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Stock Market Crashed
On Tuesday October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed in the United States and everyone started to panic and sell their stocks. As more and more stocks were sold, the more the value of them decreased. The stock market crash quickly spread to Canada and other countries. Prosperity turned into poverty. -
Radios Come of Age
Listening to the radio was like a diversion. They listened to comedies, dramas, sports, serials, and variety shows. People liked listening to radios and their stories because the stories gave them hope and during the Great Depression hope is what people needed most. -
Dust storms
Severe drought swept through the prairies and the crops failed. Topsoil taken away by huge, hot, dry windstorms. There were also plagues of grasshoppers that infested the crops. It was a terrible time for many farmers. -
William Lyon Mackenzie King
King returned to power in 1935 and was hoping to avoid war. He was the one who decided to go to war with Germany. He wanted to maintain national unity. Many people, even in his own arty, thought that King should retire. King is Canada’s longest-serving prime minister and some people think he was the best. -
Canada Declares War
In the First World War, Canada was made to go to war by Britain. But by now Canada had its foreign policy in control so we could decide to go to war, or to stay out of it. Canada was not ready for war, military-wise, the depression caused many people to lose their jobs, and there were only 8000 personnel in the army, navy, and air force. The Germans bombed a ship that had a young Canadian girl on it and King knew that they had to go to war. -
The Battle of Britian
Hitler planned to bomb Britian into submission.Germans bombarded Britains airfield, radar installations, factories, ports. In September they started to bomb London. 80 Canadian pilots joined the Royal Air Force.
The Battle of Britian ended on the 31st of October, 1940 -
Holocaust Continued.
People in the labour camps would work for 16 hours a day with only a bowl of broth and a piece of bread. The Nazis experimented on some of them, like they were guinea pigs.
The Allied forces liberated the camps and put a stop to the genocide. -
Holocaust
The Nazis started the final solution, which made every Jewish person, whether it was a man, woman or child, go to concentration camps. But the camps were also for the “undesirables”, like homosexuals, gypsies, communists and people with a mental or physical disability. The soldiers would divide all of the people in two groups, one group would work in the labour camps and the other would die immediately via gas chambers. -
D-Day
The Allies were ready to invade Europe. They wanted to keep the plan a secret so they made fake tanks and plane to throw off German intelligence. The Canadians, British and American troops all landed and docked all in different places. B the end of the first day, the Canadian troops were the only ones to have completed their goal. And by the end of the first week, 300 000+ Allied soldiers landed in Europe.
