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Canada At War
Britain entered the first world war by declaring war on Germany.The british declaration brought Canada into the war because of Canada's legal status. -
The stock market
Stock brokers encouraged people to buy stock with loaned money causing share prices to fall.Panic started and people were starting to not have enough money to pay off their loans and Share prices began to fall even more.On Tuesday october 29,1929 all stock markets collapsed , between $10-$15 billion dollars were lost during this time. -
Adolf Hitler became Chancellor
Adolf Hitler bribed people with propaganda and made them believe that he was a hero by showing the Germans how dangerous the Jews were. -
On-To-Ottawa Trek
This is where unemployed men protested about the way they were fired and the cost they made each day.Each Employed man received twenty cents PER DAY before walking out on strike in April 1935. -
Miracle and dunkirk
This was an important day because over 340 000 prisoners escaped from Dunkirk. Hitler decides to retreat for a while and this got British got to escape by sea by using all sorts of different boats. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
This battle was between the Japanese and the Americans at Hawaii on December 7th, 1941. They were attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, causing all eight of the US Navy battleships to get damaged, 4 being sunk. -
Battle of Hong Kong
Canada, Britain and Indian forces had helped Hong Kong but were lacking troops, while Allies had 14 000, Japan had 52 troops. This was an important day because this was when Hong Kong had surrendered to the Empire of Japan and 10 000 troops were captured and were sent to camps all around Japan. -
D Day
D Day was the largest seaborne invasion, this battle was between the Germans and Allies at Normandy South, The Allies wanted to trick the Germans so they made a plan to send them to Pas de Calais. This was an important event because this got Germans to fight 3 different fronts: east, south and west. -
Liberation of Holland
The allied forces closed in on Germany from all sides. -
Holocaust
Jewish people in Europe were sent to death camps to be slaughtered.
