2191 Lesson 2.2 Diplomacy during World War II and Legacies of Warfare

welcome to lesson two diplomacy during World War II and the legacies of warfare that continued so here's a picture of Adolf Hitler addressing the audience as he was said to have a fantastic way of speaking even my grandmother used to talk about how he spoke very well she was entranced by him this could be

almost my mother except for she didn't meet Hitler there was this adultation of this leader this German leader without knowing anything about him in Canada there was concern about a civil war Mackenzie King wrote in his Diaries which are called the king diaries about his worry that there'd be civil war over conscription

meanwhile in the whole issue of who would become the next prime minister after the war came to the fore there was a member of parliament called Louis San Laurent he became the Prime Minister after World War II for quite a long time from 1948 to 1956 let me keep talking about World War II

however the German forces were finally defeated on May 7 1945. this ended the war in Europe but it did not end the war against Japan Japan was not defeated until Hiroshima and Nagasaki when they uh agreed that they were defeated and they gave up so the it's important to remember there was quite a few months there and that

explains why the Americans chose to bomb Hiroshima Nagasaki they wanted to end the war and this senseless loss of Americans and Europeans in war here uh once again is the onset of the atomic era it's called the onset of cold the Cold War in 1945 with the end of World War II until 1989 or maybe 1991

but most people agree that this was called the atomic era because of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Hiroshima and Nagasaki here Louis Sam Laura became the Prime Minister and ever since then people have said that maybe the person who's the Minister of Foreign Affairs now called Global Affairs should become the Prime