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Alliances

Triple Entente

France, England, Russia/Soviet Union

Triple Alliance

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Due to the Triple Entente, winning they made the treaty of Versailles which mainly targeted Germany's power. This treaty was one of the causes for why Hitler did what he did and was one of the sparks that ignited WW2

Laws

Laws for Aboriginals people

The Aboriginal Peoples used to not be able to have lawyers as they didn't want them to be able to contest treaties that they didn't know they were signing. They could have lawyers in 1927. The Indian act is another law where if a women of aboriginal descent married a man of non-aboriginal origins she would loose her status as an Aboriginal.

The aboriginal children were taken away from their homes and forced into residential schools. These schools were backed by the Canadian Parliament, and were enforced by churches and nuns. They were made to make the aboriginal children forget their culture entirely. The last residential school was shut down in 1996

German Antisemitism Laws

Antisemitism was a big part of WW2 as it was targeting the Jewish people. One of the laws was that the Jewish people were forced into ghettos, and had to leave the country or they were forced into concentration work/death camps .

Leaders/Political parties from other country

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The Archduke was the heir to the throne in Austria-Hungary. His assassination sparked WW1 when he was at a Parade in Sarajevo (Austria-Hungary). At this parade he was killed by Gavrilo Prinicip of the Black Hand. His death led to an ultimatum being given to Serbia where the Black Hand originated. This Ultimatum ended up splitting 6 countries into 2 sides which is the Triple Entente, and Triple Alliance

Nazi Party

What Hitler used to take over Germany. Adolf Hitler Controlled and spoke as Leader of the Nazi Party during WW2. At the end of WW2. The triple alliance learned from the Treaty of Versailles, so they only punished the Nazi Party.

League Of Nations

Helped cause WW2 due to isolationism.

Non- Permanent Members - Belgium - Brazil - Greece - Spain

Permanent Members - Great Britain - France - Italy - Japan

Dictators

Benito Mussolini

Was the one who inspired Hitler to start becoming a dictator, and also showed that the League of Nations wouldn't do anything when he raided Ethiopia

Adolf Hitler

Was what sparked WW2. He used the peoples feelings after Germany got hit with the treaty of Versailles and made them all think that the Jewish people were to blame. He then took over some of the surrounding areas after he realized from Mussolini that the League of Nations wouldn't do anything. He caused millions of Jewish people to die. WW2 ended 1945.

Joseph Stalin

Governed the soviet union from 1923 till his death in 1953. Stalin formalized Marxism-Leninism. He made his own Ideology called Stalinism. He wanted to turn the Soviet Union into a superpower, by government control of economy, and a collectivism agriculture. Anyone who disagreed or didn't comply were shot or exiled. He ruled with a strict voice, and encouraged spying among the citizens. He even made his own Labor camps called Gulags where citizens were forced to work for hours.

Canadian Leaders

Pierre Trudeau

1919 - 2000

Ran in office from 1968-1979 and 1980 - 1984

Stricter Gun control

LGBTQ+ Rights

Womens Rights

Sr. Robert Laird Borden

!854 - 1937

Insisted on separate Canadian membership in League of Nations

Helped Britain in WW1

Ran In office from 1911 - 1920