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WWII Study Guide
Notes on Canada and WWII
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dictator | A ruler with unrestricted power, without any democratic restrictions |
| Totalitarian State | A dictatorship in which the government uses intimidation,violence, and propaganda to rule all aspects of the social and political life of its citizens. |
| Five-year Plans | Stalin's plans for economic development in the Soviet Union over five years. |
| Fascist | A form of authoritarian government that is totalitarian and nationalistic. |
| Weimar Republic | The democratic government in Germany after the First World War |
| Nazis | Members of the National Socialist Germans Workers' Party;the Nazis were extreme nationalists who took power in 1933 and controlled every aspect of German life through a police state. |
| Kristallnacht | A co-ordinated attack against jewish people and their property carried out by Nazis in Germany on November 9,1938. |
| Persecution | To oppress or ill-treat because of race , religion , gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs |
| Holocaust | The Nazi imprisonment and murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5 million other peoples during the Second World War |
| Policy Of Appeasement | Giving in to an aggressor's demands in the hopes that no more demands will be made. |
| Non-aggression Pact | An agreement between two countries not to attack each other. |
| Isolationism | The policy of remaining apart form the affairs of other countries. |
| Refugee | A person displaced from his or her home and territory by war and other acts of aggression |
| Anti-Semitism | Discrimination or hostility toward Jewish people. |
| Deportation | The act of sending someone back to his or her native land |
| British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) | A program to train pilots and aircrew during the second Woorld war; it produced half of all Commonwealth aircrew and is the largest air training program in history. |
| Wartime Information Board | Board established in 1942 to coordinate wartime propaganda in Canada. |
| Total War | The mobilisation of the entire resources of the nation of the war. |
| Crown Corporations | Businesses and industries owned by the Canadian government. |
| Allies | Countries fighting against Germany during the Second World War , including Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and after 1941, the United States and the U.S.S.R . |
| Axis | Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan. |
| blitzkrieg | German war tactic of surprise attacks by tanks and fighter planes. |
| Dunkirk | Port town of France from which a massive Allied evacuation took place in May 1940, when German force conquered France. |
| Luftwaffe | The German air force. |
| The Blitz | The heavy, frequent bombing attacks on London and other British cities by Nazi Germany |
| Battle of Britain | An air campaign launched in 1940 by the Royal Air Force to stop the Germans from achieving air superiority |
| Operation Barbarossa | Germany's unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941-1942, which broke the non-aggression pact ultimately led to Soviet Union joining the allies. |
| Pearl Harbour | The Japanese bombing of the U.S. naval base in Hawaii. |
| Battle of Hong Kong | Japan's attack on the British colony of Hong Kong in which there were heavy Canadian losses. |
| Black Christmas | December 25,1941 , the date Hong Kong fell to the Japanese. |
| Battle of the Atlantic | The struggle between the Allies and the Axis powers to control the Allies' shipping route across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Corvettes | Small,fast, warships built in Canada to help protect convoys in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Bomber Command | The section of the RAF that directed the strategic bombing of Germany.. |
| Dieppe Raid | The 1942 trial raid by Canadian troops against Germany's occupation of Dieppe; Canada suffered heavy losses |
| Italian Campaign | 1943 Allied battles to recapture Europe from the south , through Sicily and Italy . |
| D-Day | June 6 ,1944, the day allied armies, including Canada, invaded France; the biggest Allied invasion of the Second World War. |
| Paratroopers | Soldiers trained to parachute from airplanes onto combat areas. |
| Juno Beach | The nine-kilometre stretch of beach in France where Canadian troops landed on D-Day. |
| Manhattan Project | The code name given during the Second World War for the American plan to develop the first atomic bomb. |
| Atomic Bomb | A bomb containing radioactive material, capable of destroying an entire city or region. |
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