HIS311Y1 Lecture Notes - Atlantic Charter, Dunkirk Evacuation, Royal Air Force
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Canada"s role of appeasement: the war created great challenges for king because he had to mange a war effort and the home front, there was the same question about conscription. King"s wartime priorities: king was not a very good wartime leader, but he had a very shrewd sense of timing and a great sense of the national mood, his priorities: preservation of national unity, military victory, meditating between. United states of america and britain: he saw himself as the linchpin in the north atlantic triangle -- king felt he could serve as a mediator between american president and the british prime minster. 1939-1945: it was a concept that king felt t into the canadian identity, but it was not really needed in the war, national unity was everything to king -- if the country fell apart, everything was lost. Limited liability, to june 1940: the period between the invasion poland and the battle of france is known as the.