HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Shortage, English Canada, Canadian Comics
14 Sep 2016
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Said the americans would increase the amount of defense purchasing that they were doing within canada. At this point, canada was acting as a huge provider of defense tech for britain thus having to purchase a massive amount of materials from the united states. Therefore to rectify this huge loss of capital, this declaration sought to return some of those finances back to canada while still satisfying britain. Japanese troops began getting really close to alaska by occupying islands getting close to that upper north part of the continent. Therefore to protect themselves domestically, americans build the alaskan. Highway so they can better transport materials and supplies to alaska to secure its defense. This was built over canadian sovereign land though passing from the. United states through canada to the united states. By the end of ww2, there was 15,000 united states troops on canadian soil.
