GR.10 WW2 (DEFINITIONS)

Question 1

Fat Man/Little Boy

Answer 1

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to Japan’s surrender.

Question 2

Scorched Earth

Answer 2

Military strategy of destroying resources to impede an enemy’s advance.

Question 3

BCATP

Answer 3

British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, a WWII initiative for aircrew training.

Question 4

St. Louis

Answer 4

Ship carrying Jewish refugees denied entry to the U.S. during WWII.

Question 5

Operation Overlord

Answer 5

Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 (D-Day).

Question 6

Panzer

Answer 6

German tank division during WWII.

Question 7

Anschluss

Answer 7

Annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938.

Question 8

Juno

Answer 8

One of the five beaches of Normandy where most Canadians landed on D-Day.

Question 9

D-Day

Answer 9

Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Question 10

CWAC

Answer 10

Canadian Women’s Army Corps, women’s branch of the Canadian Army during WWII.

Question 11

Elsie Macgill

Answer 11

First female aircraft designer in the world, pivotal in Canadian aviation during WWII.

Question 12

Camp X

Answer 12

Secret spy training camp in Canada during WWII.

Question 13

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 13

German invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII.

Question 14

Sitzkrieg

Answer 14

“Phoney War” or the period of inactivity on the Western Front early in WWII.

Question 15

Kristallnacht

Answer 15

“Night of Broken Glass,” a violent anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany in 1938.

Question 16

Benito Mussolini

Answer 16

Fascist leader of Italy during WWII.

Question 17

Kamikaze

Answer 17

Japanese suicide pilots during WWII.

Question 18

Sudetenland

Answer 18

The ethnic German region in Czechoslovakia.

Question 19

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 19

Non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939.

Question 20

Jude

Answer 20

A derogatory term used by Nazis for Jewish people.

Question 21

Zombies

Answer 21

Canadian soldiers opposed conscription that were deployed in 1944 (~16000 soldiers)

Question 22

Auschwitz

Answer 22

Infamous concentration and extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Question 23

Kanada

Answer 23

German storehouses filled with Jewish belongings.

Question 24

Luftwaffe

Answer 24

German Air Force during WWII.

Question 25

VJ Day

Answer 25

Victory over Japan Day, marking the end of WWII.

Question 26

VE Day

Answer 26

Victory in Europe Day, celebrating the end of WWII in Europe.

Question 27

Maginot Line

Answer 27

French defensive line against German invasion during WWII.

Question 28

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 28

Anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany, leading to persecution of Jews.

Question 29

Operation Jubilee

Answer 29

The Dieppe Raid, a failed allied assault on German occupied France in 1942.

Question 30

Mein Kampf

Answer 30

Autobiography and political manifesto by Adolf Hitler.

Question 31

Lebensraum

Answer 31

Nazi ideology of territorial expansion to provide living space for the Aryan race.

Question 32

Joseph Stalin

Answer 32

Premier of the USSR during WWII.

Question 33

Wehrmacht

Answer 33

German armed forces during WWII.

Question 34

Radar

Answer 34

Technology used for detecting and tracking objects in WWII for air defense.

Question 35

Aryan

Answer 35

Term used by the Nazis to describe the "racially superior" Indo-Europeans.

Question 36

Enigma

Answer 36

German encryption machine and code during WWII.

Question 37

Operation Husky

Answer 37

Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

Question 38

Blitzkrieg

Answer 38

Lightning warfare, a fast and intense military campaign.

Question 39

Pogrom

Answer 39

Violent attacks against a particular ethnic or religious group, often targeting Jews.

Question 40

Emperor Hirohito

Answer 40

Emperor of Japan during WWII.

Question 41

SS

Answer 41

Schutzstaffel, elite paramilitary unit of the Nazi Party.

Question 42

Ghettos

Answer 42

Segregated areas where Jews were forced to live in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Question 43

Operation Sea Lion

Answer 43

Nazi Germany's plan for the invasion of Britain (not executed).

Question 44

Stuka

Answer 44

German dive bomber used during WWII.

Question 45

Shoah

Answer 45

Hebrew term for the Holocaust.