WW2

Allied forces almost defeated by Germans

HItler unsure to finish attack

Civilians gathered boats, saved many troops

S= Troops dying may lead Germany invading Britain

140,000 German troops along English Channel

Hitler sent Luftwaffe for air control

Allied countries send pilots, aircraft personnel

Germany bombed London, Britain retaliated bombing Berlin

Hitler could not wipe out Britain

He broke non-aggression pact

Hitler underestimated the power of Soviet military

Soviets would push Germans back

Allies wanted to test new equipment

Allied ships encountered a German convoy

Landing sites poorly planned

907 Canadian troops killed, 1946 captured

S= Allies received important knowledge used in D-day

New Italian government surrendered to Allies

German army took over Italy

Canadian army's mission, capture Ortona

Battled northward almost 4 months, street-by-street fighting

Germany controlled most of Europe

Britain need supplies from Canada

German U-boats hunted Allied ships

Crews better trained, more experience in 1943

U-boats sunk, ships got to Britain

Germany lost money, land, military power

France, Britain wanted to weaken Germany

This angered Germany, seeked revenge

S= Punishments to Germany major reason for revenge

Japan grew their military, became powerful force

Japan invaded Manchuria for resources

Germany rebuilt their army, ignoring ToV

LoN tested during 1930s

Italy invaded Ethiopia for land

Japan invaded Manchuria

LoN gave no aid both occasions

Hitler, Mussolini hungry for power

They influenced their people

Hitler spread hate about non-Germans

Aryan race considered superior by Hitler

Japanese people lost property, rights

Japanese males 18-45 sent to camps, forced work

Japanese schools, businesses sold for little

Other Japanese people forced to move

Japanese Canadians banned from Vancouver until 1949

Germans blamed Jews for WW1 defeat

Nuremberg Laws took rights from Jews

Jews sent to ghettos, little food, disease

"Final Solution": systematic killing of Jews

S= Most horrific genocide in history

Secretive mission, took years to plan

Happened in Normandy, Germans though Calais

Canada split 5 sections with US, Britain

Germans given false information

Props, tents used to trick German pilots

S= War over in Europe, only Japan left

America sends 2 bombs to Japan

105,000 people died, 128,000 injured

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan Surrenders

After D-day German troops retreated

Countries liberated from Germans

European nations suffered severe damage

Women partook in "men'" duties

Women did clerical duties, packed parachutes, more

Men released overseas sooner due to WAC

S= Views changed of women's role in society

Women more involved in workforce

Worked in munition factories, built planes

Women started to work in "unfeminine" jobs

Women felt confident in new roles

People felt uneasy about changing world

Women with "male" jobs labelled aggressive, unreliable

Women with "male" jobs usually resented

Permitted limited conscription of Canadian men

Men trained to defend Canada

Would not have to fight overseas

W.L.M.K promised no mandatory conscription

Plebiscite decided to have conscription or not

Results even between English, French Canadians

W.L.M.K tried implementing conscription without having conscription

S= Divided Canada during world war

Poland refuses to give Polish Corridor

Germany invades using Blitzkrieg strategy

Poland fell quickly, no time to recover

S= Invasion caused Britain, France to declare war

German troops marched into Rhineland

ToV forbid Germany going into Rhineland

Germany was not stopped

Hitler ordered Sudetenland be returned to Germany

Britain, France met with Hitler

Germany receivers Sudetenland

Pact believed to save world from war

Germany annexes Austria without a fight

Britain, France signed policy of appeasement

countries wanted to avoid world war