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Midterm Review: WWII Flashcards

1
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British Declaration of War

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1939- Sept 3: Germany invade Poland

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Canadian Declaration of War

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1939- Sept 10; Ties with Britain & pride of a new found nation

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British Commonwealth Air Training Program (BCATP)

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Training plan in Canada for war effort to remain

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Total war

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all of the nation’s industry and efforts should go towards the war

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C.D Howe

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known as the Minister of Everything; gear up economy to meet wartime demands

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Crown corporations

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Government owned (prevent bureaucracy)

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Axis Powers

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Germany, Italy (1939), Japan

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Phoney war

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The phoney war was the 6 months before active fighting began as all sides mobilized and positioned their forces

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Blitzkrieg (lightning war)

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1940 Germany -> Denmark & Norway

  • German panze (tanks) lightning speed crash thru enemy lines
  • war planes bombed
  • soldiers cut of communication

Defenders: ??? and surrounded

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Dunkirk

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1940- Allied surrounded @ Dunkirk (French port) -> Allies escaped on boats/ferries/ships to Britain (1944 come back with America and win war)

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Battle of Britain

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  1. Radar
  2. Fight defense planes effective
  3. Joint with commonwealth
    - > Hitler have up
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Operation Sea Lion

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Germany invasion of Britain

-German air force bombing raids (the Blitz) bomb civilians for 55 nights

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Lend Lease

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“Mutual Aid”, supplying its allies with 4 billion dollars worth of war materiel

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Luftwaffe

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German air force

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Operation Barbarossa (red beard)

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Invasion of USSR
Why? Hitler suspicious
- Surprise attack by Germany (stop due 2 cold winter)
- Germany attack again for oil fields (stop again- surrender)
- Soviets retake territory 1944

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Pearl Harbor 1941

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Japan bombed to cripple naval forces (keep US from interfering w/ military action
-> Caused US to join WWII

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Hong Kong 1941

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HK fell to Japan; All Canadian soldiers killed/ imprisoned

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Dieppe Raid

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FAIL! Experimental raid on French port of Dieppe
Goal: 4 attacks b4 sun, 1 main attack
Outcome: Ship met with Germany convoy, ships delayed, poor communication, tanks trapped on beach= FAIL :(

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Battle of the Atlantic

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Britain depend on Can & US for food & military supplies -> Ships sunk by U-Boats in Atlantic

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Corvette

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Canadian small warships; escort convoys, quick small, not seaworthy

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Wolf Pack

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Hundreds of German U-Boats sink da supplies

22
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Atomic Bomb

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Little Boy; Hiroshima= BOOM! -> 3 days later another bomb dropped

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Enigma

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Coding machine by Germans: Converted radio messages into code so that they could not be understood by the enemy.

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Radar

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radio waves to detect objects beyond vision; tells distance, position, size, shape, direction, and speed

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Jet Plane

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Could fly higher and faster than propeller-driven planes

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Royal Canadian Navy

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Provide 1/2 of escort

27
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Royal Canadian Air Force

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1/4 (10k) lost lives; Allies had bombing raids aimed at destroying German industry

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Bomber command

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attack the enemy’s own military strength - by bombing their airbases, shipping, troops, communications and all industries

29
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Invasion of Italy

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Churchill saw Italy as “the soft underbelly of Europe.” -> Success!

30
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Ortona

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The Canadians experienced house to house combat against the Nazi’s in Ortona.

31
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D-Day

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June 6, 1944; Operation Overlord

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Operation Overlord

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Invasion of Europe; Air attacks followed -> paratroops

33
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Juno Beach

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30k+ Canadian soldiers; obstacles (wires/barriers)

Outcome: Lower amount of death/wounds than expected

34
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Sword, Gold, Omaha, Utah

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Operation Overlord codenamed beaches

35
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Liberation of Holland

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Germany destroy port cities & flood country side; Canada attack; high casualties -> surrounded Germany; Canada give food & seen as heroes!

36
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Holocaust

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Death camps! everybody dead; Zyklon-B gas!

37
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Final Solution

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plan to rid their society of all people they considered undesirable

38
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Auschwitz

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Death Camp in Poland

39
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Manhattan project

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US top-secret plan to develop a nuclear bomb

40
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Canadian uranium

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important component of the bomb, produced @ Eldorado mine at Great Bear Lake, NWT. Canada sekretly buy

41
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Hiroshima

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Fat Man; 70k killed 130k wounded

42
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Wartime Price and Trade Board

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1941: Froze all wages and princes to prevent inflation- James Ilsley

43
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Unemployment Insurance

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1940: created by King; temporary financial assistance to Canadians

44
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Family Allowance

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Program developed by King; help families cover cost of child car

45
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War Measures’ Act

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1942: Jap-Can in BC ->Okanagan Valley (relocation centers)

46
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National Resources Mobilization Act

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  • Gave gov. emergency power to mobilize RESOURCES

- conscription, ONLY for home defense

47
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Conscription Plebiscite 1942

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Vote to remove promise regarding conscription; Majority (Y) -except Quebec

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Conscription Crisis 1944

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“conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription”

49
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Japanese-Canadians internment

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Isolated internment camps detained w/o trail until end of war

50
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Enemy alien

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Jap-Canadians

51
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Role of women

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Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service; wireless operators,coders, drivers, and operational plotters

52
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Rationing

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controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services: restricts how much people are allowed to buy/consume

Socials 11: Midterm Review (7 decks)

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