Midterm Review: WWII

Question 1

British Declaration of War

Answer 1

1939- Sept 3: Germany invade Poland

Question 2

Canadian Declaration of War

Answer 2

1939- Sept 10; Ties with Britain & pride of a new found nation

Question 3

British Commonwealth Air Training Program (BCATP)

Answer 3

Training plan in Canada for war effort to remain

Question 4

Total war

Answer 4

all of the nation’s industry and efforts should go towards the war

Question 5

C.D Howe

Answer 5

known as the Minister of Everything; gear up economy to meet wartime demands

Question 6

Crown corporations

Answer 6

Government owned (prevent bureaucracy)

Question 7

Axis Powers

Answer 7

Germany, Italy (1939), Japan

Question 8

Phoney war

Answer 8

The phoney war was the 6 months before active fighting began as all sides mobilized and positioned their forces

Question 9

Blitzkrieg (lightning war)

Answer 9

1940 Germany -> Denmark & Norway

• German panze (tanks) lightning speed crash thru enemy lines
• war planes bombed
• soldiers cut of communication

Defenders: ??? and surrounded

Question 10

Dunkirk

Answer 10

1940- Allied surrounded @ Dunkirk (French port) -> Allies escaped on boats/ferries/ships to Britain (1944 come back with America and win war)

Question 11

Battle of Britain

Answer 11

1. Radar
2. Fight defense planes effective
3. Joint with commonwealth
   - > Hitler have up

Question 12

Operation Sea Lion

Answer 12

Germany invasion of Britain

-German air force bombing raids (the Blitz) bomb civilians for 55 nights

Question 13

Lend Lease

Answer 13

“Mutual Aid”, supplying its allies with 4 billion dollars worth of war materiel

Question 14

Luftwaffe

Answer 14

German air force

Question 15

Operation Barbarossa (red beard)

Answer 15

Invasion of USSR
Why? Hitler suspicious
- Surprise attack by Germany (stop due 2 cold winter)
- Germany attack again for oil fields (stop again- surrender)
- Soviets retake territory 1944

Question 16

Pearl Harbor 1941

Answer 16

Japan bombed to cripple naval forces (keep US from interfering w/ military action
-> Caused US to join WWII

Question 17

Hong Kong 1941

Answer 17

HK fell to Japan; All Canadian soldiers killed/ imprisoned

Question 18

Dieppe Raid

Answer 18

FAIL! Experimental raid on French port of Dieppe
Goal: 4 attacks b4 sun, 1 main attack
Outcome: Ship met with Germany convoy, ships delayed, poor communication, tanks trapped on beach= FAIL :(

Question 19

Battle of the Atlantic

Answer 19

Britain depend on Can & US for food & military supplies -> Ships sunk by U-Boats in Atlantic

Question 20

Corvette

Answer 20

Canadian small warships; escort convoys, quick small, not seaworthy

Question 21

Wolf Pack

Answer 21

Hundreds of German U-Boats sink da supplies

Question 22

Atomic Bomb

Answer 22

Little Boy; Hiroshima= BOOM! -> 3 days later another bomb dropped

Question 23

Enigma

Answer 23

Coding machine by Germans: Converted radio messages into code so that they could not be understood by the enemy.

Question 24

Radar

Answer 24

radio waves to detect objects beyond vision; tells distance, position, size, shape, direction, and speed

Question 25

Jet Plane

Answer 25

Could fly higher and faster than propeller-driven planes

Question 26

Royal Canadian Navy

Answer 26

Provide 1/2 of escort

Question 27

Royal Canadian Air Force

Answer 27

1/4 (10k) lost lives; Allies had bombing raids aimed at destroying German industry

Question 28

Bomber command

Answer 28

attack the enemy's own military strength - by bombing their airbases, shipping, troops, communications and all industries

Question 29

Invasion of Italy

Answer 29

Churchill saw Italy as "the soft underbelly of Europe." -> Success!

Question 30

Ortona

Answer 30

The Canadians experienced house to house combat against the Nazi's in Ortona.

Question 31

D-Day

Answer 31

June 6, 1944; Operation Overlord

Question 32

Operation Overlord

Answer 32

Invasion of Europe; Air attacks followed -> paratroops

Question 33

Juno Beach

Answer 33

30k+ Canadian soldiers; obstacles (wires/barriers) | Outcome: Lower amount of death/wounds than expected

Question 34

Sword, Gold, Omaha, Utah

Answer 34

Operation Overlord codenamed beaches

Question 35

Liberation of Holland

Answer 35

Germany destroy port cities & flood country side; Canada attack; high casualties -> surrounded Germany; Canada give food & seen as heroes!

Question 36

Holocaust

Answer 36

Death camps! everybody dead; Zyklon-B gas!

Question 37

Final Solution

Answer 37

plan to rid their society of all people they considered undesirable

Question 38

Auschwitz

Answer 38

Death Camp in Poland

Question 39

Manhattan project

Answer 39

US top-secret plan to develop a nuclear bomb

Question 40

Canadian uranium

Answer 40

important component of the bomb, produced @ Eldorado mine at Great Bear Lake, NWT. Canada sekretly buy

Question 41

Hiroshima

Answer 41

Fat Man; 70k killed 130k wounded

Question 42

Wartime Price and Trade Board

Answer 42

1941: Froze all wages and princes to prevent inflation- James Ilsley

Question 43

Unemployment Insurance

Answer 43

1940: created by King; temporary financial assistance to Canadians

Question 44

Family Allowance

Answer 44

Program developed by King; help families cover cost of child car

Question 45

War Measures' Act

Answer 45

1942: Jap-Can in BC ->Okanagan Valley (relocation centers)

Question 46

National Resources Mobilization Act

Answer 46

- Gave gov. emergency power to mobilize RESOURCES | - conscription, ONLY for home defense

Question 47

Conscription Plebiscite 1942

Answer 47

Vote to remove promise regarding conscription; Majority (Y) -except Quebec

Question 48

Conscription Crisis 1944

Answer 48

"conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription"

Question 49

Japanese-Canadians internment

Answer 49

Isolated internment camps detained w/o trail until end of war

Question 50

Enemy alien

Answer 50

Jap-Canadians

Question 51

Role of women

Answer 51

Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service; wireless operators,coders, drivers, and operational plotters

Question 52

Rationing

Answer 52

controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services: restricts how much people are allowed to buy/consume