Ww2 Flashcards
(28 cards)
(Matching) Benito Mussolini
- Italian politician
-Lead the national faccist party
-Mussolini wanted to recreate the Roman Empire and bring Italy back to greatness
-Mussolini invades Ethiopia
(Matching) Mackenzie King
-appeasement
-refused to make unconditional military commitments to Britain
- built up the RCAF and RCN
(Matching) Adolf Hitler
-Withdrew Germany from League of Nations
-Invades Austria (appeasement)
-Leader of the Germans
(Matching) Maurice duplessus
-premier and leader of the union nationale in Quebec tried to use the war for political gains (back fires)
(Matching) Harry Truman
Us president harry truman orders the dropping of an atomic bomb on Japan
(Matching) Josef Stalin
-Nazi Soviet pact (can’t invade)
-Poland is divided between UssR and nazi germany
(Matching) Tommy Douglas
Saskatchewans premiere
Created free health care
(Matching) Neville chamberlain
-British prime minister who promoted the policy of appeasement when hitler raised Austria.
-Wanted to avoid war
(Matching) Winston Churchill
-PM of united kingdom
-Stood alone against Hitler when France fell
-Was joined by the rest of allied powers
(Matching) Franklin D Roosevelt
-US president
-declares war after Japan attacked pearl harbour
WW2 end date in Europe and pacific
VE Day may 8th 1945
VJ Day sept 2nd 1945
Axis powers
Germany Italy Japan
Allied powers
USA Soviet Union united kingdom France Canada china
D day
5 beaches attacked by allied powers that were filled with Germans in Normandy France
Victoria cross recipients at dippe
LT-Col Meritt
Captain JW Foote
RCAF, RCN, BCATP
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Canadian Navy
British commonwealth Air Training plan( Train pilots)
Dunkirk
Event where over 300’000 British and French soldiers were trapped on a beach in dunkirk. The British ordered operation dynamo which freed nearly everybody
Canada entering the war
-Canada enters the war just 1 week after Britain declares war on nazi germany
-Canada made their own decision to join unlike WW1
-built ships, planes, d day
Corvette ship
-Small ship used to protect other bigger ships
Protects against German u boats
Sicily and ortana
-Massive invasion in Italy where allies push the nazis back.
-Ortanna is where the Nazis fought back
-house to house combat
-Nazis we’re defeated
Operation jubilee
Allies wanted to recapture France form the Nazis
Everything went wrong with the attack
Gustav Line
Line of German defense across Italy to stop the allies
Hitler line
Line located behind the gustav line
Canadas national shame
-Japan attacks pearl harbour so they on our soil
-They were taken and put into camps
Can government thought it was necessary for safety
Human right violation
(Compensation) (appologize)
