Download • Bomber Command • Battle of the Atlantic

Canada’s Involvement in the
Second World War – 5.3
Propaganda
&
Japanese Internment
Propaganda
• The National Film Board (NFB) turned out
hundreds of documentaries and short films
which were shown all over Canada
• Posters and radio messages were everywhere as
well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4497GEGOO
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Propaganda
• The next slide shows some examples of Allied
propaganda posters from the Second World
War.
Analyzing Propaganda Posters
• Analyze the next four propaganda posters from
WW2 and complete worksheet 5.3 Canadian
History – Analyzing Propaganda Posters
• Take 5 – 7 minutes to analyze each poster &
complete questions
• Ensure your name is written on it and submit
when completed. Due TODAY!!!!
Japanese Canadians
• After Japan attacked Pearl harbor in 1941,
Canadians feared an attack on Canada’s
West Coast, either by naval shelling or an
actual invasion.
• Anti- Japanese feeling grew quickly.
Japanese Canadians
• Some people feared that Japanese Canadians
would help the invaders, although there was no
evidence to cast doubt upon the loyalty of
Japanese Canadians
• The fear of espionage (spying) within the
country led to the arrest, with no legal basis, of
38 Japanese Canadians
Japanese Internment
• In February 1942, the government announced that
people of Japanese ancestry living near to the coast of
British Columbia would be moved inland.
• Approximately 16,000 of the 21,000 evacuated
Japanese Canadians were Canadian
Japanese Internment
• Japanese Canadian businesses & homes were
seized with little or no restitution & people were
sent to internment camps.
• Japanese Canadians continued to be denied the
right to vote until 1949.
Japanese Internment
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljpb21QDPq
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Other Minority Groups
• Until 1942 the government ignored employers’
restrictions on hiring Blacks.
• After protests from Black university students & a
campaign by the press & the Canadian Jewish
Congress, this practiced ended.
• Prejudice was also evident with regard to
refugees.
Other Minority Groups
• Canada made it difficult for Jewish refugees to
enter Canada before the war.
• As news of concentration & death camps began
to reach Canada, there was no change in
government policy or in the attitudes of the
immigrant branch.
• Many of the immigrants who managed to
immigrate to Canada were placed in internment
camps
Textbook Questions
• Begin working on “Treatment of Minority
Groups in Canada” (use textbook pages 234-237)
• Write your name on it & submit when
completed. Due next class....Monday, Period 5.