Battles Of Ww2 Flashcards
Battle of Hong long significance
Britain knew that Hong Kong would fall if the Japanese attacked, they planned to appear intimidating to prevent that from happening
Japanese won
It was the first Canadian engagement in the war
Where was the battle of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
290 Canadians died troops were from Winnipeg and Quebec City
Dates of the battle of Hong Kong
Attacked on December 7
December 11 first Canadian engagement
13 and 17 surrender options
December 25 1941 official surrender
Where was the battle of Dunkirk
Beaches of Dunkirk northern France
What happened in the battle of Dunkirk
Germans had surrounded the allies, troops were pushed to the beaches of Dunkirk
400000 awaited evacuation they were slowly picked off by air raids
With help of civilian boats 350000 evacuated rather than 45000
If not have happened, Germany may have won the war
Significance of die pow
Showed the allies ability to plan amphibious attacks
Failure helped plan for d day
Date of dieppe
August 19 1942
Operation jubilee
Dieppe facts
First engagement of Canadian army on European front
Showed ability to plan amphibious attacks
Wanted to draw planes away from Russians
Approx 5000 Canadian forces
Location if dieppe
French coastal port of dieppe came ashore from 5 different points 16 km stretch
Hunger winter liberation of the Netherland a
Rations cut down to less than 329 calories a day
Resorted to eating tulip bulbs
Major hunger elisdemic
Formal surrender day of Netherlands
May 5
Battle of Rhineland
Largest Canadian army commanded by Canadian officer
Battle of acheldt
Netherlands after d day September 1944-1945 Liberated the Netherlands for Canada Opened port of antwerp Cleared northern and western Netherlands Allowed food and relief to reach people
D day date
June 6 1944
Canadian contribution
Attacked Juno beach one of the five location in Normandy landings
From counselled to saint auburn sir met
Invasion involved troops from 3rd Canadian division
