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Winston churchill label

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PM of Britain during the war

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Winston churchill info

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May 1940, Neville Chamberlain resigns as PM of the UK → King George VI asks Winston Churchill to become PM
Churchill has been warning the world about Hitler for many years → does not trust him.
Believes only outcome victory against the Axis will save democracy.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt label + info

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PM of the united states that helped the Great Depression

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Joseph Stalin label

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DIctator of the Soviet Union

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Joseph Stalin info

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The KGB (a government agency) was created to arrest anyone who was a threat to Stalin’s government.
Totalitarianism

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Stalin’s Soviet Union

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  • He implemented five-year plans to industrialize and control the economy
  • Focused economic production on industry and military, ignored needs of people
  • Censorship
  • Secret Police
  • Great Purge
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Stalin’s Holodomor

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  • Stalin’s human-made famine and genocide in Ukraine (1932-33)
  • Deliberately deprived Ukrainians of food → part of broader campaign to crush Ukrainian resistance
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Tommy Douglas label

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Leader of the first socialist party
premier of saskatchewan

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Tommy Douglas info

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Introduced free healthcare and other social programs
gave the mouseland speech

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Programs brought in by Douglas

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Offers free healthcare for cancer patients, pensions

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Who opposed Tommy Douglas

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Large corporations
Newspapers

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What happened on June 15, 1944

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first provincial socialist government

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Benito Mussolini label

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Dictator of Italy

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Benito Mussolini info

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To gain power in Italy he promised to address economic threats of communism and eliminate the nation’s problems.
Italy prepared to invade Ethiopia
Got schools to change their curriculum→ Brainwash youth.

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Emperor Hirohito label

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Emperor of Japan

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Emperor Hirohito info

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Symbolic Figurehead of the Japanese state, considered divine by religious belief
had influence over government policies and decisions, especially war and foreign relations
Totalitarianism

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CD Howe label

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Minister of Munitions and Supply

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CD Howe info

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Given authority to do whatever it took to gear up the economy to meet war demands
Convinced manufacturers to make goods

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Harry Truman label

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Head of the Senate War Investigation Committee (had power after Roosevelt’s death)

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Harry Truman info

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Aided the waste and corruption
Made crucial decisions in WW2
Ordered the two bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Elsie MacGill label

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First woman in the world to earn an aeronautical engineering degree

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Elsie MacGill info

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Hawker Hurricane
Organized production to get to Britain
Fired bc she was in a relationship with the manager – immediately found jobs in Toronto and got married
The only women that graduated from MIT at that time

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Tommy Prince info (no label needed)

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most decorated Indigenous War Hero and Indigenous Advocate

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William Lyon Mckenzie King label

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PM of Canada through Depression and WW2

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William Lyon Mckenzie King info

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did not do anything until 1935 and onward
after 1935, decreases tariffs + import rates
created the trade treaty

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Trade treaty importance to farmers

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allowed them to sell their goods to America and build the economy

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Adolf Hitler label

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leader of the nazi party and dictator of Germany

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Hideki Tojo label

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War Minister and then PM of Japan

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Hideki Tojo info

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Even though Hirohito was officially in charge of the nation, he had little authority as Tojo took command of the military and became a dictator

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Carine Wilson label

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first Canadian woman to become a Senator

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Carine Wilson info

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advocated for Jewish refugees to come to canada
tried to admit as many jewish as she can. (from the MS St.Louis)

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Why did Carine WIlson’s plans fail for the most part?

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PM King admired Hitler and was anti-semitic himself

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