1. PART 1 Canadians of Japanese Ancestry
Unit 3 WW2
PART 1 Canadians of Japanese Ancestry

2. 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

3. 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

4. Canadians of Japanese Ancestry - General
Japanese Canadians
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

5. Treatment of Canadian’s of Japanese Ancestry
Striped of their rights / property / possessions
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

6. Japanese Internment
Feb 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

7. 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

8. Unit 3 World War 2
Part 2 The A-bomb

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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
Leukemia

12. Hiroshima & Nagasaki after the Bomb

13. 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