1. 1935: Nuremberg Laws
2. Goals: destruction of culture and assimilation into the white society
3. 2) Segregation
3.1. slave labor "annihilation by work"
3.1.1. starved
3.1.2. transported like cattle in freight cars
3.1.3. camps built on railroads for efficient transportation
3.2. Survival based on the physical strength and trade skills
3.2.1. men, women and children were seperated from each other so that each group would be focused on the job the Nazis gave them at hand
4. before WWII 9 million Jewish people lived in Europe and by the end of WWII 6 million Jewish people were killed, one million being Jewish children
4.1. Who was Jewish
4.1.1. If your parent or parents were Jewish you were Jewish
4.1.2. If only ONE grandparent had been a Jew you could be classified as German
5. intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
6. preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
7. a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
8. prejudice or discrimination based on sex.
9. Attitudes
10. treating a person less favorably because of a disorder that affects their mood, thinking, or behavior.
11. valuing or treating a person or group differently because of what they do or do not believe
12. "lesser people"
12.1. from other countries
12.1.1. immigrants, refugees, and people that were born somewhere other than Canada and did not look the same as the majority of Canada.
12.2. mentally ill
12.2.1. During the time almost up until present day the physically and mentally disabled,socially disordered, PTSD, homosexual, and sexual and gender disordered people were treated horrendously. These people were beat, stripped of their rights and treating inhumanly.
12.3. weaker gender
12.3.1. Women were considered lesser because they were not the dominant gender. A woman was basically their husbands property and those unfortunate to be married to a man that was abusive couldn't do anything about it.
12.4. religious diversion
12.4.1. if you were a different religion than the main culture was you would be treated as lesser and possible be forced into the dominant culture's religion.
12.5. anyone that wasn't white
12.5.1. was looked upon as lesser and would be treated poorly they would not be given any rights.
12.6. stereotyping based on what you've heard and not actual experience
12.6.1. predjudism against the German people was very common. They were considered the enemy but yet that's what the Germans thought of you in WW1 too.
13. Before WWI
14. a movement that seeks to change the social and political views of a discriminated group
14.1. Women and Aboriginal people look for equality and human rights to be seen as equal and deserving of rights to be who they are in the social and political eye.
14.2. labor unions began to start on work sites that would ensure the ability for a stable well paying job for men to provide for their families.
15. any policy of a country that allows or does not allow transit of people across it's borders, or immigrants, who intend to stay and work in the country.
16. English, French, farmers from USA
16.1. propaganda promoted settlement in western Canada, there was a lot of fertile land and would be a good place to raise a family and make a good life for yourself
17. to have a nation formed of the discriminated races
18. to maintain the "White- Christian" culture
19. blacks, gypsies, jews, italians, greeks and asians, feeble-minded and people with tuberculosis and other diseases
19.1. propaganda- discouraging black migration, Canada's Black population went from 50 thousand to 17 thousand
19.2. head tax - Chinese immigrants would have to pay anywhere between $50- $500 to get in to Canada ($500 was two years pay)
19.3. stop of flow- Continuous Passage Act- required Indians to come to Canada only by sailing from India
20. unable to compete for jobs equally, receive fair services, or vote in elections.
21. " In this time there was no discrimination laws, and basic human rights did not exist."
22. After WWI/ 1920s
23. broad power of the Canadian government to maintain security and order during war and rid any insurrection
23.1. Ukrainian-Canadians jailed under this act forcing them into slave labor
23.1.1. men detained for 18 months
24. enacted to prohibit admission based on culture, modes of living, methods of holding property and probability of becoming assimilated
24.1. June 1919
24.1.1. entry of Doukhobors, Mennonites, and Hutterites prohibited because of "peculiar habits, modes of living and methods of holding property"
24.2. 1923
24.2.1. head tax enacted for all Chinese immigrants under the Canadian Chinese Exclusion Act
25. Women want to vote and become "Persons" under the law, since women were not considered people. The initial goal of this was to become equal to men.
26. "Famous Five"- The five crucial women that pushed the right to vote and become people. In 1921 these women ran for office in a federal election and in October of 1929 the British council declares that Women should be Person's under the law.
27. simply to make the whole Indian culture dissapear
28. were compulsory and children as young as three must attend, these children were told that their society was worthless and that they had been rescued. They were not allowed to speak their own language and they were abused mentally, emotionally, physically, and sexually.
29. WWII/Holocaust
30. German fuhrer (leader) Adolph Hitler, planned a genocide of undesirables in order to create a "perfect Germany" and "perfect Europe"
31. "Women bring all voters into the world; let them vote."
32. a way of systematically exterminating a nationality or group
33. mainly Jews but also Roma, communists, gay men, Africans, the disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses and political prisoners.
34. 1) Stripping of rights
34.1. Jewish people forced to live in designated areas "ghettos" to be isolated from the rest of society
34.1.1. 356 ghettos Nazis established in Poland, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Romania & Hungary
34.1.1.1. ghettos were filthy,poorly sanitized and extremely overcrowded
34.1.1.2. disease rampant and food was in such short supply that many slowly starved to death
35. 3) Concentration
35.1. Wansee Conference (Berlin 1942) established the "complete solution of the Jewish question" and called for the complete and mass annihalation and extermination of the Jewish people."
35.2. camps established to concentrate the Jewish people from the rest of society
35.2.1. unsanitary, disease ridden and lice infested barracks
35.2.2. inhumane medical experiments
36. 4) Extermination
36.1. By 1945, Nazis have exterminated almost 11 million "undesirable" people and 6 million of those people were Jews
36.1.1. prisoners in camps worked to death under brutal conditions
36.1.2. too young, too old and too weak
36.1.2.1. killed in gas chambers, shot or left to die of starvation or disease
36.2. Nazis began to destroy crematoriums and camps as the Allied troops close in
36.3. January 27, 1945, Soviet army entered Auschwitz (largest camp) and liberated more than seven thousand remaining prisoners who were mostly ill and dying
37. Allied powers- Great Britain, France, Canada, China, United States (from 1941), USSR (from 1941)
38. Axis powers- Germany, Austria, Japan, Italy, USSR (until 1941)
39. Isolation
40. Cold war and Modern Canada (2016)
41. the annihaliation of Jews and other groups of people of Europe under the Nazi regime during WWII
42. Britain and France nervous and did not want to cause another war so they appeased to the Treaty of Versailles
43. propaganda and media
43.1. August 1939- German agents pretend to be Polish officers staged an assault at the German border to make it look as if Poland were attacking Germany
43.1.1. used false story to order Germany to invade
43.2. September 3, 1939, 2 days later, Britain and France declare war on Germany and one week later Canada does
44. he used the anger of the Germans on the topic of the Treaty of Versailles to his advantage
44.1. we will not pay reperations from the previous war
44.2. We want our military for protection, started to re-arm military and troops
44.3. sent 30, 000 troops to a de-militarized zone which was not allowed according to this treaty
45. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization): the agressive actions of Stalin (leader of Soviet Union) accelerated the US effort to use military means to contain Soviet ambihitions
46. USA, Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Holland, Italy, and Denmark form a mutual defense pactin 1949.
47. Pledged countries would treat an attack against one as an attack against all.
48. organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe it was established on May 14, 1955 in Warsaw Poland
49. established in response to NATO treaty Albania (left in 1961 as a result of Sino-Soviet split), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland , Romania, USSR, East Germany (1956)
50. Canada's Lester B. Pearson went to the UN and proposed that the UN Emergency Peacekeeping Force to be sent to the Suez Canl to seperate and mediate conversation between the rival armies
50.1. Crisis resolved
50.2. Canada slowly becoming a peacekeeper, which we never were before
51. Peacekeeping Missions
51.1. 1950-1953: Korean War
51.2. 1956: Suez Canal Crisis
51.2.1. Major part to start Peacekeeping
51.3. 1958: Lebanon
51.4. 1960-1964: Congo
51.5. 1974- PRESENT: Syria
51.5.1. More than 12,000 Canadians served
51.6. 1978-PRESENT: Afghanistan
51.7. 1988-1991; Persian Gulf (Gulf war)
51.7.1. four thousand Canadian Force personnel served
51.8. 1990-1991: Haiti
51.9. 1991-1995: El Salvador
51.9.1. contingent sent to observer mission to monitor ceasefire following El Salvador's twelve year civil war
51.10. 1992-1995: Somalia
51.10.1. mission gains attention and becomes national scandal referred to as Somalia Affair after Canadian soilders are convicted of torture, assault and murder of Somali civilians
51.11. 1993-1994; Rwanda
51.11.1. met significant hurdles as UN troops witnessed slaughter of nearly 800,000 Rwandans
52. 60s- 70s significant changes
52.1. '62- removal of much racial discrimination with new immigration regulations, assisted loan program extended to Carribean
52.2. '66- White paper promoting a balance between economic interest and family relationship
52.3. '67- Points system
52.4. '69- Canada finally signs Refugee Convention and Protocol
52.5. '71- Multiculturalism policy announced, many immigrants and refugees come from new source countries
52.6. '74- Creation of ISAP Program
52.7. '78- New Immigration Act
53. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
53.1. Bill of Rights
53.1.1. John Diefenbaker became Prime Minister IN 1958 and wanted to create new law to address issues of human rights in Canada and guarantee rights of individuals.
53.1.1.1. to life, liberty and personal security
53.1.1.2. to equality before the law
53.1.1.3. freedom of religion, speech, assembly, association and the press
53.1.1.4. to legal consel and a fair hearing
53.1.2. However he could not enshrine this into the Canadian Constitution because Britain still had power over constitutional affairs.
53.1.2.1. was the first step to Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
53.1.3. legislated by Parliment and acted as a guideline for federal goverment and allowed victories against discrimination
53.1.3.1. such as the "Rv Drybones" case which ruled that Indian Act provisions related to liquor laws were discriminatory.
53.2. Canada was slow to vote in favor of this because it was still discriminating against various groups
53.2.1. Jehovah's Witness' recieved hostile treatment
53.2.2. communists being targeted due to Cold War fears and discovery of USSR spy operation
53.2.3. Japanese Canadians continued to be denied the right to vote in 1948
53.3. Indian issues
53.3.1. Indian Act 1951
53.3.1.1. Aboriginals were not allowed alchol, could not subdivide their reserve lands or launch claims without permission of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, they could not vote in federal elections without giving up their Indian Status but if they gave up their status they wouldn't be able to function well within the reserves or in mainstream society
53.3.1.1.1. UN ruled this act violated Human Rights
53.3.1.1.2. Canada passed a Bill C-31 to amend Indian Act in 1985
53.3.2. Indian Act and Women
53.3.2.1. If an aboriginal woman married a non- Aboriginal man she and her children would lose their Indian Status, but if an aboriginal man marries a non- Aboriginal woman the same thing does not apply
53.3.2.1.1. 1966- Mary Two Axe Earley challenged this when she founded Equal Rights for Indian Women
53.3.2.1.2. Canada passed a Bill C-31 to amend Indian Act in 1985
53.3.3. White Paper Response
53.3.3.1. do away with Indian Act, dismantle the Department of Indian Affairs, shift responsibility for Aboriginal issues to provincial governments and eventually eliminate treaty rights
53.3.3.1.1. Aboriginals responded with outrage and this was withdrawn in 1970
53.3.4. Redpower
53.3.4.1. Native alliance for red powers issued in 1969:
53.3.4.1.1. self determination for reserves and Aboriginal communities, end to taxation, creation of an education system end to discrimination by police and prisons, honour treaties and compensation for loss of land end of "divide and rule" tactics by government.
53.4. Women's Movement
53.4.1. Royal Commission on Status of Women
53.4.1.1. all women should get to choose where or whether they work, society should help with raising children by providing daycare, women should be entitled to maternity leave and federal government should help women overcome descrimination
53.4.2. Voice of Women
53.4.2.1. promote disarmament and peace and enabled many women to articulate corncerns about the Cold War
53.4.2.1.1. frustrated about: equal pay for equal work, paid Maternity leave, laws protecting from sexual harrassment, control of their own reproductive rights
53.4.3. Women in the workforce
53.4.3.1. In 1951- 22.3% of the workforce was female and in 1961 women employed full time earned 59% of what a man would earn doing the same job.
53.4.3.2. 1955- restrictions in federal public service on employment advancement of married women were removed
53.4.3.3. 1970's- increased number of women opting to participate in the workforce and women in automobile companies for example, recieved the same pay as a man would for the same job
54. Charter of Rights and Freedoms summary
54.1. a) Guarentee of Rights and Freedoms
54.1.1. live free, justifiable in rights and freedoms
54.2. b) Fundamental Freedoms
54.2.1. freedom of religion
54.2.2. thought (right to have opinions/beliefs)
54.2.3. expression ( to state personal opinions openly)
54.2.4. association and assembly ( gather with and meet peacefully)
54.3. c) Democratic Rights
54.3.1. vote federally and provincially
54.3.2. run for elected office
54.4. d) Mobility Rights
54.4.1. enter, remain in or leave country
54.4.2. work wherever they would like in Canada
54.5. e) Legal Rights
54.5.1. John Dieffenbaker- Bill of rights " to life, liberty, security"
54.6. f) Equality Rights
54.6.1. to not be discriminated against because of appearance or physical, mental, spirtual and social beliefs or ability
54.6.2. all people are equal
54.7. g) Official Languages
54.7.1. the right to speak French or English in our bilingual country
54.8. h) Minority Language and Education
54.8.1. "Children are to be educated in either French or English where large enough numbers of students exist to justify a dual system."
54.9. i) Enforcement
54.9.1. the right to have this enforced and if any are denied the right to go to a social justice system
54.10. j) General Provisions
54.10.1. First Nations People have the right to retain previously established rights
54.10.2. ehance multicultural heritage