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