EDEE 280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Charlotte Whitton, Arthur Meighen, Atomic Age
23 Jun 2018
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-Canadians produced their way out of the great depression
-Hoped the great war would be the end to all wars
-First world war Canadians allied with Great Britain, France and the United Sates
-Hitler’s racist program included destroying other nations and cultures (reign over
peoples he deemed inferior)
-Hitler signed a non aggression pact with the soviet union under Joseph Stalin
-World war 1: difficult war to avoid
-Bombing of pearl harbour in Hawaii jarred the United States out of its own isolationism and into
the war
-War measures act by the Canadian gov to make sure it had all the powers it needed to fight an
all out war
-Maurice Duplessis: made Canada’s involvement in the war the major issue in the
campaign
-Majority of Quebecers elected the provincial liberal party, led by Adelard Goudbout, to
office. Liberals won a resounding victory
-Hitler conducted a blitzkrieg (lighting war)
-Canada was Great Britain’s largest surviving ally who were forced to consider a much larger
contribution to the war effort
-The gov moved swiftly to enact the National resources mobilization act which provided
for the conscription of soldier for home defence and state control of economic resources
-King re-evaluated his position on conscription. Canadians voted yes or no on whether the gov
should be released from its pledge not to impose conscription for overseas countries
-Threat of conscription caused the bloc popular canadien a new nationalist political party in
Quebec, to return the anti-conscriptionist union union nationale to power
-King did his best to avoid conscription and fired pro-conscription defence minister J.C Ralston
-Zombies: an African-carribean reference to men who had no souls
-Conscription strengthened the credibility of Quebec nationalists and added to feelings of
betrayal among French Canadians
*-Canadian participation in war (royal Canadian air force, royal Canadian navy)
-French Canadian enlistment in the 2nd world war was higher than in the 1st world war. Some
were seeking adventure and others wanted employment
-Wartime economy led to a labour shortage and recruitment became more difficult
-Society union lost 20 million people and 6 million jews were slaughtered by the nazis
*-Only men participated in combat but some women served in the Canadian armed
forces. Reluctant to accept them but in the face of manpower shortages, they created a
separate female auxiliary in the various branches of the armed service
*-1941: the army created the Canadian Women’s army crops and the air force organized
the RCAF Women’s division
*-1942: Women’s royal Canadian naval service. Many women were in the Canadian
nursing service as well.
-Women gradually took on less traditional roles
*-Margaret Eaton achieved the highest rank of any women in the services when she was
made acting colonel and director general of the CWAC (1944). Women’s morality was
questions (women had a high incidence of illegitimate children and venereal disease)
-Men were allowed and encouraged to vent their sexual energies
*-Women did not revive the same pay benefits as men even when they performed the
same job. The national council of women took up their case and pay gap was narrowed
but not eliminated
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-When the war ended, all 3 women’s services were abandoned
-Hitler’s Luftwaffe conducted a destructive blitz on London and other British cities. Launched a
devastating u-boat campaign against allied shipping in the Atlantic
-Hitler turned his army on the soviet union ignoring his non aggression pact with Stalin
-*President Franklin Roosevelt announced that persons of Japanese ancestry were to be
removed from the Pacific coast of the United states. Their homes, businesses, and
personal property, initially placed under the “protection” of the federal gov were
auctioned to the highest bidders
-Mackenzie KIng’s gov suspended the civil liberties of the entire Japanese Canadian population
-Men who expressed support for Japanese victory were legally interned in a prisoner of war
camp
-Women, children, the old, and the sick were unofficially interned in abandoned mining towns in
the interior of British Columbia
-Ottawa made deportation attractive by offering money and free page to those who were
destitute or too elderly or infirm to begin life again
-1980’s Canadian gov officially acknowledge its mistreatment of Japanese Canadians
during the war and provided compensation to surviving members of the community in
recognition of their suffering
-Canadian army overseas expanded into a full field army, the 1st Canadian army, with two
corps, three infantry and two armoured (tank) divisions, and a wide array of additional
formations and support units
-Canadian presence in Italy expanded, playing a key role in breaking through the strongly
defended approaches to Rome
-100 worships of the RCN formed naval forces that learned mine, kept enemy warships and
submarines at bay, landed troops, and provided artillery supper to the soldiers struggling ashore
-Begin port was essential to maintaining the supplies of the allied armies in northwest Europe,
but was opened at the cost of more than 6000 killed or wounded Canadians
-Royal Canadian navy played a significant role in the war effort. Helped protect British
waters against German U-boats. Plan was to increase this force gradually, for the
protection of Canadian waters
-Programs to build corvettes and other anti-submarine vessels in Canada expanded. Recent
recruits, ill trained for their difficult mission, were pressed into service
-RCN was obliged to help the americans who were woefully short of anti-submarine vessels
-The routes of 3 of the 4 Canadian mid-atlantic escort groups were changed so they could use
British base facilities to get improved equipment and advanced training
-Rear Admiral L.W Murray became commander in chief of the Canadian northwest atlantic
theatre. He was the only Canadian to common an allied theatre of war
*-Canada agreed to play host to the British Commonwealth air training plan (BCATP)
whereby Canadian and other allied polite and air crews would be trained for the war effort.
Canada was the ideal location for the program. It had able space and was close to vital
American aircraft industries, upon which the success of the war in the air depended
-Canada’s participation in overseas war often sparked debate. Controversy over the allied
bomber offensive against Germany.
-Canadian war museum in Ottawa (2005). Veterans felt that the heroism and sacrifice of the
young men involved were somehow being called into question. Truth does not emerge from the
suppression of facts
-The interpretation of the allied bombing offensive against Germany raises the larger
question of who had the authority to interpret the past and what Role the public in
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Document Summary
Canadians produced their way out of the great depression. Hoped the great war would be the end to all wars. First world war canadians allied with great britain, france and the united sates. Hitler"s racist program included destroying other nations and cultures (reign over peoples he deemed inferior) Hitler signed a non aggression pact with the soviet union under joseph stalin. Bombing of pearl harbour in hawaii jarred the united states out of its own isolationism and into the war. War measures act by the canadian gov to make sure it had all the powers it needed to ght an all out war. Maurice duplessis: made canada"s involvement in the war the major issue in the campaign. Majority of quebecers elected the provincial liberal party, led by adelard goudbout, to of ce. Canada was great britain"s largest surviving ally who were forced to consider a much larger contribution to the war effort.
