chapter 3

Question 1

What was the outcome of the Battle of Hong Kong for Canadian soldiers?

Answer 1

They were taken prisoner by the Japanese.

Question 2

Why was the Dieppe Raid important to Allied success in World War Two?

Answer 2

The Allies learned valuable lessons to assist them in planning the Normandy Landings.

Question 3

Which incident first made Canadians realize Canada was involved in the Cold War?

Answer 3

the detection of a spy ring operating in Canada

Question 4

Which course of action did Canada take at the end of fighting in the Korean War?

Answer 4

It supported a ceasefire between opposing north and south forces.

Question 5

British declaration of war

Answer 5

September 3rd 1939, after German invaded Poland

Question 6

Canadian declaration of war

Answer 6

Joined shortly after Germany invaded Poland , and after Britain declared war. Made their own decision

Question 7

Canadian attitude towards entry into WWII

Answer 7

Many people did not want to join as they thought it did not affect them. This was a debated topic

Question 8

State of Canadian forces before WWII

Answer 8

They were unprepared and small in number. No cheering in the streets as many people were nervous about last war

Question 9

British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

Answer 9

Canada hosted and trained . Pilots and other
flight personnel from all over the Commonwealth came to Canada to train
with British instructors.

Question 10

Crown Corporations

Answer 10

s businesses and
industries owned by the Canadian
government

Question 11

Axis Powers

Answer 11

Germany, Italy and Japan

Question 12

Phoney War

Answer 12

‘Phoney War’ is the name given to the period of time in World War Two from September 1939 to April 1940 when, after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, seemingly nothing happened

Question 13

Blitzkrieg

Answer 13

German war tactic of surprise

attacks by tanks and fighter planes

Question 14

Dunkirk

Answer 14

French Port , Surrounded by Germans. Allies would have lost a huge portion of their armies. Escaped across the channel of Dunkirk. 340000 soilders escaped.

Question 15

Battle of Britain

Answer 15

an air campaign
launched
in 1940 by the Royal Air Force to stop the
Germans from achieving air superiority

Question 16

Operation Sea Lion

Answer 16

hitler’s plan to invade Britain. Involved being more superior in the air

Question 17

Luftwaffe

Answer 17

the German air force

Question 18

Joseph Stalin

Answer 18

the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

Question 19

Pearl Harbour

Answer 19

1941the Japanese bombing of

the U.S. naval base in Hawaii

Question 20

Hong Kong (1941)

Answer 20

Japan’s attack on
the British colony of Hong Kong in which
there were heavy Canadian losses

Question 21

Dieppe Raid

Answer 21

the 1942 trial raid by
Canadian troops against Germany’s occupation
of Dieppe; Canada suffered heavy
losses

Question 22

Battle of the Atlantic

Answer 22

the struggle
between the Allies and the Axis powers to
control the Allies’ shipping route across
the Atlantic Ocean

Question 23

Corvette

Answer 23

small, fast, warships built in
Canada to help protect convoys in the
Atlantic Ocean

Question 24

Royal Canadian Navy

Answer 24

Only had had only 13 ships
and 1819 sailors. when the Battle of the atlantic started.Massive training and grew to , 400 vessels and more than 100 000 sailors.
By 1941

Question 25

Wolf pack

Answer 25

packs” of German U-boats patrolling the Atlantic.

Question 26

U-boat

Answer 26

German Sub

Question 27

Lend-Lease Program

Answer 27

was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II

Question 28

Atomic bomb

Answer 28

a bomb containing radioactive material, capable of destroying an entire city or region

Question 29

Enigma

Answer 29

A german Codeing Machine

Question 30

Penicillin

Answer 30

an antibiotic, was first isolated in 1929 by British scientist Alexander Fleming and was used to treat infections in humans in 1941.

Question 31

Radar

Answer 31

(radio detection and ranging) is an electronic system that uses radio waves to detect objects beyond the range of vision. Deciding factor in battle of britain

Question 32

Jet planes

Answer 32

The first jet-propelled airplanes were used in the Second World War .both the Axis powers and the Allies worked around the clock to produce as many jets.Not perfected untill 1945.

Question 33

Royal Canadian Air Force

Answer 33

Just like the navy, grew quickly once the war began. More than 215 000 people enlisted in the RCAF and, at one point

Question 34

Operation Husky

Answer 34

a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily (Italy )from the Axis Powers. 9/10 July 1943, and ended on 17 August.

Question 35

Invasion of Italy

Answer 35

1943 Allied battles to recapture Europe from the south, through Sicily and Italy, Tried to enter the soft underbelly of the Axis but proved to be hard

Question 36

Battle of Ortona

Answer 36

Canadians captured the town on December 28, 1943, but lost 1372 soldiers before the Germans withdrew. After capturing Ortona, had to capture several smaller villages, cross the river Moro, and fight across several kilometres of German-occupied territory.

Question 37

D-Day

Answer 37

June 6, 1944; the day Allied armies, including Canada, invaded France; the biggest Allied invasion of the Second World War. The battle of Normandy

Question 38

Operation Overlord

Answer 38

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies launched a full-scale | invasion of Europe called

Question 39

Juno Beach

Answer 39

the nine-kilometre stretch of beach in France where Canadian troops landed on D-Day

Question 40

Sword, Omaha, Gold, Utah

Answer 40

The beaches were code-named at Normandy on DDay

Question 41

Liberation of Netherlands

Answer 41

Once the Allied forces had reached the Rhine River and Germany, the Canadians were given a separate task: liberating the Netherlands.

Question 42

Holocaust

Answer 42

the Nazi imprisonment and murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5 million other peoples during the Second World War

Question 43

Final Solution

Answer 43

f Hitler’s elite police unit,

Question 44

Auschwitz

Answer 44

A concentration Camp in Poland

Question 45

Canadian Response to Holocaust

Answer 45

Jewish refugees were seen as a burden on the state. There was a discrimination or hostility toward Jewish people

Question 46

The Manhattan Project

Answer 46

the code name during the Second World War for the American plan to develop the first atomic bomb

Question 47

Canadian uranium

Answer 47

Canada contribute uranium for the Manhattan project. Bought the Eldora mine Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, to produce the uranium.

Question 48

Hiroshima

Answer 48

The first place the USA Bombed in Japan

Question 49

Victory Bonds

Answer 49

bonds issued by the Canadian government to support the war effort

Question 50

Wartime Prices and Trade Board

Answer 50

also established to help reduce social unrest. It limited the power of trade unions by controlling wages so that striking would be less effective.

Question 51

Unemployment insurance

Answer 51

Insurance that went to those who had no job. Rich did not like it as they did not want their tax money go to those who are poor

Question 52

Family Allowance

Answer 52

a monthly government payment to families with children to help cover the costs of child maintenance

Question 53

Conscription Crisis

Answer 53

Prime Minister Mackenzie King had promised there would be no conscription when Canada declared war in 1939. In response to these demands, King’s government quickly brought in the National Resources Mobilization Act (NRMA). This Act gave the government special emergency powers to take over the nation’s resources.

Question 54

National Selective Services Act

Answer 54

his Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft

Question 55

Arsenal of Democracy

Answer 55

``` a slogan coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in December 1940 promising to help the Allies fight the Germans by providing military supplies while staying out of the actual fighting ```

Question 56

Igor Gouzenko

Answer 56

proved that a Soviet spy ring was operating | within the Canadian government

Question 57

Cold War

Answer 57

``` a period lasting approximately from 1945 to 1989 when there was tension and hostility between the communist Soviet Union and its allies and the capitalist United States and its allies ```

Question 58

Superpower

Answer 58

``` the term used to refer to the United States and Soviet Union in the post–Second World War period when both were engaged in building up powerful arsenals of weapons of mass destruction as deterrents against aggression ```

Question 59

NATO

Answer 59

``` North Atlantic Treaty Organization the mutual defence organization set up to protect several Western European countries, Canada, and the U.S. from possible aggression from the U.S.S.R. after the Second World War ```

Question 60

Warsaw Pact

Answer 60

``` a post–Second World War military alliance established in 1955 involving the Soviet Union and the Sovietblock countries of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania ```

Question 61

Berlin Wall

Answer 61

A powerfull symbol of Cold war tensions

Question 62

DEW line

Answer 62

The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line. radar stations in northern Canada set up between 1958 and 1960 to detect Soviet activity over the North Pole

Question 63

NORAD

Answer 63

``` a defence agreement signed in 1958 between Canada and the United States (known as the North American Air Defence Agreement until 1981) ```

Question 64

United Nations (UN)

Answer 64

) an organization established in 1945 to bring peace and security to the world.

Question 65

UN Charter

Answer 65

a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power. It was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, United States, on 26 June 1945, by 50 of the 51 original member countries.

Question 66

UN – veto power

Answer 66

It has often prevented the United Nations from taking decisive action. By 1955, as the Cold War escalated, the veto was used 78 times

Question 67

World Health Organization (WHO)

Answer 67

the United Nations health organization responsible for providing leadership for global health

Question 68

UNICEF

Answer 68

United Nations Children’s Fund a UN organization that works to protect children’s rights, to make sure the basic needs of children are met and to help children reach their full potential; originally called United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund

Question 69

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Answer 69

to stabilize the world economy by helping countries that face great debt and the collapse of their currencies.

Question 70

Korean War

Answer 70

Began in 1950, a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South. China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.

Question 71

Suez Crisis

Answer 71

invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France. aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power

Question 72

UNEF + peacekeeping

Answer 72

the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was created in Eastern Europe , Serbia, Croatia, BosniaHerzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Montenegro, as well as two autonomous regions, Kosovo and Vojvodina. . United Nations peacekeeping missions, which included Canadian forces, were sent into the area, but they were unable to control the situation

Question 73

Globalization

Answer 73

a process by which the regions and countries of the world are becoming economically and culturally interconnected

Question 74

APEC

Answer 74

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim member economies that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Question 75

Lester Pearson

Answer 75

Won a nobel peace prize for helps to defuse the Suez crisis

Question 76

John Diefenbaker

Answer 76

the Progressive Conservatives formed a | minority government headed elected in 1957.

Question 77

Avro Arrow

Answer 77

``` Canadain Supersonic Jets. , Canada was a leader in the field 1950s, was a leader in the field. Even though the Avro project was cancelled in 1959, the memory of the Arrow remains ```

Question 78

Vietnam War

Answer 78

. This war followed the First Indochina War (1946–54) and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies (Commy vs non Commy)

Question 79

Pierre Trudeau + foreign policy

Answer 79

foreign policy that was less dependent on U.S. approval.

Question 80

middle power

Answer 80

a nation that is not a superpower | but has international influence (Canada)

Question 81

Commonwealth

Answer 81

countries that had | once belonged to the British Empire

Question 82

La Francophonie

Answer 82

French speaking states

Question 83

CIDA

Answer 83

CIDA’s responsibility was to boost foreign aid to less industrialized countries. Countries receiving aid would have to agree to use it to buy products manufactured in Canada.

Question 84

Brian Mulroney + foreign policy

Answer 84

Wanted to grow closer to the USA

Question 85

Free Trade Agreement

Answer 85

``` the agreement that came into effect in 1989 between Canada and the United States to allow goods produced in each country to cross the border tariff-free ```

Question 86

NAFTA

Answer 86

``` the agreement signed in 1992 and implemented in 1994 between the United States, Mexico, and Canada to create a free trade zone among the countries ```

Question 87

Fall of Communism

Answer 87

Globalization was partly the result of | rapid changes in communications technology . Berlin wall falling. Many Many protests

Question 88

Gulf War, 1991

Answer 88

Persian Gulf War . a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

Question 89

Somalia

Answer 89

Canada was there distributing food. a Somali teenager found wandering in the Canadian base camp. During the night, the teen was tortured and beaten to death. At first, a military inquiry found that only a few low-ranking soldiers had committed this terrible, racist crime. As more evidence came to light, however, it became clear that there had been a high-level attempt to cover up the incident.