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Question 1 - 10

• First territory that Hitler remilitarized

Answer 1 – 10

• Rhineland

Question 1 - 20

• Conference in 1938• British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

declared, “I have achieved peace for out time”

Answer 1 – 20

• Munich Conference

Question 1 - 30

• Invasion of this country started WWII

Answer 1 – 30

• Poland

Question 1 - 40

• Policy defined as, “Smaller concessions given to avoid a larger conflict”

Answer 1 – 40

• Appeasement

Question 1 - 50

• Identify at least 2 countries that were totalitarian during the interwar period and their leader

Answer 1 – 50 Country Leader

Spain Franco

Italy Mussolini

Japan Hirohito

USSR Stalin

Germany Hitler

Question 2 - 10

• Known as “lightening” warfare• Hitler was able to take territories quickly at

the beginning of WWII• Luftwaffe and mobilized infantry

Answer 2 – 10

• Blitzkrieg

Question 2 - 20

• 340 000 Allied soldiers evacuated• Operation Dynamo• Mosquito Armada – citizens with pleasure

crafts crossed English Channel to transport Allied soldiers

Answer 2 – 20

• Evacuation at Dunkirk

Question 2 - 30

• When this country lost to Germany, Canada became the most important Ally to the British

Answer 2 – 30

• Fall of France (1940)

Question 2 - 40

• Operation Sea Lion• To prepare for an amphibious invasion, Hitler

first had to control the skies

Answer 2 – 40

• Battle of Britain

Question 2 - 50

• Hitler invaded USSR• Operation Barbarossa• Identify the new “teams” for WWII

Answer 2 – 50

• Italy and Germany• Canada, Britain, USSR

Question 3 - 10

• Surprise attack on USA by Japanese

Answer 3 – 10

• Pearl Harbour

Question 3 - 20

• Christmas 1941• 1900 ill-prepared Canadian soldiers were

attacked, all were killed, injured or taken as prisoners for the rest of the war

Answer 3 – 20

• Battle of Hong Kong

Question 3 - 30

• First attempt of the Allies to establish a “European foothold”

• Failure

Answer 3 – 30

• Dieppe

Question 3 - 40

• Identify one reason why Dieppe was a failure

Answer 3 – 40

• Delayed• Poor communication• Met German convoy• Lost element of surprise• Tanks could not get traction on pebbly beach• More troops sent even though first ones not

able to secure beach

Question 3 - 50

• Considered by British Prime Minister Churchill to be, “Soft-underbelly of Europe”

• Italian Campaign• Describe the fighting

Answer 3 – 50

• Battle of Ortona• Troops fighting in urban areas• “Rubble-filled streets”

Question 4 - 10

• June 6, 1944• Beaches of Normandy, France

Answer 4 – 10

• D-Day

Question 4 - 20

• Name the beach Canadians secured at D-Day

Answer 4 – 20

• Juno Beach

Question 4 - 30

• Country liberated by Canadians• Many citizens starved during the occupation

Answer 4 – 30

• Liberation of the Netherlands

Question 4 - 40

• Cities in Japan where bombs were dropped to end WWII

Answer 4 – 40

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 4 - 50

• Names given to the atom bombs

Answer 4 – 50

• Fat Man and Little Boy

Question 5 - 10

• Canadian military disasters in WWII

Answer 5 – 10

• Dieppe• Hong Kong

Question 5 - 20

• Manufactured and used by the Canadians on the Atlantic during WWII

Answer 5 – 20

• Corvette

Question 5 - 30

• New defensive technology used in the Battle of Britain

Answer 5 – 30

• Radar

Question 5 - 40

• List of new technology used in WWII

Answer 5 – 40

• V2 Rocket• Atom Bombs• Enigma• Jet-propelled airplanes• Penicillin• Submarines (both Allies and Axis)

Question 5 - 50

• Name given to secret project used to make atom bomb

Answer 5 – 50

• Manhattan Project