History WW1 and WW2

War of the Pacific

Sep 2, 1945

Final stage in which the Japanese surrendered to allied forces, marking the end of WW2

2 bombs dropped

Japan against the Soviets

Battle of Atlantic

Longest continuous military campaign in WW2

Sep 3, 1939-May 1945

The taking of cargo

Mussolini

Created Ideology and Fascism

Ruled 1922-1243

Italian Politician and Journalist

Executed by Italians Partisans

Winston Churchill

Operation Dynamo Leader

Prime Minister of Britain May 10, 1940

Adolf Hitler was scared of him after he to victory against his people

Hitler and the HJ

The Enabling Act

Banned opposing political parties

HJ made to prepare young German boys to fight in the military

Raise children with Nazi Ideology

Japanese Canadians

Living West Coast of BC called enemy aliens

Sent to POW’s Internment Camps

Forced Labor

Not Killed

Holocaust

Extreme anti-Semitism

Concentration Camps

Kristallnacht

Gas Vans

Nuremburg Laws

Main Causes of WW2

Treaty of Versailles

Great Depression

Nazi Party

League of Nations

Juno Beach

D-Day Invasion

June 6, 1944

Normandy France

Led by Canadians

Auschwitz - Birkenau, Holocaust

6 million Jewish killed

Place for murder selections

A death camp

Worst of the camps

2 Cities Bombed

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Pearl harbor

A suprise mission

Dec 7, 1941

Due to Oil Embargo

Rationing

Ration Books

The double currency

Main goods, gasoline

Economy and Rationing

Wage Freezes

Wartime Prices

Price Ceilings

What Happened August 19th 1942

Dieppe Raid

Role of Corvettes

Cheap fast

Escorted vessels

Defended British from German U-Boats

Euphemisms

Turning a mild term into a considered harsh and offensive word

D-Day

Operation Overlord

Taking France back from Hitler

150,000 British soldiers

Normandy France

Juno Beach

Canadas Declaration of War

Sep 10, 1939

Decided to attack Nazi independently

Waited a week before attacking

VE Day

May 8, 1945

Victory in Europe Day

Hitler Nazi Party

Top public speaker in 1921

June 1932 Largest Party