Technology Flashcards
Submarines
Invented snorkel to bring air in and charge batteries so it wasn’t vulnerable when reaching surface
Jet peopled airplanes
Could fly higher and faster then propeller driven planes
Coding machine “the enigma”
Converted radio messages into code so they Couldn’t be understood by enemy
Synthetics
Raw materials were no longer available so synthetics were developed
Synthetics were superior and better
The German V-2 rocket
New weapon
Range of 350km
Had deadly accuracy
Medical technology
Penicillin
Wasn’t used to treat infections until 12 years later
Plastic surgery to repair hands feet and faces during war
Atomic bomb
Sphere sized baseball was equal to over 20 000 tones of TNT
One atomic bomb could cripple an entire medium sized city
Minister of interior for Wilfred Laurier
Clifford Sifton
Attract immigrants
Terrorist group responsible for assassination on archduke and archduchess and individual in charge of murder
Blank hand
Gavrilo princip
Took over FDR and dropped atomic bombs
Harry S Truman
Who wrote O Canada
Leveille
Radar
Provides information about distance, shape, size, position, direction, and speed of an object
Lex helmer
Inspiration for Flanders fields
Benito Mussolini
Prime minister 1920s-1940s
Basilica zaitsev
Famous Soviet Union sniper in Stalingrad