Transcript 1000 - terryfoxSS11

Name that
theatre
Famous
Battles
Famous
People
Strategies
Horrors of
War
The War at
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Final Jeopardy
Category
the War at Sea!
Final Jeopardy
What is sonar; convoy system; .
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:
blitzkrieg; scorched earth;
operation barbarrosa
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What is North Africa/Italy
st
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The theatre to close;
Desert war; El Alamein.
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What is the Pacific
The last theatre to close; leapfrogging, kamikaze; Midway.
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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 Pearl Harbour.
The Japanese attack on this
military base that brought
America into WWII.
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What is the Dieppe Raid.
This was a disastrous raid on
a French port that resulted in
very high Canadian
casualties.
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What is Battle of Stalingrad.
This battle was the major
turning point for the war on
the Eastern Front.
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What is D-day.
The Allied Invasion of
Western Europe that involved
American, British and
Canadian forces.
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What is Operation Dynamo
The official name of the
British rescue mission
nicknamed the “Dunkirk
Miracle” .
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Who is William Lyon Mackenzie-King?
This man was Prime Minister
of Canada during the Second
World War?
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Who are Japanese-Canadians.
This group of British
Columbians were sent to
internment camps in 1942.
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Who is General Dwight Eisenhower.
Which famous American
General thought the bombing
of Japan was unncessary?
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Who are Jewish, Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, Homosexuals,
Disabled persons.
Identify 3 groups of people
who were targeted by
Hitler’s “Final Solution.”
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Who is Hirohito.
This man was the Emperor of
Japan during the Second
World War.
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What is Blitzkrieg.
Nicknamed “Lightening
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 of the
opposition.
Explain espionage.
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What are kamikaze pilots.
Nicknamed “divine wind”
this strategy was carried out
by the Japanese.
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Retreating forces would burn crops, farms,
factories or anything that would support the
opposition as they moved into the territory.
Describe the practice of
Scorched Earth.
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What is London England.
This Allied city was bombed
for 57 nights during the
‘blitz’.
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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!