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Do You Know Canadian WWII History?
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By: Annette
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World War Two lasted from 1939 to 1945, killing between 50 and 80 million people, and was the greatest conflict in world history (a title that it thankfully still retains). The conflict was fundamentally between two groups.
First were the Axis Powers of fascist Italy, Imperial Japan, and Nazi Germany. These three countries shared a rabidly racist and bigoted ideology that said that their innate superiority gave them the right to colonize, conquer, and exterminate pretty much everyone else. A few Eastern European countries subsequently joined them in that particular endeavor. They started off by arming themselves very dramatically and murdering those of their own people they decided were bad news and then launched wars of aggression.
Ranged against the Axis powers were the Allies. These nations started their alliance as just a trio, and soon expanded to include others. Their primary goal in the war was to defend their homelands and those of their allies against Axis aggression. It was also eventually clear to them that it would be necessary to demolish the Axis regimes entirely, for three main reasons.
One was that containment was clearly not a viable option, second was that the Axis powers could not be allowed to continue to perpetrate genocide on innocent people, and third was that the Allies were all countries where the Enlightenment was born, and thus democracy was written into their DNA. Their heroism not only saved millions of lives and the whole planet from domination, but it also secured two generations of democracy. Let's see how well you remember them.
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