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Hitler Invades Poland
On September 1st 1939 Hitler invades Poland. Two days later both France and Germany declare war on Germany. Canada waits another week before following suit. Hilter had shown his Blitzkrieg tactic. -
Japanese Internment
The Canadian government had forced nearly 21,000 Japanese Canadians — more than half of whom were Canadian citizens by birth — out of their homes and farms, mostly on the British Columbia coast, and into internment camps in the interior.