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Winston Churchill

Leaders

Mussolini

Italy's leader

Fascist

Intense nationalism and to be in control

Joseph Stalin

Communist

Political, economical, and social system that has "classless" citizens

Soviet Union's leader

Adolf Hitler

Nazi

Extremely fascist, nationalist, and wanted all control

National Socialist German Workers Party

Swastika

Nazi Party's symbol

Germany's leader

Blitzkreig

A military tactic. Germans used tanks and aircraft to quickly attack the Allies. Germans tried the Blitzkrieg in Poland in Spring of 1940.

Isolationism

National policy avoiding being tangled up between countries

League of Nations

An organisation to keep peace during WWII

Axis

Germany, Japan, Italy

Allies

Britain, Soviet Union, China, United States

Nazi-Soviet Pact

An agreement signed by the USSR and Nazi Germany. Agreement was to not fight each other.

Appeasment

The Allies give out policy in order to prevent the war

This was a failure

Munich Agreement

An agreement signed by Germany, Italy, Britain, and France to declare that Germany would take over Western Czechoslovakia.

Signed September 1938

Treaty of Versailles

A treaty with a bunch of rules signed by the Allied powers and Germany to end World War I

Hitler disobeyed

Bombing

Manhattan project

Secret name of America creating nuclear bomb

By July 1945, America had already built 3 atomic bombs

When Germany surrendered, Japan did not. All the Allies wanted the war to end and discussed how to get Japan to surrender

Atomic bombs

Hiroshima

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, city in Japan

Atomic bomb was called "Little boy"

Nagasaki

On August 9, 1945, the US dropped another bomb on Nagasaki

The atomic bomb was called "Fat boy"

VE Day

Victory in Europe

A day to celebrate Germany's surrender on May 8

VJ Day

Victory over Japan

A day celebrated on August 15 in the UK because of Japan's surrender

Subtopic

Conscription Crisis

King held a vote for conscription: All provinces said yes except Quebec

Riots in Quebec began in order to protest

Japanese Aggression

Japan started taking territories under its power

Parts of China were taken over

Territories of the Soviet Union were taken over

Battle of Stalingrad

Where Germany, Italy, and Japan fought the Soviet Union for the control of Stalingrad, Russia.

Evacuation of Dunkirk

Evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, northern France. In May-June 1940

Battle of Britain

July 10, 1940, Military campaign where RAF (Royal air force) defended Britain against Nazi’s air force attacks

Pearl Harbour

December 7, 1941 Japan unexpectedly attacked and bombed a naval base in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. US enters the war after

Battle of Hong Kong

Japan attacks Hong Kong for 17 days until China surrenders on Christmas. 2,000 Canadians troops join, many never even shot a rifle

Japanese Internment

Japanese-Canadians were thrown into internment camps because the government thought they were spies helping out Japan

Total War

Canadian government controls the economy.

Limits resources like food and water

Dieppe

During the Second World War, the Allies launched a major raid on the German-owned beach off the coast of France.
Raid was a failure.

Italian Campaign

Italy and the allies fought so that the allies could defeat the Axis powers. The battle took place in San Marino, Italy. From July 1943-May 1945.

D-Day

June 6, 1944, Allies invaded Normandy, France.
Allies used empty tents, dummy boats, inflated rubber tanks to trick German soldiers into thinking that the Allies would arrive at Calais Used lesson learned from Dieppe raid: Germans can defend their own ports so there were 2 new harbours built in Britain

Camp X

The name of a secret training school in Ontario

Mackenzie King

Prime Minister of Canada during WWII

CD Howe

Mackenzie King's Cabinet

Nazi Education

When Hitler became leader of Nazi Germany, he instantly changed the school curriculum. He made it so that children were learning what the best race and look was and what was the worst, being people of non-Aryan race.

Were taught to worship Adolf Hitler

In 1933, all Jewish teachers were fired

Holocaust

Burn by fire

Massive killings of Jews and people of non-Aryan race

Final solution

Nazi's decided to put the people in concentration camps into death camps

S.S. St. Louis

On May 7, 1939, 900+ Jews were on route to Havana, Cuba but only 29 Jews were accepted in. The rest were sent to America, where they waited for months to see if they would get accepted or not. At the end of the Holocaust, 254 of them were dead.

Stages of isolation

1. Stripping of rights

2. Segregation

3. Concentration camps

4. Death camps

5. Aftermath

Rape of Nanking

Mass killings of Chinese civilians by the Japanese. Went on from December 1937-January 1938

Nuremberg Laws

In Nuremberg in 1935, Nazi Germany released new laws that stripped rights away from Jews

Nazi Propaganda

Used propaganda to convince the citizens of Germany that they were right and they should be worshipped

Anti-Semitism in Canada

A priest in Quebec said he was against Jews seeking refuge in Canada on the radio

In 1933, Nazi supporters held up a flag of the swastika in Christie Pits Park, Toronto during a baseball game

Scared that Nazism would become a problem, Prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King denied thousands of Jews seeking refuge.

In 1940, Jews and Germans were put into internment camps in Quebec and New Brunswick