WW2

Question 1

Appeasement

Answer 1

Giving in to pressure to avoid another war (Allies appeased Hitler with land to try and avoid another war)

Question 2

SS St. Louis

Answer 2

A boat filled with 900+ Jews that came to Canada to escape the Nazi’s was turned away and sent back to Germany, most of the Jews on board were killed

Question 3

Britain/The Blitz

Answer 3

German air raid over Britain where they were defeated by the RAF (many CAD pilots)

Question 4

D-Day

Answer 4

The Allied landing in Normandy, France. Canada after landing on Juno Beach, eventually liberated the Netherlands.

Question 5

Dieppe

Answer 5

A failed Allied attack where the Allied countries wanted to test out German defences

Question 6

Dunkirk

Answer 6

Dunkirk, France where hundreds of thousands of British and French troops were stuck and saved by British civilians in their own boats.

Question 7

Hong Kong

Answer 7

Canada’s first action in the war. Terrible defeat by Japanese and thousands of POWs taken in.

Question 8

Ortona

Answer 8

Canadian troops fought Italian and German troops by “mouse-holing”.

Question 9

WLMK

Answer 9

Longest serving Canadian PM, PM during WW2

Question 10

Conscription Crisis

Answer 10

Again, similar to WW1, French Canadians were against conscription