Transcript Interwar years & WW2

Name that
theatre
Canada’s
Growing
Independence
The Road
to War
Strategies &
Technology
Horrors of
War
The War at
Home
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Final Jeopardy
Category
the War at Sea!
Final Jeopardy
What is sonar; convoy system; more air
cover, corvettes etc.
Name three reasons the tide
started to turn for the Allies in
1942, in the Battle of the
Atlantic
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What is Eastern Europe.
The ‘bloodiest’ theatre:
Stalingrad; scorched earth;
Operation Barbarrosa
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What is North Africa/Italy
st
1
The theatre to close;
Desert war; El Alamein.
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What is the Pacific
The last theatre to close; leapfrogging, kamikaze; Midway,
Atomic bombs.
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What is the Atlantic.
The lifeline to Britain; wolf
packs; convoys; sonar.
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What is Western Europe.
Operation Sealion; D-day;
blitzkrieg.
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What is the League of Nations.
Canada joined this
organization right after WW1
and was a member
throughout the 20’s and 30s.
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What is Turkey.
The Chanak Affair resulted
from a violent uprising in this
country.
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What is the Halibut Treaty.
Nothing fishy here: this was
st
our 1 international treaty
signed independently.
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What is a) Balfour Report, b) Statute of
Westminster.
These 2 related documents
gave us control over our
Foreign Policy a) _____1926,
b) ________1931.
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What is the King-Byng Affair
This event raised the question
“Who is more important: the
elected (Canadian!)PM or the
appointed (British)GovGen”?
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Who is Japan?
This country began the 1930s
with a conquest of Manchuria
in China?
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What is Ethiopia.
In 1935, Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini ordered the
invasion of this African
country.
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What is appeasement.
This policy of the late 1930s,
promoted by Britain’s Neville
Chamberlain, is considered a
direct cause of WW2.
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What is Spain.
A civil war in this country,
from 1936-1939, is often
called “A Dress rehearsal for
WW2”.
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What is a) Lebensraum, b) Saar, Rhineland,
Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia,
Poland.
Name a) the German Nazi
policy, which means “living
space” and b) any 3
territories/countries Hitler
conquered because of it.
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What is Blitzkrieg.
Nicknamed “Lightning War”,
this strategy involved as swift
combo of planes, tanks, and
army.
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What are Wolf Packs.
Used by the German’s in the
Atlantic this strategy was
carried out by U-boats.
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Espionage.
________ is the practice of
spying and code breaking to
gain information from the
opposition.
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What are kamikaze pilots.
Nicknamed “divine wind”
this strategy was carried out
by the Japanese.
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What are a) Sonar, and b) Radar.
These 2 detection devices
proved valuable to Allied
victory.
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What is London England.
This Allied city was bombed
for 57 nights during the ‘blitz’
and again by V2 rockets in
1945.
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What is 6 million.
The approximate number of
Jewish people killed during
the Holocaust.
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What is the Japanese
Which nation treated their
prisoners of war the worst?.
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What is homes taken, property seized,
evacuated to interior, internment camps,
“repatriated”, citizenship revoked
Identify 3 things done to
Canadian Japanese enemy
aliens.
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What is Atomic Bombs a) Hiroshimo b)
Nagasaki
What happened on a) Aug 6
and again b) Aug 9, 1945?.
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What is conscription.
Compulsory military service
is also called this.
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Who are Canadian women.
Which group of Canadians
gained respect and rights
during the War?
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Who are Zombies.
Canadians protecting the
home front were nicknamed
this.
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What is to prove their independence from
Britian.
Why did Canada enter the
War a week after Britain?
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What is the War Measures Act.
This policy gave the
government complete control
and emergency powers during
the War.
The Jeopardy
Champion!