History Of WWII: For Canada

Question 1

What was the name of the new political party that took power in Germany in 1933?

Answer 1

Nazis

Question 2

Who was the leader of that party?

Answer 2

Adolf Hitler

Question 3

How was Germany struggling after war?

Answer 3

Lost land, army, navy, and Air Force, and had to take total blame of damage

Question 4

Who did Hitler blame for Germany’s problems?

Answer 4

Jews, Treaty of Versailles

Question 5

What country did Germany invade first?

Answer 5

Poland

Question 6

Why did Canada follow Britain into war?

Answer 6

They thought that Hitler and the Nazis had to be stopped by invading other countries

Question 7

How did Canada feel about joining this war?

Answer 7

The agony [AH-go-NEE] was still fresh in their minds

Question 8

Who was Canada’s prime minister at this time?

Answer 8

Mackenzie king

Question 9

What was two types of technology used in war?

Answer 9

Fast-moving tanks, dive-bombing airplanes

Question 10

What is the German word for lightning war?

Answer 10

Blitzkrieg

Question 11

Why did Britain desperately needed Canada?

Answer 11

Because they get everything for war there

Question 12

What was the name of the devastating battle that saw Canada lose 3000 out of 5000 soldiers?

Answer 12

It was called the “Dieppe”

Question 13

What was the German word for lightning war?

Answer 13

blitzkrieg

Question 14

What were 2 countries in the Allied powers?

Answer 14

France, Russia

Question 15

What were the 3 main countries in the Axis powers?

Answer 15

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 16

What were 3 things Canada produced at home to support war?

Answer 16

They produced tanks, planes, and ships

Question 17

What did Ford and GM join to create? What was it used for?

Answer 17

Canadian Military Pattern Truck, it was used for troops and supplies

Question 18

What were 3 jobs that women did outside of the home?

Answer 18

Built things for war, drove buses, worked on farms.

Question 19

Why did women face discrimination?

Answer 19

Some people thought that they shouldn’t be working, and were pay less then men.

Question 20

How much did the government spend on the war?

Answer 20

About 4 billion dollars.

Question 21

What is a victory bond?

Answer 21

Money loaned to the government to help finance the war. Paid back after war with interest.

Question 22

What were 3 ways Canadians at home were affected by shortages during the war?

Answer 22

They did not have a lot of products on shelves, no gas for family car, stopped building home supplies.

Question 23

What products were rationed? WHY?

Answer 23

Coffee, tea, butter, sugar, meat, gasoline. Because they could only buy a small amount of these things, and because of shortages.

Question 24

What action caused Canadians to be worried about Japan?

Answer 24

Bombing Pearl Harbour

Question 25

What did the Canadian government do to Japanese-Canadians?

Answer 25

Moved them somewhere else, and put them in internment camps

Question 26

When did the government apologize for this horrible treatment?

Answer 26

1988

Question 27

What did survivors receive?

Answer 27

$21 000 per survivor

Question 28

Why did King have to introduce conscription, even though he had promised not to?

Answer 28

He needed more soldiers, and lost many men.

Question 29

What were three ways that life was still the same for children during the war?

Answer 29

They still went to school, played sports, listened to the radios

Question 30

What were three ways that life was different for children during the war?

Answer 30

Teachers spoke of battles in faraway places, more chores to do at home, less music, more news on ratio.

Question 31

What were women allowed to do during this war that they couldn’t do in WWII?

Answer 31

The government let women serve in uniform

Question 32

What 4 jobs did these women perform?

Answer 32

Cooks, clerks, drivers, and messagers.

Question 33

How many women joined the armed forces in WWII?

Answer 33

More than 45 000

Question 34

What 2 reasons why women joined the armed forces?

Answer 34

Some believed it was their job as a Canadian, many others just wanted a break from their daily lives.

Question 35

What is the Home Guard?

Answer 35

Helped protect Canada from attack, guarded prisoners of war sent to Canada

Question 36

What happened on June 1944? What was this day called?

Answer 36

It was the day that the Allies begun the liberation of France, D-Day

Question 37

What is the name of the final battle?

Answer 37

Battle of Normandy

Question 38

What 3 facts did the textbook describes from May 8 1945?

Answer 38

Canadians poured into the streets to celebrate, Hitler was dead, Germany’s armies had been defeated

Question 39

Why were troops still fighting in the Pacific?

Answer 39

They were preparing to fight with the United States, and invade Japan.

Question 40

What did the USA use for the first time? What was the result of this weapon?

Answer 40

Atomic bomb, it destroyed two cites in Japan.

Question 41

What 3 countries were involved in creating the atomic bomb?

Answer 41

Americans, British, and Canadian scientists.

Question 42

Why were people divided over the use of this bomb?

Answer 42

Some people thought it saved a lot of lives, and some thought that it should’ve not been used.

Question 43

What is the meaning of the word Holocaust?

Answer 43

Six million Jews and five million people from other minority groups get murdered.

Question 44

What 4 groups of people who were victims of the Holocaust?

Answer 44

Jews, Roma, political prisoners, homosexuals

Question 45

What was the name of the largest Death Camp? How many were murdered?

Answer 45

Auschwitz, 1.5 million Jews

Question 46

Why did Hitler created the Holocaust?

Answer 46

He wanted to create a pure race of Germans, and he also said that they were less than human, and by killing certain groups, all their problems will be solved.

Question 47

How long did WWII last?

Answer 47

1939 - 1945.