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1
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What was the outcome of the Battle of Hong Kong for Canadian soldiers?

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They were taken prisoner by the Japanese.

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Why was the Dieppe Raid important to Allied success in World War Two?

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The Allies learned valuable lessons to assist them in planning the Normandy Landings.

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Which incident first made Canadians realize Canada was involved in the Cold War?

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the detection of a spy ring operating in Canada

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Which course of action did Canada take at the end of fighting in the Korean War?

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It supported a ceasefire between opposing north and south forces.

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British declaration of war

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September 3rd 1939, after German invaded Poland

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Canadian declaration of war

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Joined shortly after Germany invaded Poland , and after Britain declared war. Made their own decision

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Canadian attitude towards entry into WWII

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Many people did not want to join as they thought it did not affect them. This was a debated topic

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State of Canadian forces before WWII

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They were unprepared and small in number. No cheering in the streets as many people were nervous about last war

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British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

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Canada hosted and trained . Pilots and other
flight personnel from all over the Commonwealth came to Canada to train
with British instructors.

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Crown Corporations

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s businesses and
industries owned by the Canadian
government

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Axis Powers

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Germany, Italy and Japan

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Phoney War

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‘Phoney War’ is the name given to the period of time in World War Two from September 1939 to April 1940 when, after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, seemingly nothing happened

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Blitzkrieg

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German war tactic of surprise

attacks by tanks and fighter planes

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Dunkirk

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French Port , Surrounded by Germans. Allies would have lost a huge portion of their armies. Escaped across the channel of Dunkirk. 340000 soilders escaped.

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Battle of Britain

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an air campaign
launched
in 1940 by the Royal Air Force to stop the
Germans from achieving air superiority

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Operation Sea Lion

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hitler’s plan to invade Britain. Involved being more superior in the air

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Luftwaffe

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the German air force

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Joseph Stalin

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the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

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Pearl Harbour

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1941the Japanese bombing of

the U.S. naval base in Hawaii

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Hong Kong (1941)

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Japan’s attack on
the British colony of Hong Kong in which
there were heavy Canadian losses

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Dieppe Raid

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the 1942 trial raid by
Canadian troops against Germany’s occupation
of Dieppe; Canada suffered heavy
losses

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Battle of the Atlantic

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the struggle
between the Allies and the Axis powers to
control the Allies’ shipping route across
the Atlantic Ocean

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Corvette

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small, fast, warships built in
Canada to help protect convoys in the
Atlantic Ocean

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Royal Canadian Navy

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Only had had only 13 ships
and 1819 sailors. when the Battle of the atlantic started.Massive training and grew to , 400 vessels and more than 100 000 sailors.
By 1941

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Wolf pack

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packs” of German U-boats patrolling the Atlantic.

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U-boat

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German Sub

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Lend-Lease Program

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was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II

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Atomic bomb

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a bomb containing radioactive
material, capable of destroying an
entire city or region

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Enigma

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A german Codeing Machine

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Penicillin

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an antibiotic, was first
isolated in 1929 by British scientist Alexander
Fleming and was used to treat infections in
humans in 1941.

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Radar

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(radio detection and
ranging) is an electronic system that uses radio
waves to detect objects beyond the range of
vision. Deciding factor in battle of britain

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32
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Jet planes

A

The first jet-propelled airplanes were used in the
Second World War .both the Axis powers and the Allies worked around the clock
to produce as many jets.Not perfected untill 1945.

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Royal Canadian Air Force

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Just like the navy, grew quickly once the
war began. More than 215 000 people enlisted in the RCAF and, at one
point

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Operation Husky

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a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily (Italy )from the Axis Powers. 9/10 July 1943, and ended on 17 August.

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Invasion of Italy

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1943 Allied battles to
recapture Europe from the south, through
Sicily and Italy, Tried to enter the soft underbelly of the Axis but proved to be hard

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Battle of Ortona

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Canadians captured the town on December 28, 1943, but lost 1372 soldiers before the Germans withdrew. After capturing Ortona, had to capture several
smaller villages, cross the river Moro, and fight across several kilometres
of German-occupied territory.

37
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D-Day

A

June 6, 1944; the day Allied
armies, including Canada, invaded
France; the biggest Allied invasion of the
Second World War. The battle of Normandy

38
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Operation Overlord

A

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies launched a full-scale

invasion of Europe called

39
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Juno Beach

A

the nine-kilometre stretch of
beach in France where Canadian troops
landed on D-Day

40
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Sword, Omaha, Gold, Utah

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The beaches were code-named at Normandy on DDay

41
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Liberation of Netherlands

A

Once the Allied forces had reached the Rhine River and Germany, the
Canadians were given a separate task: liberating the Netherlands.

42
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Holocaust

A

the Nazi imprisonment and
murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5
million other peoples during the Second
World War

43
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Final Solution

A

f Hitler’s elite police unit,

44
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Auschwitz

A

A concentration Camp in Poland

45
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Canadian Response to Holocaust

A

Jewish refugees were seen as a burden on the state. There was a discrimination or hostility
toward Jewish people

46
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The Manhattan Project

A

the code name during
the Second World War for the American
plan to develop the first atomic bomb

47
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Canadian uranium

A

Canada contribute uranium for the Manhattan project. Bought the Eldora mine Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, to produce the
uranium.

48
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Hiroshima

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The first place the USA Bombed in Japan

49
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Victory Bonds

A

bonds issued by the
Canadian government to support the war
effort

50
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Wartime Prices and Trade Board

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also established to help reduce social unrest. It limited the power of trade unions by controlling wages so that striking would be less effective.

51
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Unemployment insurance

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Insurance that went to those who had no job. Rich did not like it as they did not want their tax money go to those who are poor

52
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Family Allowance

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a monthly government payment to families with children to help cover the costs of child maintenance

53
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Conscription Crisis

A

Prime Minister Mackenzie King had promised
there would be no conscription when Canada
declared war in 1939. In response to these demands,
King’s government quickly brought in the National
Resources Mobilization Act (NRMA). This Act
gave the government special emergency powers to
take over the nation’s resources.

54
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National Selective Services Act

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his Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft

55
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Arsenal of Democracy

A 
a slogan coined by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in
December 1940 promising to help the
Allies fight the Germans by providing military
supplies while staying out of the
actual fighting
56
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Igor Gouzenko

A

proved that a Soviet spy ring was operating

within the Canadian government

57
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Cold War

A 
a period lasting approximately
from 1945 to 1989 when there was tension
and hostility between the communist
Soviet Union and its allies and the capitalist
United States and its allies
58
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Superpower

A 
the term used to refer to the
United States and Soviet Union in the
post–Second World War period when both
were engaged in building up powerful
arsenals of weapons of mass destruction
as deterrents against aggression
59
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NATO

A 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
the mutual defence organization
set up to protect several Western
European countries, Canada, and the U.S.
from possible aggression from the
U.S.S.R. after the Second World War
60
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Warsaw Pact

A 
a post–Second World War
military alliance established in 1955
involving the Soviet Union and the Sovietblock
countries of Albania, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary,
Poland, and Romania
61
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Berlin Wall

A

A powerfull symbol of Cold war tensions

62
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DEW line

A

The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line. radar
stations in northern Canada set up
between 1958 and 1960 to detect Soviet
activity over the North Pole

63
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NORAD

A 
a defence agreement
signed in 1958 between Canada and the
United States (known as the North
American Air Defence Agreement until
1981)
64
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United Nations (UN)

A

) an organization
established in 1945 to bring peace and
security to the world.

65
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UN Charter

A

a written grant by a country’s legislative or sovereign power. It was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, United States, on 26 June 1945, by 50 of the 51 original member countries.

66
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UN – veto power

A

It has often prevented the
United Nations from taking decisive action. By 1955, as the Cold War escalated,
the veto was used 78 times

67
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World Health Organization (WHO)

A

the
United Nations health organization
responsible for providing leadership for
global health

68
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UNICEF

A

United Nations Children’s Fund
a UN organization that works to
protect children’s rights, to make sure the
basic needs of children are met and to
help children reach their full potential;
originally called United Nations
International Children’s Emergency Fund

69
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International Monetary Fund (IMF)

A

to stabilize the world
economy by helping countries that face great debt and the collapse of their
currencies.

70
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Korean War

A

Began in 1950, a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South. China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.

71
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Suez Crisis

A

invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France. aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power

72
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UNEF + peacekeeping

A

the Federal People’s
Republic of Yugoslavia was created in
Eastern Europe , Serbia, Croatia, BosniaHerzegovina,
Macedonia, Slovenia, and
Montenegro, as well as two autonomous
regions, Kosovo and Vojvodina. . United Nations peacekeeping
missions, which included
Canadian forces, were sent into the area,
but they were unable to control the situation

73
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Globalization

A

a process by which the
regions and countries of the world are
becoming economically and culturally
interconnected

74
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APEC

A

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim member economies that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

75
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Lester Pearson

A

Won a nobel peace prize for helps
to defuse the Suez
crisis

76
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John Diefenbaker

A

the Progressive Conservatives formed a

minority government headed elected in 1957.

77
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Avro Arrow

A 
Canadain Supersonic Jets. , Canada was a leader in the field  1950s, was a
leader in the field. Even
though the Avro project was
cancelled in 1959, the memory
of the Arrow remains
78
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Vietnam War

A

. This war followed the First Indochina War (1946–54) and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies (Commy vs non Commy)

79
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Pierre Trudeau + foreign policy

A

foreign policy that was less dependent on U.S. approval.

80
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middle power

A

a nation that is not a superpower

but has international influence (Canada)

81
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Commonwealth

A

countries that had

once belonged to the British Empire

82
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La Francophonie

A

French speaking states

83
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CIDA

A

CIDA’s responsibility
was to boost foreign aid to less industrialized
countries. Countries receiving aid would
have to agree to use it to buy products manufactured
in Canada.

84
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Brian Mulroney + foreign policy

A

Wanted to grow closer to the USA

85
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Free Trade Agreement

A 
the agreement
that came into effect in 1989
between Canada and the United States to
allow goods produced in each country to
cross the border tariff-free
86
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NAFTA

A 
the agreement signed in 1992
and implemented in 1994 between the
United States, Mexico, and Canada to
create a free trade zone among the
countries
87
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Fall of Communism

A

Globalization was partly the result of

rapid changes in communications technology . Berlin wall falling. Many Many protests

88
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Gulf War, 1991

A

Persian Gulf War . a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

89
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Somalia

A

Canada was there distributing food. a Somali teenager found wandering in
the Canadian base camp. During the night, the teen was
tortured and beaten to death. At first, a military inquiry
found that only a few low-ranking soldiers had committed
this terrible, racist crime. As more evidence came to
light, however, it became clear that there had been a
high-level attempt to cover up the incident.

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