Download Canada's Historical Achievements and Challenges: A Country to Be Proud Of? and more Study notes Chemistry in PDF only on Docsity! To what degree is Canada a country to be —— proud of? The degree of is Canada a country to be proud of is a sizable degree. During the early 1900s, Canadians were under the loyalty to the British, being there if the British were in need of anything, Canada would help the British. This was a time where women's rights and racism was still at large and some people wanted others to be deported. When VWV1 broke out and Canada would come into play with the British, when soldiers were getting wounded or would die, the Canadian government started doing posters and they later made a conscription law so that more men could become soldiers and help the army overseas. Now although this wasn't something to be proud of, the whole war in which Germany lost and the Canadians won, was something to be proud of as there were other kinds of wins to be involved. One of these wins were that black soldiers of Canada survived and showed that they can be just as great soldiers as the white soldiers. Another win was that women back in Canada, their unfair rights were being recognized by more people, knowing this was a problem and that women could not get real jobs or vote. Later on, after WWV1, when 1929 came around, the Great Depression hit and caused farmers and businesses to collapse and go bankrupt. This caused a lot of products like rubber, whiskey and wood to go down in domestic exports. Many people were in severe trouble either because the stores they owned or worked at were going bankrupt as well as the farmers for as the crops they grew, nobody would buy them and that led to grasshoppers starting to eat away at them. Then, WWV2 arose and made things worse overall. Jewish refugees asked for access into Canada; some were denied and some were let in, but were treated unfairly. This was a time where the great depression was a second problem compared to WWV2, during all this, women’s rights and non white people didn't have rights. Even though women did get to vote during this, most non-whites did not get to vote as they were an outsider. Also during this time, Germans, Austrians and Hungarians were being told by Canadians that they needed to be deported out of the country. After WWV2 ended, not everything was getting better, even though NATO was founded. So because NATO was founded, the Soviets made their own allied group of countries (communists). In Canada, the US asked to use their land for defence in case of Soviet attacks. During this time, more tights between women and other races were becoming evident that something needed to be done about it and while all that was happening, the Korean War was happening. This was also a very horrible time because The October Crisis had begun, mailboxes and buildings were being bombed by the FLQ (a revolutionary group). This started a small war between the 2, ending with the deal to release Mr.Kross in return for the 6 hostages besides Pierre Laporte (he was found strangled and dead in the back trunk of a car). The deal was done and the small war was over. There were also the aboriginal problems with the government, with Indians being treated like minorities even though they are canadian. This also brought residential
