GEOG 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fish Hooks, Infection, Japanese Canadians
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National selective service (nss): o o o o. Many studies conclude that mobilization policies in canada were comprehensive, centralized, coercive and compulsory (stevenson, 2001) Through the war measures act, the nss steered people towards either war- making or production that was essential to feed the war effort and produce material and weapons for the war. Stevenson argues that little coordination occurred between the various government departments responsible for canada"s war effort. Nss concerns were ignored by more powerful cabinet ministers. Canada"s historical role in developing nuclear weapons: o o o. Early in 1939, german scientists split, or fissioned, uranium atoms releasing energy. In 1940, the british enriched natural uranium asked americans for cooperation and canadians for uranium. Americans held off for a while, were not in the war yet (up until pearl. August 17, 1942: canada formally decided to engage in nuclear weapon development o o o. The quebec agreement of 1943: agreement between us, uk and canada.
