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World War II
1939-1945
By Now,
• By now you should probably all know that the Nazis hated
Jews.
• When we say Jews, we mean Jews, Romani’s, Gypsies,
Communists, Transgendered, the physically and mentally
disabled, and Blacks.
• So when we say Jews, we mean everyone in the list we just
said.
A Few Dictators
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A few dictators in this PowerPoint that will be mentioned are:
Adolf Hitler or Adolf Eichmann
Benito Mussolini
Yosuke Matsuoka
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler – Eichmann
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Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany.
He hated Jews.
He blamed Jews for every single problem he had.
He seems very powerful, but he was a very odd kid.
When he got his report card, it was SO bad, he didn’t show his
parents, so instead he used it as toilet paper.
• He was an aspiring artist, but the art school didn’t accept him.
• If he got accepted, history would have been way different.
Pictures
Benito Mussolini
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Mussolini was the dictator of Italy.
He was also know as Il Duce.
He was a very powerful speaker.
He wanted to start his new Roman Empire.
Pictures
Joseph Stalin
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Joseph Stalin was a Georgian raised in Russia.
He replaced the former leader, Lenin, after he died.
He was known as the “Red Czar.”
He gave fiery speeches and was very tough.
Pictures
A Little Bit before World War II
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Hardly any jobs could be found after WWI.
Germany had a lot of other problems.
Much of its land had to be given to neighbouring countries.
It army, navy, and air force also had to be cut down to a
smaller size.
• Germany was forced to accept total blame for the war and pay
all the costs.
Who blamed Who?
• Many Germans, including Hitler blamed the Treaty of
Versailles for the current state Germany was in.
• Hitler also blamed Jews and Communists for pretty much
everything.
A Ruthless Dictatorship!
• After 6 months the Nazis gained control of Germany, the
Nazis set up a RUTHLESS dictatorship.
• After this, the Jews were tortured!
• They had to wear Jude stars all around and one on their
house.
• They could not go anywhere in public.
• Jews worshiped in a place called a Synagogue.
• The Nazis burned those down too.
• That night was called the night of Broken Glass, also known as
Pogromnacht.
War is DECLARED!!
• The Nazi’s planned a war of conquest!*
• That war in September 3, 1939, when Hitler told his troops to
invade Poland*.
• Britain* and France declared war to stop Germany’s invasion.
• A week later, on September 10, 1939, Canada declared war to
also stop Germany.
• Canadians followed Britain into war because they thought the
Nazis had to be stopped.
However…
• This time, however, there were no celebrations or patriotic
marches.
• The agony of trenches and war was sill fresh in the vets minds.
• They also remembered the conscription crisis and how it
almost tore the country apart.
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In Ottawa, Prime minister Mackenzie King shared their fears.
He wanted to stay away from the mistakes of WWI.
King did not want to send Canada’s army into battle.
He promised Canadians that there would be no conscription.
Once again, the Canadian armed forces were not ready.
Again, the war would be different from what anyone expected
New weapons and new words.
• New weapons had been invented since the first world war.
• These included fast moving tanks and dive bombing airplanes.
• Germany used tactics that made good use of the new
weapons.
• This type of war was called a blitzkrieg which means lighting
war.
• Hitler’s army move very lightning fast from one victory then
the next.
• Poland fell in 1939.
• By 1940, Germany took over almost all of Western Europe
including France.
All alone.
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Suddenly, Great Britain was alone.
Canada was its most important ally.
Now the British needed everything from Canada.
They needed tanks, planes ships, food, and even soldiers.
World war two grew even bigger in 1941.
Hitler invaded the USSR IN June.
Japan invaded the United States in December bringing both
countries into the war.
Obsessed with power!!
• Hitler was so obsessed with power that he declared war on
the UNITED STATES!!!
• That was his biggest mistake ever.
• Germany and the axis was too weak to fight the USSR, The
British Commonwealth, Great Britain, and the United States.
• However, it took nearly four years for the allies to beat the
axis.
• Canada fought many dangerous battles in Hong Kong, Sicily,
Italy, and France.
• By the end of the war, 1.1 million Canadians served in
uniform.
• This was nearly twice as many who served in the first world
war.
Dieppe
• On August 19, 1942, Canadian troops raided the seaside town
of Dieppe in occupied France.
• The raid was meant to surprise the Germans and get
information that could be used for a future invasion.
• The raid was a disaster.
• The Canadians had to advance into carefully placed German
defences.
• Machine gun and artillery fire hit the hard.
• Nearly 3000 of 5000 Canadian soldiers were killed wounded,
or taken prisoner.
• Although the raid went very badly, the Allies learned an
important lesson.
• These lessons were used to save many lives on D-Day.
Bomber Command
• In the summer of 1940, Hitler ordered his air force, Luftwaffe,
to bomb Britain.
• Over the next seven months, British cities including London,
Liverpool, and Coventry, were bombed almost every day.
• Newspapers called the bombing Blitz.
• Canada started bombing Germany for the next two years in
something called Bomber Command.
• All in all, 10 000 Canadian soldiers were killed flying for
Bomber Command.
Canada and it’s war production
• Canada grew into industrial powerhouse during World War II.
• Tanks, planes, ships, artillery, machine guns, ammunition, and
many more rolled off the assembly lines by the thousands.
• Canadians built it all.
• Canada’s biggest aid to the Allied War production was the
simple truck.
• In WWI, armies still used horses to haul their supplies.
• Now Armies needed motor vehicles.
• The two companies Ford and General Motors teamed up to
make the Canadian Military Pattern truck.
• CMPs were a clever design and could be used in many ways.
• They were even used as anti- aircraft gun carriers.
Women’s labour
• Once again, Canadian businesses needed women to fill the
jobs left by men.
• This time, however, the need was even greater.
• In WWII, women took 10x as many then they did in WWI.
• In all, 600 000 women joined the work force.
• This is more than twice as many than before the war.
• Women also did volunteer work, such as knit, collected scrap
metal for recycling, and made clothes for overseas men.
• Women unfortunately, had to face prejudice.
• People did not think women fit in and they were
discriminated.
Victory Bond sales*
• The cost of war was not cheap.
• In 1929, the government spent over $126 000 000 on the
military alone.
• In 1943, it spent over $4 000 000 000, more than 30 times as
much.
• Where did the money come from?
• Some came from new taxes Canadians had to pay.
• Some from the sales of victory bonds.
• Canadians bought billions of dollars worth of victory bonds.
• That’s a lot more than World War I.
British Commonwealth Air
Training Plan
• The BCATP trained pilots and aircrews at bases in Canada.
• In Canada, pilot learned to fly without fear of an enemy
attack.
• Recruits came from all around the war.
• While most were from Canada, Britain, Australia, or New
Zealand, others had escaped from countries Hitler had
occupied, like Czechoslovakia, Poland, and France.
• Over 130 000 pilots and crew members were recruited.
BCATP Pictures
Rationing and Shortage
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Imagine having to go shopping but go to some empty store.
That was Canada during the war.
The stores were short on inventory and had to re-price.
When factories started to build appliances like the toaster,
refrigerator, the stove, and motor vehicles like the tank and the
Canadian Military Pattern truck they had to stop rationing the
necessities.
There were many gas shortages.
People stopped driving cars.
In 1942, the Canadian Government started to ration goods such as
tea, sugar, meat, and butter.
Families were given ration coupons.
If they use up the weekly coupon, they can’t buy anything until next
week.
Internment of JapaneseCanadians
• In December 1941, the Japanese bombed an American naval
base at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.
• The event brought Japan and the United States into war.
• The allies were caught by surprise.
• They had to face many losses on land and sea as the Japanese
moved across the Pacific.
• Canadians were scared a Japanese attack in British Columbia!
• Also, the did not trust any Japanese- Canadians who were
living in Canada.
• Canadians pressured the government to move the JapaneseCanadians.
• In February 1942, the government agreed.
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• More than 21 000 Japanese-Canadians were moved and
interned until the war was over.
• Their schools and businesses closed.
• Their personal belongings were taken from them.
• Some were sent to work camps while others were sent to old
mining camps in British Columbia for the rest of the war.
• After the war, some Japanese-Canadians were allowed to go
back home.
• Some settled in Canada while others went back to a war
ruined Japan.
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• Most Japanese-Canadians did nothing wrong.
• Just like the Ukrainian-Canadians did nothing wrong during
WWI.
• People thought the Japanese were like the Ukrainians,
undercover spies.
• By 1988, the Canadian government finally gave each Japanese
WWII survivor $21 000.
David Suzuki (1936-present)
• David Suzuki is a Canadian environmentalist known all around
the world.
• He was the 5th greatest Canadian in 2004.
• What many people did not know is that his family was
interned.
• His parents dry cleaning business was closed.
• His mother, sister, and him were sent to an internment camp,
while his dad was sent to a different work camp.
• After the war, his family moved to London, Ontario and he
studied science. He eventually earned a PhD.
*******Pictures of David Suzuki
The Conscription Crisis of
1944
• Conscription, which was very unpopular in Quebec, had nearly torn
the country apart in World War 1.
• In 1939, Prime Minister Mackenzie King wanted to make sure there
would not be another crisis like that.
• He told Canadians only volunteers would have to go, and there
would be no conscripts.
• If there were to be any conscripts, it would only be for home
defence meaning they would stay in Canada.
• Unfortunately, the Canadian Army lost a lot men in the battles that
came after D-Day.
• They were unable to find replacements, so, King was forced to break
his promise.
• He sent 16 000 conscripts.
• Just like World War 1, the war was over before they were all sent.
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• Fortunately, the conscription crisis in 1944 wasn’t as bad as
the crisis in 1917.
• Many French- Canadians were angry.
• However, many realized that King kept his promise the best he
could.
• In the 1945 elections, King and the Liberals won most of
Quebec’s seats.
A Child’s eye view of the War
• For Canadian children, the war was both an exciting time, and
a frightening time.
• Everywhere they looked, they saw men and women in
uniform, army trucks rolling across city streets, and military
aircraft flying the high through the sky.
• Everything seemed to move at a faster pace.
• War could also mean their father, or brother could be fighting
overseas.
• Sometimes, letters were sent saying that someone they knew
was missing or killed in action.
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Ordinary life went on, however.
Children in wartime still went to school.
They did homework, and still had chores.
They played sports and listened to the radio.
On Saturdays, boys and girls raced to the movies to se the latest
blockbusters, such as the science fiction adventure Flash Gordon
Conquers the Universe, or the mystery, The Maltese Falcon.
After, they would ride their bikes to the drugstore to buy soda and a
chocolate bar.
As the war went along, these things changed.
Teachers would play CBC on Friday mornings for war broadcasts, with
the names of faraway places like El-Alamein, Stalingrad, and Ortona.
When kids outgrew their bikes or rollerblades, they couldn’t by new
ones, because they needed metal for building tanks and planes.
Also, there were less chocolate bars and pop.
Wood toys became popular because wood was not needed as much.
El-Alamein
• This is a map of El-Alamein
Stalingrad
• Here is a map of Stalingrad.
Ortona
• Here is a map of Ortona.
Forgotten Heroes:
Women in the Armed Forces
• During the Second World war, the government made and important
decision that changed Canada’s armed forces forever.
• The government let women serve in Uniform.
• Women were still not allowed to fight yet.
• Serving in uniform meant that women would do work behind the
lines, such as cook, be clerks, messengers, mechanics, telephone
operators, and drivers.
• By doing this, women freed more men to serve at the front.
• More than 45 000 women signed up.
• 3 special branches were made for women. Air, sea, and land.
• It was called Canadian Women’s Army Corps. (CWAC)
• Women joined the army for an adventure, they believed it was their
duty, and some wanted a break from their daily lives.
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• After the war, the government decided that women no longer
needed to serve.
• After awhile, they were allowed to serve again.
• Today, women also serve combat roles.
Aboriginal Canadians and the
war.
• As they did in World War 1, Canada’s Aboriginal peoples
served bravely in World War II.
• Many Aboriginal veterans from WWI, such as Tom Longboat,
volunteered in 1939.
• Since they were too old for overseas service, Aboriginal
veterans were sent to units such as the Veteran’s home Guard.
• The Home Guard helped to protect Canada from attack.
• It also performed duties such as guarding prisoners of war
who had been sent to Canada.
• Charles Henry Byce and Oliver Milton were only two of the
thousands of Aboriginal Canadians who fought in World War
II.
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• Byce, a Nehiyaw soldier from Moose Factory, Ontario, took
Command of his company.
• He led its attack after all of its officers were killed or wounded
by German tanks.
• For this heroic act, he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct
Medal.
• Brigadier- General Martin, a Kanienkaneka fro the Six Nations
Grand River Reserve, was the Aboriginal Canadians served in
the armed forces in WWII.
Tommy Prince (1915-1977)
• One of the best know of all Canadian soldiers was Tommy
Prince.
• He was an Anishnabe soldier from Brokenhead First Nation in
Manitoba
• He fought in a group called the Devil’s Brigad.
• Members came from Canada and the US.
• In London, King George IV awarded Prince the Military Medal
for his bravery during a mission in Italy.
• He had cleverly disguised himself as a harmless farmer. He
then directed artillery against unsuspecting Germans.
• He also won and American Silver Star.
• He is one of only 59 Canadians who receive the award.
The Allies Sense Victory:
D-Day
• June 6, 1944, is know as D-Day.
• D-Day commemorates the Allies liberation of France.
• An Allied force of 8000 ships and 13 00 planes landed a huge
army on the coast of Normandy, a province of France.
• British, American, and Canadian forces stormed up the
beaches, overcoming strong German resistance.
• Canadians from the 3rd Infantry Division plunged farthest
inland of all the Allied forces that day.
• Over the coming weeks, they would fight a series of blood
battles against some of Hitler’s troops.
• The battle of Normandy ended in August with the Allies as the
Victors.
Victory!
• On May 8, 1945, Canadians poured into the streets to
celebrate.
• Hitler was dead, and Germany’s armies had been defeated.
The war in Europe was over, and the Allies had won.
• Ever since, May 8 has been remembered as V.E Day, (Victory in
Europe Day)
• In the Pacific, the war went on.
• Canadian troops were getting ready to help the United States
invade Japan.
• The news had arrived that the war was over.
• The US used two Atomic bombs to explode Hirsoshima and
Nagasaki. The two cities were destroyed,
• The secret bomb was made during the war in total secret so
no one would find out. It’s disguise name was A-Bomb.
****The Holocaust*****
• The Holocaust was a mass genocide that was meant to wipe
out all Jews.
• They were sent to live in Ghettos, and sent to death camps.
• The largest one was Auschwitz.
• Trains carried thousands of innocent people, to die.
• They were killed in mass shootings, gas chambers, starvation,
and disease.
• It is estimated that 1.5 million Jews died.
• Now in Germany, if you say the Holocaust never happened,
you will get arrested.
• People suffered and to deny this is very sad.
Genocide
• Genocide means killing people with the intent to wipe out a
race.
• In this case, it was the Jews.
Conclusion
• The Allies suffered many losses on the road to victory.
• Once again, the Canadians played a huge role in the Allied Victory.
• They fought everywhere! From Icy waters, to the Jungles of Burma,
make and the beaches of Normandy.
• On the home front, factories worked around the clock to make
weapons for war.
• Canadians gave up all they could to help achieve victory.
• For Canada, the price of Victory was quite high.
• Nearly 45 000 Canadians had died.
• The Second World War had such a big impact to Canada.
• New industries, such as aircraft manufacturing, were created.
• Women joined the armed forces.
• This war saved everyone from the depression.
• This war, it changed history.
Thank you so much!
• Thank you for listening and we really hope you learned a lot.
• We hope that you will contribute to help for war to never
happen again.
• This is the end of our presentation.