History 2127F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: William Lyon Mackenzie King, Alaska Highway, Hirohito
30 Mar 2018
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Political instability: great depression, communists, fascists, social democrats, worker demands, colonialism ends. Leaders: hitler (germany, mussolini (italy, stalin (russia/soviet union, hirohito (japan, churchill (great britain, roosevelt (u. s. a. , william lyon mackenzie king (canada) Appeasement: ww1, great depression, communism, treaty ignored, arms build up. Blitzkrieg: coordinated, rapid, surprise offence, poland (1939), norway, denmark, netherlands, belgium, luxembourg, Isolation: lack military equipment, lend-lease, hyde agreement, alaskan highway, fear communism, anti-semitism. Minorities: french canadians, women, aboriginals, black canadians, asian canadians. Italy: global depression sparked fascism, 1922 mussolini first dictatorship, 1935 invaded ethiopia, canada isolationist. Spain: 1936 franco takes spain vs. communists, canada isolationists. Ussr: stalin=great terror, he kills over 1 million people from 1935-1939. Policy: pearl harbor 1941 u. s. enters war; kamikaze pilots, hong kong japanese invade -> canadians poorly prepared 300 died, 1675 captured, 297 die in pow camps. Was it a disaster or practice: dieppe raid 1942 germans alerted, 2000 canadians captured-> first major.
