WW2

Question 1

Pearl Harbor

Answer 1

December 7 1941; Japan bombs America’s navy base

Question 2

Canadian Involvement in WWII (5)

Answer 2

Hong Kong, Dieppe, Battle of the Atlantic, Canada in the Air, Italian Campaign

Question 3

Operation Jubilee

Answer 3

Dieppe Raid 1942: Britian attacking a German stronghold along the coast of France

Question 4

Lebensraum

Answer 4

concept of expansion

Question 5

Which allied army arrived in Berlin first?

Answer 5

The Russian Army

Question 6

Causes of WWII (5)

Answer 6

WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles, Great Depression impact, League of Nations, fascism, Hitler and Nazi Germany

Question 7

The Miracle at Dunkirk

Answer 7

Germany holds back their army and English fishermen and sailors save 350,000 men during a boat shortage

Question 8

Blitzkrieg

Answer 8

German ‘Lightning warfare’; nightly attacks on Britian

Question 9

The Big Three

Answer 9

Britain, Soviet Union, US

Question 10

Yalta Conference

Answer 10

1945; Germany is divided into occupation zones controlled by Allies

Question 11

Axis countries

Answer 11

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 12

Allied countries

Answer 12

UK, Soviet Union, China, and France

Question 13

Allied leaders

Answer 13

Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill

Question 14

Axis leaders

Answer 14

Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito

Question 15

Beer hall puscht

Answer 15

1932; Hitler’s failed attempt to overthrow the government, he goes to jail

Question 16

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 16

Hitler’s laws to take away the rights of Jews in Germany

Question 17

Hitler’s action that caused declaration of war

Answer 17

Invasion of Poland

Question 18

when

Britain declares war on Germany

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Answer 18

September 3 1939

Question 19

Harry Truman

Answer 19

allows the atomic bomb to be dropped on the Japanese

Question 20

August 6 1945

Answer 20

First atomic bomb was dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima

Question 21

August 9 1945

Answer 21

The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki

Question 22

The Iron Curtain

Answer 22

the division between communist and capitalist nations

Question 23

Fascists

Answer 23

people who believed countries should be controlled by one party and one leader

Question 24

Which country did Italy invade in 1935

Answer 24

Ethiopia

Question 25

The biggest Canadian contribution to WWII

Answer 25

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

Question 26

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 26

The British Prime Minister that negotiated the Munich Agreement

Question 27

The Munich agreement

Answer 27

1938; Germany gets some Czchechoslovakia

Question 28

The black pit

Answer 28

Part of the Atlantic Ocean with no cover by the air force

Question 29

September 10 1945

Answer 29

Japan surrenders to the USA

Question 30

The War Measures Act

Answer 30

gave the government the power to seize Japanese property and remove people from their homes

Question 31

Which Allied army arrived in Berlin first?

Answer 31

The Russian army

Question 32

When was the battle of Britain

Answer 32

July - October 1940

Question 33

Turning point in the war

Answer 33

Hitler betrays Russia

Question 34

When did Hitler betray Russia?

Answer 34

1941