Causes Treaty of Versailles

Hitler’s Aggression

Failure of League of Nations

Isolationism Countries stay out of foreign

affairs.

Why? • Afraid of debt• casualties during WWI• Great Depression • fear of Communism.

Anit-Semitism Nazi Party believed

in a “Master Race”

1933: start of isolating Jewish people from German society.

November 9, 1938: Kristallnacht

Anti-Semitism

Germany Invades Poland

Canada Prepares for War September 10th 1939

Able to get volunteers very quickly

Canadian government wanted to contribute from the Home Front

BCATP British

Commonwealth Air Training Plan in December 1939.

Program to train pilots and aircrew.

Propaganda