Appeasement is 'giving a bully what he wants'. Hitler built up his army. After 1936, he reintroduced conscription, and war-tested his armed forces in the Spanish Civil War. Britain and France turned a blind eye to these breaches of the Treaty of Versailles.
France and England were the two countries who had land claims in Canada. The treaty ending the French Indian War, in 1763, relinquished France's land claims in Canada.
Due to geopolitical reasons, most of emigration out of Africa and Middle East have been to the Western Hemisphere; instead of the East. Adding the original native Americans in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere is currently much more diverse than the East.
