Unit 3 WW2

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Unit 3 WW2

• PART 1 Canadians of Japanese Ancestry

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In the Beginning

• Emperor Hirohito Part of the Axis Powers,
  along with Hitler and Mussolini
• Time of Japanese imperialism (expansion of their
  empire in the Pacific)
• Dec 1941 Attack Pearl Harbor and the colony of
  Hong Kong Being defended by Canadian soldiers
• Now at war with Japan - Pacific

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A Defensive Canada

• Canada feels vulnerable. A Japanese attack on
  Canadian soil is possible and feared
• Pre-existing racism towards Japanese Canadians is
  aggravated by a fear of an attack

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Canadians of Japanese Ancestry - General

• Japanese Canadians
• look different
• May speak a different language
• have different customs
• Live close to the coastline
• Work mostly in the fisheries
• Although many have been Canadian for generations
  they are fears, not trusted and suspected of
  possibly being spies
• Perceived as a threat

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Treatment of Canadians of Japanese Ancestry

• Striped of their rights / property / possessions
• Loose the right to vote
• Forbidden employment
• Forbidden to attend school
• Carry id cards
• Property and possessions (homes, cars, fishing
  boats) confiscated
• Property later sold at reduced rates to pay for
  their (Involuntary) internment

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Japanese Internment

• Feb 1942. Mackenzie King announced that all
  Japanese Canadians would be forcibly removed from
  within a hundredmile swath of the Pacific coast
• To safeguard the defences of the Pacific Coast
  of Canada.
• They were uprooted from their homes, stripped of
  their property, and dispersed across Canada

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Japanese Canadians

• 22,000 people were taken from their homes and
  scattered throughout BC. The Canadian government
  set up 8 internment camps in interior BC
• Dreadful conditions cold, lack of fresh water,
  poor nutrition, disease
• After the war people were given a choice to be
  scattered over eastern Canada or deported to
  Japan (10,000)
• Slideshow
• Peoples History Clip Disk 12

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Unit 3 World War 2

• Part 2 The A-bomb

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The Bomb

• America had a top-secret plan - Manhattan
  Project To design and deliver an atom bomb
  before anybody else does
• Included participation from England and Canada
• Oppenhiemer Lead Physicist

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The End of the WarThe A-Bomb

• August 6, 1945, a lone American bomber flew high
  over the Japanese city of Hiroshima
• Dropped a single bomb named Little Boy
• 1st atomic bomb unleashed on the world

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The A-bomb continued

• 90,000166,000 killed at Hiroshima
• 60,00080,000 killed at Nagasaki
• Thousands would die later from radiation
  poisoning
• Leukemia

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Hiroshima Nagasaki after the Bomb
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V- J Day

• Japan surrendered August 14 1945
• The War was OVER!!!!
• The new world order
• Two new world super powers
• Atomic age
• A territorial war based on ideas (communism vs.
  free democracy / capitalism)
• The Cold War begins