WW2

Question 0

Nazi- soviet pact

Answer 0

• division of Poland
• both of them knew that this peace was only temporary
• this bought time for Russia to mobilize and Germany was once again trying to avoid a war if two fronts

Question 1

Italian dictator

Answer 1

Mussolini

Question 2

Hitlers first three moves

Answer 2

1) invaded Rinland (1936)
2) invaded Austria (1938)
3) invaded Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia (1938)

Question 3

WW2 begins

Answer 3

Poland was the first to be invaded and was taken over within only a few weeks

Question 4

German tanks

Answer 4

Referred to as Panzers

Question 5

Blitzkrieg

Answer 5

A lightning strategy movement done by Germany

Question 6

Russian leader

Answer 6

Stalin

Question 7

Axis power

Answer 7

• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

Question 8

Phoney war

Answer 8

No shots were fired for the first seven months of the war

Question 9

Allies first move

Answer 9

Dig trenches and prepare for trench warfare

Question 10

Appeasement

Answer 10

• talk over agreements rather than go straight to war

- this was ended after Germany invaded Poland

Question 11

Japan

Answer 11

Wanted to take over china

Question 12

Three pronged attack

Answer 12

• blitzkrieg with the schleiffen plan

- Denmark, Norway Way and Belgium where taken

Question 13

German airforce

Answer 13

Luftwaffe

Question 14

Miracle of Dunkirk

Answer 14

The Luftwaffe were supposed to finish off the job but the day was cloudy, fishermen took the soldiers off the beach to safety

Question 15

German fighter plans

Answer 15

• sirens were attached

- the best plane was the Sfeltjunker

Question 16

Hitler election

Answer 16

• Hitler promised work and jobs
• he gave then an outlet for their misery (blaming the Jewish)
• was great at making speeches

Question 17

S.S Louis

Answer 17

1000 Jewish passengers were refused entry into Canada, US and other countries

Question 18

Fascism

Answer 18

Right wing government and social organization

Question 19

Radios

Answer 19

Radios served as a strong propaganda tool for the Germans

Question 20

Concentration camps

Answer 20

Anyone Hitler didn’t see to be part of his master race, these were crowded camps
- many people were killed

Question 21

Pure German laws

Answer 21

Created in Nuremberg

Identified the pure German race

Question 22

Munich Agreement

Answer 22

Hitler. Said that he would stop taking over countries

Question 23

Louis St. Laurent

Answer 23

Became prime minister after being the minister of Justice after the war ended
Helped create NATO

Question 24

Mackenzie king

Answer 24

- created conscription through a plebiscite | - also created welfare

Question 25

Corvette

Answer 25

A group of convoys, could travel | Across the ocean in 10days

Question 26

British Common wealth air training program

Answer 26

Canada hosted this | - provided 48 squadrons

Question 27

Japanese Canadians

Answer 27

- sent to internment camps - homes and stuff was sold at auction to highest bidder - nothing was there when they returned

Question 28

Where did British children go during the blitz

Answer 28

- they were sent away in order to avoid air raids | - civilians were attacked by the German Luftwaffe

Question 29

Pearl harbour

Answer 29

- US military base in Hawaii - Japan attacked it in provoked - US wanted to join the war

Question 30

Plebiscite

Answer 30

A vote by the electorate determine public opinion on a question of national importance

Question 31

Atomic bomb creation

Answer 31

- US made a road through Canada to Alaska - many Inuit got radiation sickness -

Question 32

Canadian soil

Answer 32

- SS Caribou was shot down | - bombs broke windows

Question 33

Battle of the Atlantic

Answer 33

- build Canadian navy | - the black pot was where there was no air help to protect the convoys

Question 34

D-day

Answer 34

- tricked Germans to location of the battle - paratroops - Canadians landed on Juno beach - after this battle Germany was now fighting a war on three fronts

Question 35

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 35

Attack major Russian Cities - Germany army plan

Question 36

Atomic bomb

Answer 36

Hiroshima | Nagasaki

Question 37

North Africa

Answer 37

Britain invaded North Africa, I order to obtain a. Better vantage point,

Question 38

Who reached German Capitol first

Answer 38

Russia

Question 39

Battle of Dieppe

Answer 39

- Canada's firsts battle - lack of communication - lack of surprise - tanks couldn't handle the rocky beaches - slaughter of Canadians

Question 40

Italian campaign

Answer 40

- Italians surrendered but Germans would not give up Italy - Canadians developed the tactic of "mousing" - eventually Italy surrenderd

Question 41

War brides

Answer 41

Brides that came over with their new returning soldiers as husbands

Question 42

The final solution

Answer 42

The Nazis plan to exterminate the Jewish people

Question 43

The Nuremberg trials

Answer 43

Where concentration camp leaders and other people where put on trial for their contributions to genocide during the war

Question 44

Josef Stalin

Answer 44

Leader of Russia