Canadian women in the world wars became indispensable because the world wars were total wars that required the maximum effort of the civilian population...

During both world wars, women were required to undertake new roles in their respective national war efforts. Women across the world experienced severe...

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The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually...

The book is the only contemporary novel about the war from the perspective of Canadian women. Canada portal Canadian pipers in World War I Canadian war...

Women in World War I were mobilized in unprecedented numbers on all sides. The vast majority of these women were drafted into the civilian work force...

During the world wars and interwar period, 1914–1947, Canada experienced economic gain, more freedom for women, and new technological advancements. There...

Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented...

the world wars to join their husbands. This term later became popular during World War II. It first started when in January 1919, the Canadian government...

The History of women in Canada is the study of the historical experiences of women living in Canada and the laws and legislation affecting Canadian women...

world wars, such as the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Seven Years' War, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Cold...

Colonial Wars of North America, 1512–1763: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 429. ISBN 978-1-317-48718-0. Canadian Geographic. Royal Canadian Geographical...

as the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force. The CAF also operates several other commands, including the Canadian Forces...

two wars became World War II in 1941. Other proposed starting dates for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British...

Representation by women has been a significant issue in Canadian politics since 1900. The first woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada was Louise...

The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women...

Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War." Contemporary Europeans also referred to it as "the war...

Canadian war memorials are buildings, monuments, and statues that commemorate the armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, the role of...

The Canadian Women's Army Corps was a non-combatant branch of the Canadian Army for women, established during the Second World War, with the purpose of...

Women in the Arab world have been subject to changing cultural and social norms over the centuries with a clear difference between Urban areas, Rural areas...

Mackenzie King and Canada's World Wars (2012) 472pp online, on the prime ministers in the world wars Douglas, W. A. B. The RCN in Transition, 1910–1985...

The List of theatres and campaigns of World War II subdivides military operations of World War II and contemporary wars by war, then by theater and then...

Women in the Vietnam War were active in a large variety of roles, making significant impacts on the War and with the War having significant impacts on...

During World War I (1914–1918), belligerents from both the Allied Powers and Central Powers violated international criminal law, committing numerous war crimes...

During World War I and World War II, Switzerland maintained armed neutrality, and was not invaded by its neighbors, in part because of its topography...

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the estimated global population...

American merchant ships in the North Atlantic. Wilson then asked Congress for "a war to end all wars" that would "make the world safe for democracy", and...

events over the period of World War II. Timeline of events preceding World War II Timeline of World War II (1939) Timeline of World War II (1940) Timeline...

League of Nations. Members of the United Nations agreed to outlaw wars of aggression in an attempt to avoid a third world war. The devastated great powers of...

FirstWorldWar.com "A multimedia history of World War I" The war to end all wars on BBC site "The Heritage of the Great War" The British Army in the Great War...