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1.By the end of WWII, how many Canadians served in this war? | more than 1000000
| 1a.How many died? | 42042
| 2.What proved to be Hitler’s first major mistake? | ordered the Wehrmacht to pull back
| 2a.How did the unpredictability of the weather play a role? | fog kept aircraft on the ground
| 3.What was the miracle of Dunkirk? | 340000 soldiers rescued by boats
| 4.How much of Europe did Hitler control after he took control of France | Poland to Atlantic ocean
| 4a.What was left to prevent a complete Nazi takeover? | Britain and allies
| 5.List 3 reasons why Aboriginal Canadians may have enlisted in WWII. | loyalty, defeat tyranny, paycheque
| 6.For what ethnic group was WWII dramatically different for and why? | Ukrainian Canadians
| 7.What was the theme song for CATS? | We will fight for the might that we know is right And even Mussolini knows that CATS can fight
| 7a.What does the acronym CATS stand for and why was it significant? | Canadian Auxiliary Territorial Service. Women accepted in military service
| 8.How did women’s roles change in WWII? | included in service and trade
| 9.What was the code name for Hitler’s invasion of Britain? | Operation Sea Lion
| 9a.What was the plan? | quick thrust forward
| 10.What did Hitler order on July 10, 1940? | savage air attack on ships in English channel
| 10a.What was the result? | at first very succesful, but Germany failed to seize the English channel
| 11.What did Canadian bombers become “experts” at? | flying blind
| 12.What happened on July 24, 27 and August 3, 1943? | 3 bombings in Germany
| 13.What was Operation Barbarossa? | Hitler's surprise attack on the Soviet Union
| 14.What tactic did Japan use to allow them to plan an attack on Pearl Harbor? | let allies think they were considering peace but planning attacks
| 15.How long did the attack on Pearl Harbor last? | less than 2 hours
| 16.Why did the Canadians at Honk Kong never have a chance? | needed training, and physically not ready
| 17.Briefly describe the Battle of Dieppe. | intended to draw Germans away from Russia, very few made it to Dieppe, 1000 dead, 2000 captured, 500 wounded
| 18.Describe the Italian campaign and how much ground the Allies gained by the fall of 1943. | summer 1943, moving up Italian peninsula, Mussolini deposed, Germans rescue, Mussolini executed 650 km
| 19.During the Normandy invasion, “Funnies” were built. What were they? | Sherman tank go through water, obstacles, mines etc
| 20.When did D Day begin? | June 6, 1944
| 21.Who met in February 1945 in Yalta? What were they discussing? | main leaders of Allied forces, lay foundations for post war Europe
| 22.In April of 1945, as Soviet troops picked through the rubble in Berlin, what did they discover? | Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide
| 23.Why do Dutch school children travel annually to the Canadian cemeteries in the Netherlands? | to honour the soldiers that liberated the Netherlands
| 24.What is anti-Semitism? | hatred of Jews
| 25.What was discussed and decided at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942? | SS officials worked on "Jewish problem" to murder 11 million Jews
| 26.What was slave labour known as? | productive annihilation
| 27.In Auschwitz, how many people could be gassed at one time? | 2000
| 28.How did the Nazis destroy the Warsaw resistance? | systematically blowing up houses
| 29.What did the allies discover when they arrived at the concentration camps that became known as the Holocaust? | corpses, mass graves, survivors like skeletons
| 30.What is a kamikaze attack? | aircraft flown into US warships, killing self and many US soldiers
| 31.What did US ‘President Harry Truman believe the atomic bomb could prevent? | force Japan to surrender without invasion, saving half a million American lives
| 32.Provide details about the dropping of the atomic bomb. | Aug 6, 1945, Enola Gay, Hiroshima, Little Boy, 8:15 am, first ever nuclear bomb
| 32a.Why was a second bomb dropped? | asked for peace, no answer from Japan
| 32b.What resulted because of this bomb? | Aug 9, 1945 Fat Man, Nagasaki, 40000 killed, Japan surrendered unconditionally |
