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World War 2 (The Holocast (In 1942 The Nazi launched the Final Solution.…
World War 2
The Holocast
In 1942 The Nazi launched the Final Solution. in which they descried as the "Jews problem".The Nazi soldiers rounded up Jewish men, women and children and send them to concentration camps, which were found throughout Germany and Poland.Homosexuals, Roma (Gypsies) and people with mental or physical illness were prisoners in the camps.Healthy prisoners were send to work and the rest were killed in gas chambers in which they disguised as showers. The gas chambers only took a few minutes for it to kill these innocent victims. The soldiers would them drag them out of the chambers and strip them down and placed their remains in massive ovens for cremation.
The healthy prisoners that went to work in Nazi labor camps worked 16 hours a day, with only one bowl of broth and a piece of bread each day.Electrified bared wires surrounded the camps and Nazi soldiers guarding the camps eager to shoot anyone who crossed the line. Nazi scientists preformed horrific medical experiments on some prisoners.
When the Allied forces found about the horrific secret the Nazi have been hiding.Although people have heard rumors about the death camps only a few people believed about the massive genocide that could take place.
In the end, six million Jews had lost their lives during the Holocaust Nazis had kept photographs and records on how many people were in the camps and how many were killed. This evidence the the allied forces had found was used against the Nazis in charging the Nazi with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Soldiers who had killed and herded people could not deny their crimes. In the end the original 22 defendants at the Nuremberg Trials. 12 received death penalties, 7 others received prison terms and 3 were not found guilty.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a powerful and infamous Nazi Leader. Hitler had presiaded Germany that the only way to go was war. at this time Germany was in need of a strong leader and Hitler had proved to know what he was doing and he could take Germany out of its misery.
When Hitler became in power in 1933, he made preparations for war, Hitler Took over many different countries, However Germany again took a great fall, when the Allied forces defeated Germany in May 1945 ending world war 2.
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Battles
The battle of Britain was the first defeat of Germany had faced. Hitler's plan was to bomb Britain and pave the way for a direct invasion.The German air force caused great damage in Britain. In September they stated to bomb London and other major cities which Britain called "the blitz".Eighty Canadian pilots joined Britain to fight off the German army.In the early days 16 Canadians had lost their lives but things started to improve overtime and soon the battle for Britain was over. The Allied forces shot down 3000 German aircraft while losing 900 of their own.
The Battle of Ortona was the biggest test for Canadian soldiers. The Germans bombed down buildings so the soldiers had to leave the tanks behind and go on foot. They went form house to house on foot using the method called "mouseholing". The soldiers blasted a hole in the outside wall of a house at the end of the street, they then throw in grenades to clear the house before charging in and clearing the rest of the house with machine guns, soon they would move to the attic and blasted a hole in the wall to the adjoining house and repeated the process all over again.For a week the Canadian solider fought a fierce and intense battle and finally two days after Christmas, they succeed in driving the Germans out of Ortona. they lost over 2300 officers and soldiers while fighting.
In the fall 1941 the Japanese troops invaded pats of China and defeated them.Hong Kong feared that its Pacific colony would be next. Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked Canada for help with defense. King agreed to Churchill's request and in November 2000 soldiers from Quebec's Royal Rifles and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were send to Hong Kong.On December 7, just hours after the attack on pearl Harbor, over 50 000 Japanese troops invaded Hong Kong. The Allies were outnumbered by a majority, however they still fought for 17 days and on Christmas day,1941 the British commander surrendered.
War on The Home Front
Wartime Agreements
In December 1939 Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada signed the British Commonwealth Air Training Program (BCATP)to train the air force pilots.
in 1940 there was a growing concern that is Britain fell to the Nazis. North America would be Hitler's next target, so in response to this the United States and Canada signed the Ogdensburg Agreement which created the permanent joint board on defense to coordinate the defense of both countries
In 1941, the Lend-Lease Act allowed The United States to sell war products to any country they wanted meaning that Britain could buy supplies from the US without delay payment, however if Britain were to start buying products from the US they would buy less from Canada, so in response to this the Hyde Park Agreement made sure that US brought supplies from Canada which allowed Britain to buy supplies from Canada as well, while under the term off the Lend-Lease Act.
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Women
Women's wartime role
In 1941 their was a shortage of workers, so the governmnet launched a campign to get women to the work pay force. Before the war started only 21 percent of women worked. However when the war started thousands of women sighned up to work on the home front
Women worked in many different jobs such as welders, machinist, bus drivers and munitions workers. In rural worked in farms.And those who could join the work pay force volunteered, knitting scarves, and socks for soldiers fighting in the overseas.
Women improved their social and economic status and were making way more than they used to make but they still got payed less than the working men they replaced.When the war had ended many women gave up their jobs and returned to their original lives but some stayed in the work force. These women planted a seed for the women's right movement.
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The Conscription Crisis
With Germany's success in Europe and the expansion of the war into the Pacific had put pressure on the conscription.
In April 1942, King held a plebiscite so he could ask Canadians to let go of his pledge. 79 percent said yes and 72 percent of french Canadians voted no. Even with the votes out king still waited on conscription until 1944. At this time the Allies were close to winning the war, however the battle to liberate Europe had casualties mounting.
In November 1944, King issued an Order-In-Council to send 16,000 troops
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