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WORLD WAR II

WORLD WAR II . A Canadian Perspective. TIMELINE OF WORLD WAR II. http://encarta.msn.com/media_1481601301_761559200_-1_1/World_War_II.html Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA) above Winston Churchill (Britain) below. RISE OF DICTATORSHIPS.

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WORLD WAR II

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  1. WORLD WAR II A Canadian Perspective

  2. TIMELINE OF WORLD WAR II • http://encarta.msn.com/media_1481601301_761559200_-1_1/World_War_II.html • Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA) above • Winston Churchill (Britain) below

  3. RISE OF DICTATORSHIPS • Josef Stalin leads the Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – USSR) (Russia today) • 1929 – 1953 • totalitarian state by Communist Party • Estimates of those arrested and executed from 1936 to 1938 in the Great Purge range between 1.5 million and 7 million

  4. Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) • Italian Fascist dictator 1922 – 1943 • Executed by Italian partisans April 1945 • Mussolini on the cover of Life Magazine, 1939 • Created ‘fascism’ • “Believe, obey, fight”

  5. Francisco Franco • Leader of the Nationalist forces overthrew Spain’s elected government • el Caudillo (the leader) ruled 1939 until his death in 1975. • http://encarta.msn.com/media_461549681_761572941_-1_1/Spanish_Civil_War.html

  6. ADOLF HITLER • National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) • Came to power democratically • Suspended civil liberties, violently silenced opposition • Opposition, mentally/physically handicapped, Jews, eastern Europeans, homosexuals • http://encarta.msn.com/media_461556192_761556540_-1_1/Rise_of_Adolf_Hitler.html

  7. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King • Over 21 years in office • Longest running Canadian Prime Minister • Met Hitler and thought he was ‘pleasant,’ ‘affectionate,’ and ‘loves his fellow man’ • "conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription."

  8. Japanese-Canadian Internment • 22,000 BC residents given 24 hours to pack • no evidence they were threat • The federal government confiscated and sold the property and belongings of the incarcerated Japanese at public auction

  9. Japanese-Canadian Internment • After the war, King offered Japanese-Canadians the option of “repatriation" to a war-ravaged Japan, even though many had never been there and did not speak the language • not allowed back to coastal areas until his government fell several years later

  10. THE HOLOCAUST • 6 million Jews rounded up, and systematically imprisoned, starved, tortured, gassed, or died in other ways due to Nazi policies • Some confined to ghettoes at first, work camps, concentration camps

  11. THE HOLOCAUST • ‘Final Solution’ gassing experiments in Auschwitz (carbon monoxide, Zyklon-B) • Above, children in concentration camp • Right, naked women, with children, waiting to be executed in mass grave • Worst (sadly not last) genocide in history

  12. THE HOLOCAUST • Left, prayer shawls from gassed Jews at Auschwitz • Right, human hair in warehouse, numbered for shipment

  13. Martin Niemöller • In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; • And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; • And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; • And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

  14. ALL FOR WHAT? • Over 72 million people died because of World War II • 47 million of those were civilians • Allies lost 61 million, Axis 11 million

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