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- assurance mackenzie king gave canadians during debate on Canada's involvement in the war
- no conscription-liberal party would lose support in Quebec
- Joseph stalin
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee; encouraged attack at poland
- blitzkrieg
- Blitzkrieg was a powerful and highly effective war tactic • The attacks were swift and thorough, and left the defending armies confused and disoriented • It took Germany just hours to conquer Denmark, and two months to subdue Norway • On May 10, Germany began its invasion of the Netherlands • Moving quickly, Germany advanced through Belgium, and finally into France
- C.D Howe
- Minister of Munitions and Supply. Howe had extraordinary powers to gear up the economy to meet wartime demands
- total war
- willing to do whatever it takes to defeat the enemy
- Lend-lease
- america would lend war supplies. Roosevelt provided Churchill with lend-lease
- if private sectors could not do what cd howe wanted,
- he made crown corporations to do the job
- lester pearson
- PM of Canada. Pearson's minority government introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada, and the current Canadian flag. Pearson's minority government introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada, and the current Canadian flag.
- In the early months of the war, King hoped Canada's contribution to the war
- would remain at home
- internment of Japanese Canadians
- The Japanese Canadian internment was the internment of more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians during the Second World War by the Government of Canada.
- WPTB
- Wartime Price and Trade board control prices, profits, wages
- The Liberal position to join the war
- was supported by the opposition Conservative Party; only the CCF argued against going to war
- pearl harbour
- us now involved in war
- Axis
- alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan during WW2
- conscription plebiscite
- vote to not support immediate conscription
- British Commonwealth Air training plan
- training plan, british instructors train pilots + flight personnel in Canada. Canada was ideal place to host because of it's distance from enemy aircraft. mackenzie supported because he thought less men would be sent over to war