4th History Test World War Two

Question 1

How did Mackenzie King get Canadian men to join the army?

Answer 1

social norms and laws and conscription. If you were an able body man you weren’t allowed to do anything but go to war.

Question 2

What are Zombies? How did Canada treat enemy aliens?

Answer 2

The term “enemy alien” referred to the citizens of states legally at war with Canada who resided in Canada during the war.

We put them in internment camps or made them work for us as POW’s (Prisoners of War)

Question 3

Which minority groups contributed to the war effort?

Answer 3

INDIGINOUS
UKRAINIAN CANADIANS 
CHINESE CANADIANS
METIS AND INUIT 
BLACK CANADIANS 
WOMEN

Question 4

A night of complete anarchy. People destroyed Jewish homes, synagogues, stores and any property of the Jews. No one received repercussions for their crimes. WHAT WAS THIS NIGHT CALLED?

Answer 4

Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht (Crystal Night or the night of the broken glass) for two nights a fury of anti-Semitic peoples were led loose.

Question 5

What does Plebiscite mean? And how does it relate to Limited Conscription?

Answer 5

King knew that more troops were needed. So he decided to hold a
plebiscite - a special vote on a specific proposal.

King wanted Canadians’ permission to break his promise not to send conscripts overseas.
“Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary”

Canadians voted and King had the power to call for conscription —- conscription was extended to the end of the war

Question 6

What was a way to save money and see your savings increase in value over time during WW2?

Answer 6

Victory Bonds

Question 7

What is Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 7

Einsatzgruppen were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass-murder, primarily by shooting

Question 8

The Holocaust How did Hitler treat the Jews living in Germany? DONT DO THIS ONE

Answer 8

He took their right (Nuremburg Laws)
He Segragrated them
He put them

Question 9

“Mein Kampf”

Answer 9

Reference to the “filthy Jew” book. HITLERS BOOK

Question 10

What country made it the furthest than any other when invading Normandy on D-Day

Answer 10

Canada

Question 11

What was the name of the Canadian Bomb aimer and that later became an official War Artist?

Answer 11

Millar Brittany

Question 12

What is the Sweet Spring?

Answer 12

The Dutch people were celebrating on the streets that the Canadians had liberated them. It came to be known as the “sweetest spring”

Question 13

What was the “Hunger Winter”?

Answer 13

Germany stopped food shipments to the western Netherlands, creating the “Hunger Winter”, millions of Dutch civilians faced starvation.

Question 14

What is Operation Manna and Chowhound?

Answer 14

This Dutch ceramic plaque commemorates Operations Manna and Chowhound, during which British and American bombers dropped food into and around occupied Dutch cities. The Royal Canadian Air Force’s 405 Squadron helped mark drop zones for British bombers, many of which had Canadian crew members.

Question 15

What were the few months after the liberation of the Dutch Called?

Answer 15

A peaceful summer or Canadian Summer

Question 16

What is “Little Boy’

Answer 16

The Atomic Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

Question 17

What is “Fat Man”

Answer 17

The Atomic Bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

Question 18

Who Created the First Rocket?

Answer 18

The Germans

Question 19

Which Area was the first to be hit with the atomic bombs?

Answer 19

Hiroshima

Question 20

What was the after math of the atomic bombs that dropped on Japan?

Answer 20

• The cloud from the bomb is called a mushroom shaped cloud
• People were vaporized in the eposenter
• Burns
• Black rain (Radioactive debris caused by the A-Bombs)

Question 21

What is V-J 1945

Answer 21

Victory day won by Atomic bombing Hiroshima and Nagisaki

Question 22

Summary of Japanese Canadians interment?

Answer 22

The internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II was the largest forced evacuation of people in Canadian history after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and attacked Hong Kong Canada. More than 22 000 Japanese Canadians were uprooted, stripped of their possessions, and sent away from their homes. Many ended up in work camps. Many lost their citizenship.

Question 23

Was a child who experienced internment camp and ended up being an architect?

Answer 23

Raymond Noriyama

Question 24

What body of water lies between England and Normandy? What name was given to the portable docking facilities the Allies used to help deliver supplies after D-Day?

Answer 24

The English channel

“Pluto,” (“Pipe Lines Under The Ocean”) was even built to carry fuel under the sea from England to Normandy

Question 25

What was the name of the ridge that Canadian soldiers captured south of Caen, France in July 1944 after multiple bloody attempts?

Answer 25

Verrieres ridge

Question 26

What was the Falaise Gap

Answer 26

Was the place that Canadian trapped thousands of retreating german soldiers in the final stages of the Battle of Normandy.

Question 27

What was the battle that marked V-E (victory in euroupe)

Answer 27

The Battle of Normandy otherwise known as D-Day

Question 28

What was the yellow/blue star of David used for?

Answer 28

It is a symbol of Jews and the Nazis forecd them to wear. Our comparable symbol is the crucifix.

Question 29

Top SS officials met in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to work out the details of the Endlosung - the final solution to the Jewish problem. They prepared a plan to secretly murder 11 million Jews in Europe. WHAT WAS THIS EVENT CALLED?

Answer 29

Top SS officials met in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to work out the details of the Endlosung - the final solution to the Jewish problem. They prepared a plan to secretly murder 11 million Jews in Europe.

Question 30

What was the Final Solution

Answer 30

The final “solution to the Jewish problem.” Which are camps and gas chambers.

Hermann Goring made this plan to kill 11 million Jews anyone that is marginalized or communist. He created the gas chambers. Head of the Luftwaffe. German war criminal

Question 31

Describe the phases of the Holocaust:

Answer 31

Phase 1 (1933-34): Jewish people couldn’t do anything involving being intelligent, such as, civil jobs Legal/teaching/medical/press professions. They couldn’t attend school with Germans.

Phase 2 (1935): Jewish people were outraged but it only got worse. The Nuremberg laws were passed, Jewish businesses boycotted and they weren’t considered German citizens and couldn’t marry Germans.

Phase 3 (1938-39): Hitler wouldn’t allow Jews to participate in the Olympics and didn’t congratulate America’s first place runner because he was black, which he was supposed to do, but he had so much hatred for the marginalized. Jews later had been taken to concentration camps, so they can control the Jews more. Jews had to have identification cards and papers if they didn’t they would be killed or beaten. Kristallnacht (Crystal Night or the night of the broken glass) for two nights a fury of anti-Semitic peoples were led loose. Jews were prohibited from attending school,couldn’t enter public places and now had curfews.

Phase 4 (1939-45)- Death Camps: These camps were set up in Poland. Most infamous camps were Aushwits, Treblinka and Belzec. After surviving the train ride, the Jewish people were separated into categories of work or death. If it was death, they were showered and executed with Zyklon B gas. If it was work, they had their head shaved, tattoos with a number for marking and a uniform. This dehumanisation caused six million to die because of the hard labour and little to eat.

Question 32

What gas were the jewish peoples killed with?

Answer 32

Zyklon B gas

Question 33

What is Productive Ahnilation?

Answer 33

Slave labour. Work the Jews to death. “Work will set you free” is what was on top of the gates of the camps, they told them that the more work they did, the freer they would be.

Question 34

What were the Supervisor Called who would oversee the Jewish people in the death camps and would shout and beat them.

Answer 34

Capo

Question 35

Describe ghettos

Answer 35

Jews were forced to leave their homes and were crowded into slums. These were called Ghettos. ← more than one family, people starving, no water, not heat, people dead on the floors.

Question 36

Who was Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 36

A physicist; that is known as “father” of the atomic bomb.

Question 37

Who was Americas president at the time of the Atomic bombs dropping?

Answer 37

Trumen and he decided to drop the bombs with the help of canada making uranium.

Question 38

The country that gets to Berlin first gets to control Germany after Hitler dies. Who gets there first?

Answer 38

Russia gets to Berlin first.

Question 39

Who was Josef Mengele

Answer 39

Also known as the Angel of Death (German: Todesengel), was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II

Question 40

Describe Nuremberg Laws

Answer 40

• For the Jewish people, this Law meant major restrictions on their rights. They may have felt like their life no longer had meaning and they were doomed to serve the Aryans. The rights that were applied to them were:
  1. Only being allowed to marry someone who is Jewish,
  2. There could not be unmarried intercourse between the Jews and Germans or related blood,
  3. They could not have servants who were German females, or related blood under the age of 45.
  4. They were not allowed to fly the Reich ri National flag or display the colours.
  5. If they did any of these things they would have to do hard labour, men would go to prison, fines and penalties.

Question 41

What was the name of a third-generation Japanese Canadian was interned along with his family at the age of six. He wrote about the experience:
Internment?

Answer 41

David Suzuki

Question 42

Describe the War Measure Act

Answer 42

Canada used the War Measures Act to create both internment and prisoner-of-war camps. AND Conscription

Question 43

What was operation Barbarossa?

Answer 43

Operation Barbarossa played a major role in Nazi genocide, as mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, closely followed invading German troops. Hitler’s late 1941 attack on Moscow failed, and a vicious counterattack forced German forces back from the Soviet capital

The Soviets had time to defend their capital. As the brutal Russian winter took hold the German advance ground to a halt just short of the city. Soviet forces then counterattacked, forcing the Germans onto the defensive. It was Hitler’s first defeat of the war.

Question 44

What is the Scorched earth’s policy

Answer 44

The scorched-earth policy is a military strategy used throughout history, most notably in the European Theater, targeting anything that could prove useful for the enemy in a particular area, and destroying those assets.

Question 45

What is Ortona, Italy?

Answer 45

Battle of Ortona. The Battle of Ortona, in 1943, was one of the toughest challenges faced by Canadian forces in the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. It was house to house battle, Ortona is Destroyed.

Canadian forces fought one of their toughest battles of the war in a bid to capture the town of Ortona. The month-long campaign — first at the Moro River outside Ortona, then with vicious street fighting in the town itself

Canada was at the eastern part of Ortona