HIST 2500 Lecture 14: Lecture Notes
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Lecture: prime minister learned some lessons from ww1, ppl were born in countries such as germany and they became enemies as well, power was there in ww1. Agenda: canada at war, managing the economy, war propaganda, military campaigns, tensions in canada, conscription and national unity, enemy aliens. Previously: great depression started in 1929, while farmers were living, they had to deal with sever drop and sand storms, ppl wanted decent jobs, great depression was not over by 1939. In fact, events took place in europe which changed shit. Canada at war: mackenzie king, prime minister (1935- First challenge they faced was how to mobilize the economy. Managing the economy europe in 1939: what it looked like in the eve of ww2. Look what happened in less than a couple of weeks. It lost: half of its territory was occupied by germany, britian was left to defend itself, by june 1940, things not looking good for britian.
