1. Canada’s decision this world war was different than the first one because in the first one we were automatically at war as soon as Britain declared war. This time Canada is an autonomous country and made the decision by itself. Although we still felt connected to Britain it was parliaments decision and not Britain.
2.The BCATP is what king hoped to be Canada’s only contribution to the war. He wanted to avoid conscription so he wanted to send supplies and food. It is the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. This was to train pilots to go to the war. C.D. Howe’s total war economy is when Howe was given control to use whatever necessary to “gear up the economy”. He did this by telling factories what to produce, how to produce it.
3.Canada’s attitude going into the war is much less confident than the first war. They don’t believe they have enough troops to defend Canada. This was shown in some political cartoons. In political cartoons in world war one showed that Canada was very confident about the war. In world war two they are more hoping they can scare Hitler off. They aren’t as confident.