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Canada at War, Part 2: Blitzkrieg

1962 27 min
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April - November 1940. With devastating speed Germany takes Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Italy declares war. The British withdraw from Dunkirk. Mackenzie King feels the Canadian pulse on conscription. England is strafed by the Luftwaffe, and Britons accept Churchill's challenge of 'blood, sweat and tears.'

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Canada at War, Part 2: Blitzkrieg

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April - November 1940. With devastating speed Germany takes Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Italy declares war. The British withdraw from Dunkirk. Mackenzie King feels the Canadian pulse on conscription. England is strafed by the Luftwaffe, and Britons accept Churchill's challenge of 'blood, sweat and tears.'
  • producer
    Stanley Clish
    Donald Brittain
  • executive producer
    Peter Jones
  • writer
    Donald Brittain
  • editing
    David Green
  • sound editing
    Bernard Bordeleau
  • re-recording
    George Croll
    Ted Haley
  • narrator
    Budd Knapp
  • music
    Robert Fleming
    Eldon Rathburn
    Maurice Blackburn

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Ages 14 to 17
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Students will examine the war on the “home front,” and especially the tensions between provincial and federal levels of government (anti-war sentiment in Quebec, the rise of Canada’s federal civil service). Students will also discuss the social, political and cultural ramifications as Canada drifts from the British into the American sphere of influence. Students will study the history, use and importance of propaganda in WWII, and will design and create their own propaganda posters.
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