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32 Cards in this Set
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• Canada declared war on Japan on
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Dec. 7, 1941.
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• Early 1942, the Canadian Gov’t required all Japanese Canadians to
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move from the Pacific Coast (about 23,000 people- ¾ were Canadian citizens)
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yellow menace”
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japenese people
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property or belongings the Japanese had were
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confiscated, then sold to pay for their internment.
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the end of the war, they were forced to move out of
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BC or be “repatriated” to Japan.
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weren’t permitted to return to the coast of BC until
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1949.
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• Japanese were not given the vote until
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1949.
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• 1988, Can. gov’t apologized & paid
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21,000 to each survivor
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big concern
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• Inflation
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1941 the Wartime Prices and Trade Board froze all
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wages and prices.
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• War bonds were used to ensure people
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people saved money, rather than spend.
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introduces Food rationing
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• 1942
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• The CCF also
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enjoyed more popularity
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Unemployment Insurance
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1940
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Family Allowance to assist families.
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1945
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British PM, Chamberlain made a deal with Hitler.
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Sept. 1938
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• Germany was allowed
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Sudetenland
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• By March 1939
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Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia
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invading Poland
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Sept. 1, 1939
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, Britain and France declared War on Germany
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• On Sept 3, 1939
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• Germany, Italy & Japan were known as the
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Axis
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• France & Britain (& commonwealth) were known as the
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Allies
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• Blitzkrieg, (lightening war
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consisted of coordinated aerial attack, mechanized armor (tanks) and infantry.
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Winston Churchill replaces Chamberlain as British P.M.
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may
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• Charles DeGaulle fled to Britain to lead the resistance
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Free French)
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• Southeast France governed by French-Nazi collaborators
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Vichy French)
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• June 22, 1940
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, France surrendered, leaving Britain and the Commonwealth to stand alone against Germany.
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Germans began bombing Dunkirk
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• May 28
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• This concrete chain of artillery was called
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The Maginot Line
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Allies were surrounded at the town
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Dunkirk.
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happened for 7 months (Sept-April), the
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“Phony War”.
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• France built strong fortifications on the
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• France built strong fortifications on the
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