The Eve of war.

Chapter 9
ON THE EVE OF WAR

Spotlight Canada
Pages 209-230.
INTRODUCTION
Just 2 decades after WWI the world drowns into another massive war.
The peace of WWI sewed the seeds of WWII.
The Treaty of Versailles humiliated the people of Germany.
The turned to the dictator and fascist, Adolf Hitler
Hitler launched a campaign to expand Germany’s over all of Europe.
By September 1939 Britain & France had declared war on Germany.
A week later Canada had joined the war.
More than 1 million Canadians served in the war and 55 thousand gave their lives.
With WWII Canada transformed, its economy developed a stronger industrial base
Canadian-American political and economic ties became closer.
Japanese, Italian and those who were convicted of sympathizing the enemy were put in internment camps.
The terror in Nazi camps, in which 6 million Jew, mil...