Random Flashcards

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1
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Significant city in the italian campaign

A

Ortona

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2
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Strategies used at home during the war

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food rationing
victory bonds

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3
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Build the autobahn

A

Hitler

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4
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Canada’s task after D-Day

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liberate (free) the Netherlands

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5
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Britian and allies survived to “fight another day” because of this

A

evacuation of dunkirk

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6
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Canada’s political party agaisn’t going to war

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NDP

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7
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Another name for D-Day

A

Operation overlord
Normandy invasion

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8
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What caused Japanese Canadian’s to be sent to internment camps

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THe bombing of pearl harbour

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9
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Political ideology of the USSR

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Communism

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10
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Top secret WWII Spy training program

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Camp X

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11
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The event that brought the US Into WWII

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The bombing of Pearl Harbour

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12
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May 7, and August 14, 1945

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VE Day and VJ day

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13
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Canada’s Minister of Munition and Supplies

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C.D Howe

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14
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This battle lasted the entire war and was crucial to ensuring victory

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Battle of the Atlantic

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15
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Canada’s pre-WWII foreign policy

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isolationism

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16
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Secret US research and development for the first-ever nuclear bombs.

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Manhattan Project

17
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What is “Mouse Holing”

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Blowing holes through walls to avoid street exposure. Used by Canadian’s during the battle of Ortona.