Homefront Flashcards
Economy
1939 - 500000 people unemployed, 1 mil on relief. Labour shortage
Many government-owned businesses were created as a result and made artillery (bullets, bombs, shells) and military vehicles.
1940 - Unemployment Insurance Act
1944 - Family allowance “Baby Bonus”
Conscription
National Resources Mobilization Act where all adult men had to enlist but only for duty in 1940 (NRMA). King introduced conscription again, which all but Quebec were fine with it. 16000 men were conscripted into Europe in 1944.
Women’s Role
Nurses, factory workers, welders, mechanics, radio operators, in military
Treatment of Jews and Holocaust
M.S. St. Louis - Ship carrying 900 Jewish passengers that was denied entry by Cuba, U.S., and Canada, forcing them back into Europe.
Holocaust:
1933-1938: Nuremberg Laws where Jewish people were banned from schools, fired from jobs, their businesses were boycotted, forced to pay special tax and reparations, forced to wear a yellow Star of David armband
Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass where Jewish businesses were targeted and burnt down.
1939-1941: Concentration camps + Ghettos
1942-1945: Gas chambers (Zyklon B gas)
Japanese Canadians
War Measures Act allowed government power on who was loyal and who was not. Japanese Canadians were deemed unloyal under this act and their properties were sold as well as them being sent to interment camps as ‘enemy aliens’ or POWs.
