WWI VS WWII KEY - Compare and Contrast the Canadian Homefront between WWI
and WWII
WWI
WWII
Women’ -Worked as nurses or drivers
-Rosie the riveter
s Role
-Gaining right to vote (1918-1920)
-Single and married women worked
-Munitions factories
-Munitions factories
-Running farms, fishing
-Led to social assistance for day
care
Wartime -Production boosts economy in a
-Production boosts economy out of
Econom recession
Depression
y
-Victory Bonds
-Shortage of goods within Canada
-Income Tax
led to inflation
-Forced to borrow money from USA -Victory Bonds
-Inflation due to scarcity of products -Price and wage freeze
-Goods sent overseas
-Rationing
-Goods sent overseas
Conscrip -No conscription at first
-No conscription at first
tion
-Military Service Act makes
-Plebiscite held
enlistment compulsory
-Quebec opposed
-Conscientious objectors didn’t need -NRMA allowed for conscription as
to enlist
defence of the nation
-No public consulted on conscription -Sending conscripts would anger the
-Francophones opposed
public
-Farmers opposed
-Very few conscripts were actually
sent
Racism
-Austrian, Hungarian, German
-Japanese Internment
and
internment
-Refusal of Jewish immigrants
intoleran -ID for “enemy aliens”
-Anti-Asian
ce
-Immigrants fought in war
Contribu -Own seat in the Paris Peace
-Participation in a war as an
tions to
conference
independent country
National -Member of League of Nations
-Canada seen as a munitions for
Identity
democracy
Legacy/ -Unemployment – protest
-Canada is industrialized
effects
-Liberal government (King)
-Beginnings of social security
from the -Canada’s independence in the
-Fixes Depression
War
Commonwealth
-CCF rises to speak for the people
(also p
-Still no constitution of its own
53-56)
?Other
-Attitude to the beginning of war
-Air and submarines are vital
-Trench warfare
-Munitions for democracy
-Unions gain more rights because of
labour demand
-Unions allowed and employers
must recognize them
-Unemployment insurance in 1940
-Family Allowance in 1945