Ireland during WW2

Question 1

Neutrality

Answer 1

A refusal to take part in a war between other nations

Question 2

Sovereignty

Answer 2

A country having full authority to govern itself.

Question 3

First Amendment of the Constitution Act

Answer 3

This gave the government the power to act outside the constitution during a period of war.

Question 4

The Emergency.

Answer 4

This is what World War 2 was referred to as in Ireland [ South]

Question 5

Offences against the State Act 1939

Answer 5

It was passed to permit internment[ imprisonment without trial] and to deal with the threat to neutrality from the pro - German IRA.

Question 6

The Emergency Powers Act

Answer 6

This gave the government almost total power to secure public safety and the preservation of the state.

Question 7

Department of supplies

Answer 7

This was created to organise the rationing and supply of food , fuel and other materials.

Question 8

Rationing

Answer 8

During the war in Ireland clothes, bread , tea, gas and electricity were rationed .This meant that you were only allowed a certain amount of these products.

Question 9

Censorship

Answer 9

There was limit on the amount of information that people could access.

Question 10

Seán Lemass

Answer 10

He was appointed Minister for Supplies

Question 11

Irish shipping

Answer 11

Ships bought by the Irish government to keep the country supplied during the Emergency[15 ships by 1943]

Question 12

Private motoring banned

Answer 12

There was no petrol for ordinary people .

Question 13

The Glimmer man

Answer 13

An inspector employed by the government to check that people were not wasting gas in their homes

Question 14

Compulsory tillage scheme

Answer 14

Farmers were required to grow a certain amount of wheat.

Question 15

Frank Aiken

Answer 15

Minister for Coordination and Defensive Measures

Question 16

Local Defence Force [LDF]

Answer 16

An army reserve force [ numbered 100,000 by 1943]

Question 17

Sir John Maffey

Answer 17

The UK representative in Ireland,

Question 18

Eduard Hempel

Answer 18

The German Ambassador to Ireland.

Question 19

David Gray

Answer 19

The American Ambassador to Ireland.

Question 20

Winston Churchill

Answer 20

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII [ replaced Chamberlain in May 1940]

Question 21

Malcolm MacDonald

Answer 21

He was sent by Churchill to meet De Valera to discuss the possibility of ending partition in return for Irish support in the war effort.

Question 22

Internment

Answer 22

Over 500 IRA members were imprisoned in the Curragh and 6 members were executed.

Question 23

Seán Russell

Answer 23

An IRA member who had links to the Abwehr[ German intelligence ]

Question 24

Hermann Görtz

Answer 24

A German agent who was sent to Ireland during World War 2.

Question 25

Operation Green

Answer 25

The planned German operation to invade Ireland.

Question 26

Plan W

Answer 26

A plan which set out how the British Army would aid Ireland if Germany invaded the country.

Question 27

North Strand Bombing [ May 1941]

Answer 27

34 killed and 90 wounded when the Germans bombed Dublin.

Question 28

The ‘ American Note’

Answer 28

The USA contacted the Irish government demanding that the German and Japanese ambassadors be expelled from the country.