WWII

Question 1

What is mouse-holing?

Answer 1

Mouse-holing is when soldiers would blow up the houses by putting explosives through holes in the house

Question 2

What happened in Blitzkrieg?

Answer 2

Known as the “lightning” battle it was a huge air force attack and attack on communications

Question 3

What happened in Dieppe?

Answer 3

Dieppe was a disastrous test raid for future the future invasion of France. Germany was on high alert and saw it coming. ~5000 Canadians that attacked less than half of that returned. Learned that surprise is everything

Question 4

What was Hong Kong to Canada?

Answer 4

Hong Kong was the first battle that Canadians fought in. Canada was placed there because it was not thought that it would be attacked. John Osborn jumped onto a bomb to save everyone in the trenches

Question 5

What is Plebiscite?

Answer 5

A direct vote on an issue of major national importance. The vote for or against conscription overseas

Question 6

D-Day

Answer 6

The attack was a surprise the Nazi’s because they had been fed wrong information about when and where it was going to be. The allies attacked at low tide and at sunrise. They had massive support from the air and naval. They divided up the beaches so each country had a specific place to attack.

Question 7

Canada’s readiness for WWII

Answer 7

Canada was not ready for the war. Canada was still in a great depression and the governments focus was on getting Canada out of it. Canada did not want to fight in a war that would not affect them

Question 8

Appeasement

Answer 8

Appeasement is trying to avoid war by allowing a country to do something, for example, Mackenzie King was for appeasement and signed a treaty with Hitler not thinking he was a threat

Question 9

Italian Campaign

Answer 9

From July 10th to August 17th the allies fought and took Sicily from the German Army. Code named “Operation Husky” It took pressure off the Russian allies and to pull German troops out of North-Western Europe freeing the area for Operation “Overlord” Canada fought in mountainous terrain

Question 10

John Osborn

Answer 10

John Osborn served in Hong Kong where he jumped onto a grande to save his troop. He was awarded the VC for Valour.

Question 11

Camp X

Answer 11

Camp X was located near Oshawa Ontario. From 1941 to 1946 it was a training camp responsible for training Special Operations Executive of the British Security Coordination. It trained them in techniques of secret warfare and Hydra, which is a network of communicated messages between Canada, US, and Britain

Question 12

Women in WWII

Answer 12

~ 225 000 women worked in munitions factories. In 1941 for the first time in Canadian history women could enlist in the army as naval and air force, they could not apply for combat during WWII but they could do anything else.43 00 women served overseas in the Royal Canadian Air Force

Question 13

Stalingrad

Answer 13

Stalingrad was the biggest battle between Germany and the Soviet Union on July 17, 1942, and it lasted until February 2, 1943. By Autumn of 1943, there were 2.5 million German soldiers that faced 5.5 million Soviet soldiers

Question 14

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 14

On August 23rd, 1939, Stalin and Hitler signed a “Non-Aggression Pact” in which they vowed not to interfere with each other’s business. On June 22nd, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. After getting rid of some of the best officers in his military, Stalin and the Soviets were not prepared for war.

Question 15

Holocaust

Answer 15

The Holocaust was where all Jewish, LGBT+, gypsies, and crippled people were put in work or death camps. They would experiment on them, work them to death, put them in gas chambers, starve them, beat them, make them walk until they died. They were put there because they were not Hitlers idea of the perfect human.

Question 16

Hiroshima-nuclear weapons

Answer 16

The US dropped a atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen to have the atomic bombed dropped on them because of their military and industrial significance and concentrated population. These are the only attacks with nuclear weapons in history

Question 17

War Measures Act

Answer 17

The War Measures Act allows the government to control almost every aspect of Canadians lives, allows the General in the military to control what factories produce

Question 18

Canadian and US relations

Answer 18

Canada and the States are very close, they are our primary trading partner, they have many companies operated in Canada, they protect us with their military, they influence us socially, and are a major factor to our economy, they also influence our political views.

Question 19

Nazism

Answer 19

Nazism is a set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany. It started in the 1920’s. Party gained power in 1933, starting the Third Reich. They lasted in Germany until 1945, at the end of World War II.

Question 20

Impact WWII had on Canada

Answer 20

WWII brought Canada out of the great depression and made the economy boom, it progressed women’s rights immensely, Canada became more industrialized, Canada became closer to the US, Canada had social security

Question 21

Juno Beach

Answer 21

Juno was the beach that Canada fought for on D-Day. 14,000 Canadians parachuted into the invasion area. The Royal Canadian Navy contributed 110 ships and 10,000 sailors in support of the landing while the Royal Canadian Air Force had helped the invasion by bombing targets inland. There were 1074 Canadian casualties including 359 killed

Question 22

Conscription

Answer 22

Mackenzie King had promised at the beginning of the war that no one would be forced to fight overseas, instead he passed the National Resources Mobilization Act in attempt to make both sides happy by just making all adult males register for national service but it did not require them to fight overseas. They then had a plebiscite where most provinces were 80% for conscription and Quebec was 72% against conscription.

Question 23

Dunkirk

Answer 23

Thousands of British troops went across the English Channel to defend France. A group of Canadian soldiers stayed in Britain to defend it from the expected German invasion. Germans took France despite Britain’s effort. France fell in six weeks.

Question 24

Winston Churchill

Answer 24

He was a gifted orator and a strong rallying force for the British and allied cause in WWII.

Question 25

Pearl Harbour

Answer 25

The Japanese attacked a navy base sinking battleships and causing a lot of deaths. They attacked because the US cut off all of their supplies and they knew they needed to cripple the US’ Pacific fleet which was based in Pearl Harbour

Question 26

Final Solution

Answer 26

The final solution was the decision to kill all Jewish people `

Question 27

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 27

These laws allowed the holocaust to happen, they were laws that increasingly controlled the Jews. They had to wear the star of David on all their clothes, not being able to go to school, work, or own a business.

Question 28

BCATP

Answer 28

British Common Wealth Air Training Program, 130,000 air crew were trained in Canada

Question 29

Battle of Britain

Answer 29

RAF/RCAF victory allowed Britain to stay in the war and prevented an invasion.

Question 30

Incendiary Bombs

Answer 30

The bombs would set buildings and cities on fire, they were dropped by allied bombers to set whole cities ablaze in WWII, to ruinous effect.

Question 31

Anti-Semitism

Answer 31

Antisemitism is Racism against Jewish people

Question 32

Total war

Answer 32

Total war occurs when all national resources are devoted towards prosecuting the war effort.

Question 33

Rationing/Price Controls

Answer 33

To ensure there was a large enough supply to meet both military and civilian needs, certain staple goods were rationed.

Question 34

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 34

It was the largest land invasion, it began on June 22nd, 1941. It took two years and the deaths of more than one million civilians.

Question 35

Convoys

Answer 35

Convoys were used by Canada to protect vital supplies from U-boats in the Battle for the Atlantic.

Question 36

Jewish Immigration to Canada Pre-War

Answer 36

Canada accepted only 4,000 Jewish people fleeing Europe because of religion, Anti-Semitism, Depression, Canadian unity, politics

Question 37

Enigma Machine

Answer 37

The enigma machine was an encryption typewriter