HISTORY 3040 CANADA AND THE WORLD Dr. Curtis Cole Trent University in Oshawa World War II Part Two February 1, 2010

World War II: Part Two

Robert Borden Prime Minister,

World War II: Part Two

“No Canadian conscription for overseas duty.” Mackenzie King, March 1939 and again, September, 1939

World War II: Part Two  June, 1940: Conservatives offer Union Government  Mackenzie King refused R.B. Hanson Conservative Leader

World War II: Part Two  June, 1940: Conservatives offer Union Government  Mackenzie King refused  National Resources Mobilization Act  June 18, 1940  National registration of manpower  Conscription for training and domestic defense only

World War II: Part Two “No Canadian conscription for overseas duty.” Mackenzie King, March 1939 and again, September, 1939 and again, June 1940

World War II: Part Two  National Resources Mobilization Act  June 18, 1940  National registration of manpower  Conscription for training and domestic defense only  S. 2:  Government may conscript men or property  But not for military service outside of Canada

World War II: Part Two For full treatment of the conscription issue in W.W.I and W.W.II: see J.L. Granatstein and J.M. Hitsman, Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (Toronto, 1985)

World War II: Part Two  National Resources Mobilization Act  June 18, 1940  National registration of manpower  Conscription for training and domestic defense only  S. 2:  Government may conscript men or property  But not for military service outside of Canada  N.R.M.A generally accepted  even in Quebec

World War II: Part Two  National Resources Mobilization Act  June 18, 1940  National registration of manpower  Conscription for training and domestic defense only  S. 2:  Government may conscript men or property  But not for military service outside of Canada  N.R.M.A generally accepted  even in Quebec  Except by Montreal Mayor Camillien Houde

World War II: Part Two Conscripted soldiers were known as “Zombies”

World War II: Part Two The Evening Standard (London), June 18, 1940

World War II: Part Two

 U.S. Neutrality Act: Amended, Sept. 1939

World War II: Part Two  U.S. Neutrality Act: Amended, Sept  Ogdensburg Agreement, August 1940  Lend-Lease Act (U.S.), March 1941  Hyde Park Declaration, April 1941 Mackenzie King and Roosevelt

World War II: Part Two Operation Barbarossa, June 1941

World War II: Part Two Pearl Harbor, December

World War II: Part Two President Roosevelt Requesting Declaration of War, December

World War II: Part Two Mackenzie King  “Operation Barbarossa”  (Germany attacks the U.S.S.R., June 1941)  Japan attacks the U.S.,  (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941)  Canada declares war on Japan  (Dec. 8, 1941)

World War II: Part Two Churchill, Mackenzie King and Roosevelt

“No Canadian conscription for overseas duty.” Mackenzie King, March 1939 and again, September, 1939 and again, June 1940 World War II: Part Two

 National Resources Mobilization Act  S. 3: Conscripts not to be ordered overseas

World War II: Part Two  National Resources Mobilization Act  S. 3: Conscripts not to be ordered overseas  Internment of Japanese-Canadians, winter 1942

World War II: Part Two  National Resources Mobilization Act  S. 3: Conscripts not to be ordered overseas  Internment of Japanese-Canadians, winter 1942

World War II: Part Two  Death of Ernest Lapointe, November 1941

World War II: Part Two  Death of Ernest Lapointe, November 1941  Louis St. Laurent

World War II: Part Two  Conservative Leaders:  R.J. Manion  R.B. Hanson  Arthur Meighen

World War II: Part Two  Plebiscite - April 27, 1942  “can we amend S.3 of the N.R.M.A.?” Mackenzie King, April 24, 1942 (audio requires internet connection)

World War II: Part Two  York South By-Election, Feb. 9, 1942  CCF candidate: Joe Noseworthy  Noseworthy won Arthur Meighen Joe Noseworthy

World War II: Part Two  Conscription Plebiscite, April 27, 1942  Results:  English Canada - 80% “YES”  French Canada - 78% “NON” WML King votes in The Conscription Plebiscite

World War II: Part Two  National Resources Mobilization Act  S. 3: Conscripts not to be ordered overseas  S. 3 repealed, July 1942  govt. now legally allowed to send conscripts overseas  But did not use the power

World War II: Part Two D-Day, June

World War II: Part Two  November, 1944: 16,000 NRMA men ordered overseas  12,000 actually served overseas  69 killed  232 wounded  13 taken prisoner

World War II: Part Two  Political Ramifications:  Federal General Election, June 11, 1945 Liberals:125 Progressive Conservative: 67 C.C.F.: 28 Social Credit: 13 Bloc Populaire: 10 Other: 2 TOTAL245 National Quebec 

World War II: Part Two  Political Ramifications:

World War II: Part Two  Political Ramifications:  John Bracken  new Progressive Conservative leader, Dec  Shift to the left

World War II: Part Two  Political Ramifications:  John Bracken  new Progressive Conservative leader, Dec  Shift to the left  T.C. Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan

World War II: Part Two …a national plan of social insurance to be a charter of social security... A magnificent declaration... of liberal policy, than which nothing could be better. W.L.M. King, 1943 Speech From the Throne

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