History Assignment

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Why the Bolsheviks Succceeded

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Bilingual education programms

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Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany 1935

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Wales Literature

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French English Relations

Recruitment encouraged Canadians of British descent to identify with their past

French Canadians could not relate; felt no connection with France

Sir Wilfred Laurier

Former PM (before war started) was a Liberal

Supported Borden's decision to send troops to war but did not agree with conscription

French-Canadians became violent in protests against conscription

CONSCRIPTION

French-Canadian propoganda reflect Canada’s “pressing demand for manpower during the First World War.”

Anglophones were in support of conscription

Francophones were against conscription

heavily divided Anglophones and Francophones

French Canadians felt loyalty to no one

believed France showed no interest in the welfare of French Canadian

did not feel tied to Britain nor France

Sam Hughes

didn't trust francophones and Catholics

did not allow a French Canadian battalion in the First Contingent to go overseas

Quebec was "overlooked" when he organized the battalions at the beginning of the war

Henri Bourassa (journalist and politician)

wanted Canada to be an Anglo-French country

inspired nationalism

part of the Quebec Assembly

English Canadians felt very loyal to Britain

English Canadians lost respect for French Canadians

English Canadians felt that French Canadians were betraying Canada

English Canadians were disappointed that French Canadians chose not to enlist into the war

Assimilation

French Canadians felt as though the English Canadians were trying to strip their culture i.e. the bill passed in 1912 which limited French-speaking schools