HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Senate Of Canada, Mountain Pass
8 May 2017
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Growing openness about reunions shows a rising nationalism and a willingness to celebrate history. Film portrays them in a very foreignized light. Japan wanted to expand empire as much as they could, invading china. Churchill knew it would be hard to hold onto, but the military convinced him to hold it with. Canada didn"t investigate anything and just sent them in. Lacked training and seen as unfit for combat . Nearing centennial, british colony expected to do great. Had a population of 2 million, including many chinese refugees. Island with a little bit of mainland, which was defended through the mountains. British knew this wouldn"t work but they never told the canadians. British expected 5,000 japanese but there were 50,000 rip. Had good weapons, an immense amount of training, and were ideologically driven. Air force was surprisingly prepared and attacked quickly. British defenses were especially weak, so the japanese walked easily into hong king and went towards the british.
