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Dieppe Raid
Allied raid on the French Channel coast on August 19, 1942; designed to increase German fears of an attack in the west and force them to divert resources away from other theaters of war; resulted in the deaths of 907 Canadians and 1856 Canadian prisoners of war
D-Day
Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944
"Hunger winter"
The famine in the Netherlands during the winter of 1944-45
Quebecois
A French-speaking native or inhabitant of Quebec
Vichy France
The puppet government of France after Germany defeated and occupied it in 1940
Conscription
compulsory military service
Ogdensburg Agreement
1940 meeting between FDR and Mackenzie King; established the Permanent Joint Board on Defense
Hyde Park Declaration
1941 agreement between FDR and Mackenzie King that Canada would provide the US with $200 - $300 million of war material in suprort of the Lend-Lease program
Mackenzie King
Canadian Prime Minister during WWII
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States; Democrat; led the US through the Great Depression and WWII
Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister during WWII
Marshal Petain
Leader of Vichy France
Charles de Gualle
Leader of the Free French during WWII
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