Groups involved in WWII: Their roles and how they were impacted

Abstract

WWII was marked by increasing tensions between groups within Canada and between Canada and other countries. This set of 8 lessons/activities will take a closer look at these groups and how they effected change and were affected by change. The driving question of these 8 lessons/activities is to answer: What role did different individuals and groups play in WWII? How were these people impacted by the war? Although other curriculum expectation have been included in some of the lessons the overarching curriculum expectation for all 8 lessons/activities is: C2. Communities, Conflict, and Cooperation: describe some significant interactions between different communities in Canada, and between Canada and the international community, from 1929 to 1945, and explain what changes, if any, resulted from them.