Transcript Internment and bomb

Unit 3 WW2
PART 1 Canadians of Japanese Ancestry
In the Beginning
 Emperor Hirohito – Part of
the ‘Axis Powers’, along with
Hitler and Mussolini
 Time of Japanese
imperialism (expansion of
their empire in the Pacific)
 Dec 1941 Attack Pearl
Harbor and the colony of
Hong Kong – Being
defended by Canadian
soldiers
 Now at war with Japan -
Pacific
A Defensive Canada
 Canada feels
vulnerable. A Japanese
attack on Canadian soil
is possible and feared
 Pre-existing racism
towards Japanese
Canadians is
aggravated by a fear of
an attack
Canadians of Japanese Ancestry General
 Japanese Canadians
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look different
May speak a different
language
have different customs
Live close to the coastline
Work mostly in the fisheries
 Although many have been
Canadian for generations they are
fears, not trusted and suspected
of possibly being spies
 Perceived as a threat
Treatment of Canadian’s of Japanese
Ancestry
 Striped of their rights /
property / possessions
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Loose the right to vote
Forbidden employment
Forbidden to attend
school
Carry id cards
Property and
possessions (homes,
cars, fishing boats)
confiscated
 Property later sold at
reduced rates to pay for their
(Involuntary) internment
Japanese Internment
 Feb 1942. Mackenzie King
announced that all Japanese
Canadians would be forcibly
removed from within a
hundred–mile swath of the
Pacific coast
 To “safeguard the defences
of the Pacific Coast of
Canada.”
 They were uprooted from
their homes, stripped of their
property, and dispersed
across Canada
Japanese
Canadians
 22,000 people were taken from
their homes and scattered
throughout BC. The Canadian
government set up 8 internment
camps in interior BC
 Dreadful conditions – cold, lack
of fresh water, poor nutrition,
disease…
 After the war people were given
a choice: to be scattered over
eastern Canada or deported to
Japan (10,000)
 Slideshow
 Peoples History Clip Disk 12
Unit 3 World War 2
Part 2 The A-bomb
The Bomb
 America had a top-secret
plan: - Manhattan Project –
To design and deliver an
atom bomb before anybody
else does
 Included participation from
England and Canada
 Oppenhiemer – Lead
Physicist
The End of the War
The A-Bomb
 August 6, 1945, a lone
American bomber flew
high over the Japanese
city of Hiroshima
 Dropped a single bomb
named “Little Boy”
 1st atomic bomb
unleashed on the world
The A-bomb continued
 90,000–166,000 killed
at Hiroshima
 60,000–80,000 killed at
Nagasaki
 Thousands would die
later from radiation
poisoning
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Leukemia
Hiroshima & Nagasaki after the Bomb
V- J Day
 Japan surrendered August 14 – 1945
 The War was OVER!!!!
 The new world order
 Two new world super – powers
 Atomic age
 A territorial war based on ideas (communism vs. free
democracy / capitalism)
 The Cold War begins