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The Clouded Dawn

August 1945 - 1946. Japan surrenders. World War II is over, but the scars are deep. Canadian prisoners are released from Japanese war camps. In Canada, as elsewhere, the monumental task of rehabilitation begins. In Ottawa the Gouzenko case shocks the nation. The trials at Nürenberg begin. The United Nations is formed. Canada, now a much stronger, independent nation, enters the Cold War.
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August 1945 - 1946. Japan surrenders. World War II is over, but the scars are deep. Canadian prisoners are released from Japanese war camps. In Canada, as elsewhere, the monumental task of rehabilitation begins. In Ottawa the Gouzenko case shocks the nation. The trials at Nürenberg begin. The United Nations is formed. Canada, now a much stronger, independent nation, enters the Cold War.

History - Canada - 1920-1945 Foreign Countries History - Canada - 1946-Present War, Conflict and Peace All subjects
  • producer
    Stanley Clish
    Donald Brittain
  • executive producer
    Peter Jones
  • writer
    Donald Brittain
  • editing
    John Kemeny
  • sound editing
    Kenneth Heeley-Ray
    Sidney Pearson
  • re-recording
    George Croll
    Ted Haley
  • narrator
    Budd Knapp
  • music
    Robert Fleming
    Eldon Rathburn
    Maurice Blackburn

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Ages 14 to 17
School subjects
Ethics and Religious Culture - Ethical Values History - Canada 1946-1991 History - World War II Technology Education - Society and Technology
Students will examine the nuclear question: Was the atomic bomb the best way to end the war with Japan? Students will debate the alternatives to, and the consequences of, using a nuclear bomb. Students will look at the modern debate over this controversy and how it still divides historians. This film can also be used as part of a study on the Nuremberg Trials, and the birth of the concept of war crimes.

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