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  • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world6 Days
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    3 hours ago

    Yawn.

    When the United Kingdom declared war on Germany in August 1914, Canada was a Dominion of the British Empire with full control over only domestic affairs and thus automatically joined the First World War. After the war, the Canadian government wanted to avoid a repeat of the Conscription Crisis of 1917.

    When Britain entered World War II in September 1939, some experts suggested that Canada was still bound by Britain’s declaration of war because it had been made in the name of their common monarch.