HISTORY 2TT3 Lecture 13: WWII - the Home Front
8 Mar 2017
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World war ii - the home front: total war. Total war: government takes control of most aspects of canadian lives. Monitors the sex habits of its citizens, becomes concerned with homosexuality: 1/3 of adult canadians directly involved in the war effort. 1944: 37. 6% of gdp: final push that gets canada out of the great depression - unemployment drops below 1% Rationing and nutrition: save materials to be sent overseas. The coupon allowed you to buy those products: government told people what to eat, doctors had a sense of what a healthy diet was and the lack of food during the war, victory gardens. Investing -> victory bonds and taxation: targeted women to buy the bonds, recognizing that women were working again. Recycling: scrap metal was used to build ships and other military machines. The minister of everything : minister of munition and supply: c. d. His powers became very broad reaching and extended past the war,
