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1940 - 1949 (highlights (Canada also played an important role in the…
1940 - 1949
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Canada also played an important role in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ("A secret spy school")
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Women worked in munitions factories, trained as nurses, and took over jobs in offices, on farms and in factories that had been left by men who enlisted
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Japanese Canadians were badly treated but other " enemy aliens" (canadians and non canadians of German, Italian, Ukrainian backgrounds) were also targeted
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the federal government increased a social safety net for its citizens and in 1940, it passed the Unemployment Insurance act. In 1945 the family allowance was introduced
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Canada joined the United Nations in 1945 and the North AtlanticTreaty Organization in 1949 marked the shift of a more isolated position in 1930
The war led tomany technological advancements including planes and automobiles, the first transistor, artificial intelligence, 45-rpm records etc.
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War on Land
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Belgium, The scheldt estuary, and the liberation of the netherlands
- the first Canadian targets were assigned to move towards - - - Antwerp (controlled by the germans)
- Germans opened dikes to flood roads and fields
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Air War
- British commonwealth air training plan
- Battle of Britain (July - October 1940)
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- Bomber command = Largest canadian air envolvment
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Internment camps
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Italy declared war, Italian canadians were taken from their homes and interned