WWll
Genocide
Anti-Semitism in Canada
In 1940, Jews and Germans were put into internment camps in Quebec and New Brunswick
Scared that Nazism would become a problem, Prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King denied thousands of Jews seeking refuge.
In 1933, Nazi supporters held up a flag of the swastika in Christie Pits Park, Toronto during a baseball game
A priest in Quebec said he was against Jews seeking refuge in Canada on the radio
Nazi Propaganda
Used propaganda to convince the citizens of Germany that they were right and they should be worshipped
Nuremberg Laws
In Nuremberg in 1935, Nazi Germany released new laws that stripped rights away from Jews
Rape of Nanking
Mass killings of Chinese civilians by the Japanese. Went on from December 1937-January 1938
Stages of isolation
5. Aftermath
4. Death camps
3. Concentration camps
2. Segregation
1. Stripping of rights
S.S. St. Louis
On May 7, 1939, 900+ Jews were on route to Havana, Cuba but only 29 Jews were accepted in. The rest were sent to America, where they waited for months to see if they would get accepted or not. At the end of the Holocaust, 254 of them were dead.
Final solution
Nazi's decided to put the people in concentration camps into death camps
Holocaust
Massive killings of Jews and people of non-Aryan race
Burn by fire
Nazi Education
In 1933, all Jewish teachers were fired
Were taught to worship Adolf Hitler
When Hitler became leader of Nazi Germany, he instantly changed the school curriculum. He made it so that children were learning what the best race and look was and what was the worst, being people of non-Aryan race.
Canada and WWll
CD Howe
Mackenzie King's Cabinet
Mackenzie King
Prime Minister of Canada during WWII
Camp X
The name of a secret training school in Ontario
D-Day
June 6, 1944, Allies invaded Normandy, France.
Allies used empty tents, dummy boats, inflated rubber tanks to trick German soldiers into thinking that the Allies would arrive at Calais Used lesson learned from Dieppe raid: Germans can defend their own ports so there were 2 new harbours built in Britain
Italian Campaign
Italy and the allies fought so that the allies could defeat the Axis powers. The battle took place in San Marino, Italy. From July 1943-May 1945.
Dieppe
During the Second World War, the Allies launched a major raid on the German-owned beach off the coast of France.
Raid was a failure.
Total War
Limits resources like food and water
Canadian government controls the economy.
Japanese Internment
Japanese-Canadians were thrown into internment camps because the government thought they were spies helping out Japan
Battle of Hong Kong
Japan attacks Hong Kong for 17 days until China surrenders on Christmas. 2,000 Canadians troops join, many never even shot a rifle
Pearl Harbour
December 7, 1941 Japan unexpectedly attacked and bombed a naval base in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. US enters the war after
Battle of Britain
July 10, 1940, Military campaign where RAF (Royal air force) defended Britain against Nazi’s air force attacks
Evacuation of Dunkirk
Evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, northern France. In May-June 1940
Battle of Stalingrad
Where Germany, Italy, and Japan fought the Soviet Union for the control of Stalingrad, Russia.
Japanese Aggression
Territories of the Soviet Union were taken over
Parts of China were taken over
Japan started taking territories under its power
Conscription Crisis
Riots in Quebec began in order to protest
King held a vote for conscription: All provinces said yes except Quebec
Subtopic
End of WWll
VJ Day
Victory over Japan
A day celebrated on August 15 in the UK because of Japan's surrender
VE Day
Victory in Europe
A day to celebrate Germany's surrender on May 8
Atomic bombs
Nagasaki
The atomic bomb was called "Fat boy"
On August 9, 1945, the US dropped another bomb on Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Atomic bomb was called "Little boy"
On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, city in Japan
Bombing
When Germany surrendered, Japan did not. All the Allies wanted the war to end and discussed how to get Japan to surrender
Manhattan project
By July 1945, America had already built 3 atomic bombs
Secret name of America creating nuclear bomb
Road to war
Treaty of Versailles
A treaty with a bunch of rules signed by the Allied powers and Germany to end World War I
Hitler disobeyed
Munich Agreement
Signed September 1938
An agreement signed by Germany, Italy, Britain, and France to declare that Germany would take over Western Czechoslovakia.
Appeasment
The Allies give out policy in order to prevent the war
This was a failure
Nazi-Soviet Pact
An agreement signed by the USSR and Nazi Germany. Agreement was to not fight each other.
Allies
Britain, Soviet Union, China, United States
Axis
Germany, Japan, Italy
League of Nations
An organisation to keep peace during WWII
Isolationism
National policy avoiding being tangled up between countries
Blitzkreig
A military tactic. Germans used tanks and aircraft to quickly attack the Allies. Germans tried the Blitzkrieg in Poland in Spring of 1940.
Leaders
Adolf Hitler
Germany's leader
Nazi
National Socialist German Workers Party
Swastika
Nazi Party's symbol
Extremely fascist, nationalist, and wanted all control
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union's leader
Communist
Political, economical, and social system that has "classless" citizens
Mussolini
Fascist
Intense nationalism and to be in control
Italy's leader
Winston Churchill
Prime minister of Britain
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