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Someone uprooted from war with no home because of war or disaster

After WWII, they lived in "displaced persons camps" in Europe

Often called DPs but it became an insulting term so they replaced it with the term "New Canadians" in Canada

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- Technology advanced quickly during world war 1.
- Both the allies and axis powers tried finding a technological edge to produce victory
- They made a bigger and better bomb aircraft that could fly further.
- The technology affected every aspect of warfare.
- Some soldiers still rode horses into battle.
- Technological advances that had a lasting effect on society after world war 1.
- During the war, 9000 radar sets worth hundreds of millions of dollars were manufactured in Canada.
- The expertise Canadian scientists gained during the war enabled them to become world leaders.

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Rachel: During WW2, many women had stepped into non-traditional jobs. They had served in the armed forces, at home 🏠, and factories to produce materials needed for the war effort.

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It really began in August 1941.

The League of Nations ( legends) was created to prevent similar wars.

Other people had the right to choose the right government.

The oceans were off limits for any country

Larger countries should protect smaller countries

Other countries were planning to create a world peace organization

They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard

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— In the year of World War II, many Canadians coped with the loss of family members and friends.
—The end of World War II marked the beginning of a time of growing prosperity ($$$) and a booming economy (not like WWI)

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Rachel: they began to demand independence and equality and equal treatment

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- In Jan 1942, 24 countries including Canada, accepted the Atlantic Charter.
- The U.S., the Soviet Union, China and Britain worked on plans for an effective world peacekeeping organization and these plans became the base of the charter of the United Nations.
- An important difference between the League and the U.N. Is that the U.S. was a founder of the U.N. while they weren't part of the League.
- The charter starts with “We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind... do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations”
- Canada has always been a strong supporter of the UN

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- After WWII ended, Canada had a lot of jobs to fill and Europe had a lot of people that wanted to immigrate for work. But prejudice continued, which prevented change in immigration laws for some time
- After the war, about 21 million Europeans became refugees as a result of world war II, including many holocaust cost survivors. Europe began pushing other countries to take them in as refugees, so Canada responded by changing some of their immigration policies. They let in over 165,000 DPs, more than all the other overseas countries combined.
-  Canada discriminated against Asian people and Jewish people
- Immigration was strictly regulated (there were rules

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Mariam; even though women were improving that they could do the same jobs as men, altitudes were slow to change

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Mariam: even though women who did the same as jobs as men found that their work was not valued as highlyThey were often paid less than men who did the same job

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Many Quebec women took another step toward achieving this goal in 1940, when they finally won the right to vote in provincial elections 

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Many Quebec women took another step toward achieving this goal in 1940, when they finally won the right to vote in provincial elections 

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Shania: Quebec was the last province to grant women this right

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Shania: he battle to win the vote in Quebec was led by Therese Casgrain after ww2, he joined other women across Canada 🇨🇦 to bring even more changes

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Divorce rate rose steadily through out the war

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Divorce rate rose steadily through out the war

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Aaliyah: By 1947, the divorce rate was more than three times as high as it had been in the in 1939

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Many Canadians believed immigrants should become "just like other Canadians", and forget their own culture and traditions
Over time, they realized this was wrong and changed Canada's policy to officially adapt "multiculturalism", to celebrate their diversity and encourage immigrants to embrace, remember, and teach about their roots

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Canadians took pride in their accomplishments during WWII, and wanted to be recognised for them as CANADIAN citizens, not British

Canadians also grew concerned about the growing influence of USA. We wanted to have our own distinct identity separate from Britain and USA, but still friendly neighbours of both countries.

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Canadians fought under this flag during WWII, which included the British union jack. PM Mackenzie King wanted to make this the official Canadian flag, but other Canadians opposed this and believed they should have their own distinctive flag to represent our own distinctive identity.

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The Red Ensign carried by the 5th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Western Cavalry) at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 survives to this day. The battle was the first instance in which all four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought together as a cohesive formation during the First World War, and as such it is often viewed as a pivotal event in the emergence of Canadian national identity.

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A detection system that bounces electronic signals off of distant objects to find and track them faster

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Nuclear science introduced the most deadly weapon the world had ever seen -- The Atomic Bomb

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She became a journalist and broadcaster, and the first Canadian woman to lead a political party. She also helped fight for women's voting rights in Quebec.

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First women to earn a degree in electrical engineering,and the first woman in North America to earn a master's degree in aeronautical engineering. She later worked as a designer of the Maple Leaf II Trainer (first aircraft designed completely by a woman). She was in charge of building Hawker Hurricane fighters during WWII and tested fighter planes herself.

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The first major challenge for the UN was to write out the rights of all people across the world. A Canadian named John Peters Humphrey, a law professor, wrote the first draft. It is not a law for every country to follow, rather is a document to be used as a guide to create laws.