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| Total War | A time when all industries, materials, and people are put to work for the war effort. |
| Wartime Prices and Trade Board (WPTB) | A group established by the government in 1942 to control prices and supervise the distribution of food and other scarce commodities. |
| Ration card | A card necessary for buying items such as gasoline, butter, sugar, meat, tea, and coffee during wartime. |
| Ogdensburg Agreement | A Canadian-American joint board on the defence formed in 1940 to improve the defence of both countries. |
| Lend-Lease Act | This 1941 act made it easier for Britain to buy American military supplies while the United States remained neutral. |
| Hyde Park Agreement | This 1941agreement ensured that the United States would buy more wartime supplies from Canada, and that Britain could buy Canadian war materials under the Lend-Lease Act. |
| Camp X | The Special Training School #103 at Oshawa, Ontario, which was one of the most top-secret projects of the war. |
| Conscription plebiscite | All citizens are allowed to have a direct vote on an issue of major national importance. |
| War Measures Act | Gave the Canadian Cabinet the power to make decisions during wartime without any debate in the House of Commons. |
| Internment camp | Places where prisoners of war or suspected enemy aliens could be kept under guard during wartime. |
| Custodian of Enemy Property | The Canadian government's promise to hold the property of enemy aliens for safekeeping until after the war. |
| Japanese Property Claims Commission | The commission set up by the Canadian government to review claims by Japanese Canadians who felt they had not been treated fairly. |
| Middle Power | A country less important and powerful than a superpower, but more important than smaller and less powerful countries. |
