoy. Thus, ships were delayed and the troops were forced to unload in broad day -
The Tide turns
In 1941 the United States joined the allies and that was the beginning of the Tides turning. It started with the Dieppe Raid having soldiers travel across by boat; they thought it would be easier to invade Germany on the West front. They ended up getting stuck in the sand and it was poorly planned out. The Italian Campaign attacked Germany from the underbelly of Europe. By July 1943 Canadians proved themselves fearful once again. -
6: War in the Pacific
Crowded shoulder to shoulder, Japan’s populace demanded more land and there was only one means of getting it. War. The 1930’s saw Japan begin to campaign to expand its territories, thus by 1941, troops prepared themselves to invade American and European colonies with the need to gain control over oil, rubber, and tin resources. With the element of surprise under their wings, Japanese bomber planes flew by as the Pearl Harbour lit up in a fiery explosion, only a few hours later, Britain’s Hong K -
War At Home
In 1944 Canada produced 1400 tanks and personnel carriers. As in the First World War women joined war industries worked as welders, drillers and punch press. Women were in high demand as factory workers and many had to move from rural areas. With the government funding some of the companies built close to their factories for house workers. So much had increased production and the employment, suddenly people had more money, but at the same time there were fewer goods to buy. The prime minister, -
9: Doom's Day
A day appropriately named “Doom’s Day” rained over the heads of many Europeans June 6th 1944, in which Allies planned to initiate “Operation Overload.” Trooped were planned to unload on five beaches along Normandy’s coast at northern Europe. These five beaches were code named, Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah. The plan went as follows; planes are to fly overhead as soldiers cut communications and descending paratroopers float behind enemy lines with the final touch of bombs hitting targets on -
D-Day
In June of 1944 the allies landed a full scale invasion of Europe called “Operation Overload”. This was a long a five beach 80- km stretch of land with Para troops going behind enemy lines. In June 1944 14 000 Canadian soldiers had arrived at Juno beach. The soldiers had to get past the German defence in order to take the beach. The battle of Scheldt happened in October 1944 and the Canadians were given the task to clear enemy troops and they achieved their goal after a month of fighting. In Feb -
Japan surrenders
After the victory in Europe the war in the pacific intensified. By mid-1945 most of the Japanese Air force and Navy were destroyed. In March 1945 Americans began fire-booming Japanese cities. Even though fire-booming killed thousands of people the Japanese said they would fight. In 1942 the Americans began building an atomic bomb and they notified Canada about it. August 1945 American bomber plane dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, three days later another plane dropped a bomb over Nagasaki -
Changes In Cananda
In the end of the Second World War marked beginning of the population boom in Canada. People who had to post pone their marriages because of the war they had to start a family. Families were larger than the ones today such as three or four children. After the war the developers to begin to build thousands of new homes for Canada’s new growing population.
Many people were in outlying parts of the citied where land wasn’t as expensive.
