WW2 Flashcards
(12 cards)
Name the Allies
Alliances: Great Britain, France, Canada, Russia
Name the Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
Why was the Battle of Hong Kong a difficult event for Canadian troops?
They were outnumbered
What battles did Canadians fight in?
Dieppe, Juno, Italian campaign
How did Dieppe help prepare for D-Day?
Provided information that was essential to the success of D-day
What happened on D-Day? What were the five landing spots called?
- Canada attacked and defended from Germany on Juno beach.
- Juno, Sword, Gold, Omaha, Utah
What did William Lyon Mackenzie King promise about conscription? How did he get out of his promise?
-He promised canadians that they wouldn’t get conscription. He tricked them into it by going around the idea, men worked at home through conscription instead of overseas
What is an atomic bomb? On which two cities was it dropped?
- Any weapon in which the explosion results from the energy released by a reaction involving atomic nuclei
- Dropped the bomb “Little Boy” on Hiroshima
- Dropped the bomb “Fat man” on Nagasaki
What new technologies were used in this war? How did these differ from what those used in World War I?
- Atomic Bombs
- Tanks
- Weapons got more deadlier and more frightening
How did women contribute on the home front? Overseas?
They knitted things for men that were in the trenches, as well keeping factories open
What was “internment”? Which groups were subject to it?
- Take people out of the society and put them in camps.
- Japanese people
- Ukrainian people
What is rationing? What items were rationed during the war?
- allowing each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity).
- Food, Meat, Sugar
