world war 2 unit test 3

Question 1

• Battle of Hong Kong
• Outnumbered
• who ordered and why send troops?
• Surrendered when?

Answer 1

• In dec 7 1941 japanese invaded hong kong.
• Winston and King agreed to send troops bcuz they didn’t want the pacific colony attacked but it was outnumbered
• British commander surrendered on Christmas day losing.

Question 2

WW2 women in the war

Answer 2

• in 1943, women began to work in all industries like bus driving,farms.
• When they couldn’t join workforce they volunteered to knit and serve soldiers.
• When men returned some women resisted their old lives fighting to stay working

Question 3

Pearl Harbour

Answer 3

dec 1941 japan launched a surprise attack on US military base at pearl harbour. US declared war on japan, italty and germany

Question 4

• Benito Mussolini
• Soviet pact
• How was the pact broken?
• Who did Hitler ally with?

Answer 4

• Italian dictator joing with hitler.
• At same time, germany signed a pact with soviet union leader Stalin to not fight each other
• in sept 1940, germany, italy allied with japan. In june 1941 hitler broke pact with soviet union and invaded to get rid of communism and take resources from USSR.
• Soviet union attacked back in 1942 fighting for 2 years.

Question 5

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Launched what?

Answer 5

President of US, launched a “New Deal” to help with economy recovery. and started the Manhattan project

Question 6

• Dunkirk
• Who was trapped?
• Who surrendered?

Answer 6

• British troops tried to defend France,
• in may 1940 the german army captured french/British troops
• only escape for British was by sea to England
• French surrended

Question 7

• WW2 Conscription,
• National resources mobilization act
• What did he promise?
• Plebiscite
• French vs English
• order in Council

Answer 7

• 1940, king made a national resoruces mobilaztion act requiring all men to register for military service in canada
• king promised no conscription overseas service
• in 1942 king issued a plebiscite(vote) giving results on english yes
• french canadians on no conscription
• april 1944 king issued order in council to send 16 000 troops overseas

Question 8

The phony war

Answer 8

B/w May 1939-1940 was known as the phony war when Germany attacked blitzkreg, denmark, norway, netherlands, belgium and luxembourg

Question 9

• Battle of Dieppe
• The fight lost 2 key elements
• Why was it a Disaster?
• New military stategy and planning

Answer 9

• August 1942 allies entered the beaches of the French town of Dieppe.
• The fight lost the element of fighting in darkness and surprise since German convoy saw
• Germany found out and began attacking. Soldiers, tried to get back on ship but they were open targets
• the rocky beaches were hard to fight on
• First disaster war battle for Canadians
• They pushed back time to plan for better invasion(d-day)
• New military strategy was to launch aerial attack

Question 10

• Blitzkrieg
• When did WW2 START, who declared?
• Canada declares?

Answer 10

• blitzkrieg: Lightning war when german attacked Poland
• WW2: Sept 1939-sept 1945
• Britan and France declared war on Germany
• First time for Canada to declare war as independent nation,
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Question 11

• D-day(invasion of Normandy)
• Known as what? (operation…)
• fake plan?
• Who landed in what beaches?
• VE DAY
• Hitler Suicide

Answer 11

• Known as operation overland. in 1944 allies invaded English Channel to beaches of France.
• They convinced Germans their target was Pas de Calais by building fake planes and campaign.
• Allies broke into “Fortress Europe” americans landed at beaches code name Omaha and Utah. British at Gold and Sword. Canadian Juno beach.
• Result pushed german to Berlin. April 1945, Soviet troops reached Berlin and Benito Mussolini was executed by his own people. Hitler commits suicide to not go through was Benito went through.
• May 7, Germany surrended. May 8 1945 allies celebrated VE day for victory in Europe

Question 12

• Manhattan Project
• Harry Truman
• Hiroshima Little
• Nagasaki Fat
• Did japan surrender?

Answer 12

• Roosevelt made Manhattan project with allies, US and Canada to make atomic bomb.
• July 1945 made the atomic bomb.
• New president Harry Truman dropped 2 atomic bombs in 6 Aug 1945
• “little boy” in Hiroshima city a military centre
• “Fat Man” in Nagasaki . Aug 15 1945 japan surrendered.

Question 13

japanese interment

Answer 13

In feb 1942 king used war measures act to order all japanese living near BC into camps

Question 14

Causes of world war 2

Answer 14

1. Appeasement 1. hitler 3.depression

Question 15

• Battle of Ortona
• Where is Ortona?
• 2 days after Christmas day
• Where did fighting continue?

Answer 15

• Ortona in Italy
• Canadians use technique called “mouseholing” blasting a hole in a house.
• 2 days after Christmas they won by driving germans out.
• Fighting continued till 1944 when allies won over Rome in Italy.