Unit 3-World War II

Question 1

League of Nations

Answer 1

Established by treaty of Versailles, made up of many countries under collective security

Question 2

Persons case

Answer 2

Case that challenged what women were under the BNA act.

Question 3

Chanak affair

Answer 3

War scare between Britain and turkey that happened in 1922. Britain asked Canada to help them in war but Canada refused. Said it was their own country and their own choice

Question 4

Halibut treaty

Answer 4

Treaty about halibut between Canada and America, Canada insisted it could sign treaty without Britain

Question 5

King-Byng affair

Answer 5

King asked Byng to hold an election but Byng refused. King called it undemocratic for an official appointed by Britain to refuse to take advice of PM

Question 6

Statue of Westminister

Answer 6

The recommendations of the Balfour report became law in 1931. Made all British commonwealth countries independent

Question 7

Winnipeg general strike

Answer 7

May 1919, thirty thousand people went on strike in Winnipeg

Question 8

One big Union

Answer 8

In March 1919 union leaders formed the OBU, represented all Canadians in one big Union

Question 9

On to Ottawa trek

Answer 9

In 1935 more than a thousand people in interior of BC went to go complain to Bennett

Question 10

Prosperity, recession and depression

Answer 10

Prosperity means it’s good. Recession means it’s going down. Depression means it’s bad.

Question 11

Great Depression

Answer 11

People were buying stocks on credit. In October 1929, aka Black Tuesday the stock market crashed and many people lost everything.

Question 12

Appeasement

Answer 12

Munich agreement, chamberlain said he had secured peace. Agreement let hitter take over part of Czechoslovakia on the promise he’d cease his aggression.

Question 13

Nazism and Hitler

Answer 13

Germany was unhappy with results of treaty of Versailles.

Question 14

Stalin

Answer 14

Stalin was communist of Soviet Union

Question 15

Mussolini

Answer 15

Mussolini was an Italian fascist

Question 16

Total war

Answer 16

Canada’s war policy that put supporting war as priority

Question 17

Allied nations

Answer 17

Allies: Britain, France, and Canada, Soviet Union and US joined in 1941.

Question 18

Axis

Answer 18

Japan, Germany, and Italy

Question 19

Defence of Hong Kong

Answer 19

1941, Canadians were defending against an attack by Japan, overwhelmed by the amount of Japanese troops. Many Canadians were taken as prisoners of war.

Question 20

Dieppe raid

Answer 20

Was a Canadian raid in August 1942. Was supposed to fall under the darkness of the night but ships were delayed. High ground played a role.

Question 21

Ortona/Italian campaign

Answer 21

In 1943 Canadian soldiers participated in the allies invasion of Sicily. Advances were slow, on June 4th,1944 they finally took Rome.

Question 22

D-day

Answer 22

June 6th, 1944 d-day was operation overlord. Sword (UK), Gold (UK), Juno (Can), Utah (US), and Omaha (US).

Question 23

Liberation of Belgium/Netherlands

Answer 23

In early April 1945 begun attack on Netherlands, surrounded Germans and they won. Canada air dropped food over them

Question 24

Pearl harbour

Answer 24

On December 7th Japan bombed us’s naval base

Question 25

Hiroshima

Answer 25

First city to have been nuclear bomber, three days later bombed Nagasaki

Question 26

Battle of Atlantic

Answer 26

1939 to 1945, finished when the war ended. The allies defeated the U-boats in 1943 but battle carried on

Question 27

Battle of Britain

Answer 27

Hitler’s goal was “operation sea lion” to invade britain. In 1940 German Luftwaffe started a massive bombing campaign, the British used spitfires and hurricanes and beat hitler. In May 1941 he gave up on his plans

Question 28

Holocaust and final solution

Answer 28

The holocaust was discovered at the end of the war. The final solution was a plan to rid their society of all people were considered undesirable.

Question 29

Paragraph essay

Answer 29

Minorities: bad-racism
Role of women: good-got jobs
Canada nationalism: good-seen as own country cause of Juno
Conscription crisis: bad-French and English divided
Economy: good-produced lots of goods