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Chapter 5 Timeline
Canada and WWII
Question | Answer |
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Germany invades Poland | Sept 1,1939 |
Britain and France declare war on Germany | Sept 3,1939 |
Canada declares war on Germany | Sept 10,1939 |
Germany invades Denmark and Norway | April,1940 |
Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France | May,1940 |
Evacuation of Dunkrik | May~June,1940 |
National Resource Mobilization Act allows conscription of Canadians for home defence | June,1940 |
France surrenders to Hitler | June 22,1940 |
German air Force begins bombing Britain (the Battle of Britain) | July,1940 |
Battle of Atlantic | 1940~1944 |
Germany invades USSR | June 22,1941 |
Japan bombs Pearl Harbour | Dec 7,1941 |
US declares war on Japan | Dec 8,1941 |
Canadian soldiers defeated in Japan's invasion of HK | Dec 25,1941 |
Japanese-Canadians sent to internment camps | Feb, 1942 |
Canadians vote in plebiscite to support conscription | April,1942 |
Raid on French port of Dieppe by Canadian and other Allied forces | August,1942 |
Allies bomb German cities | 1943~1945 |
Canadian troops participate in invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy | July,1943 |
Canadians win battle or Ortona, Italy | Dec,1943 |
D-Day | June 6,1944 |
Canadian troops help liberate the Netherlands form German military control | Spring,1945 |
Germany surrenders | May 7,1945 |
US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima | Aug 6,1945 |
US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki | Aug 9,1945 |
Japan surrenders | August 15,1945 |