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World War II Package
This period describes the causes of the Second World War, by building upon your
understanding of the influence of the Great Depression on the growth of totalitarian
regimes, as well as the characteristics of totalitarian and democratic systems. You will
follow the war from the Appeasement Crisis at Munich to its conclusion in Tokyo
Harbour, and examine how a number of major developments of this period had a lasting
impact on events for the remainder of the century. Most importantly you will examine
how Canadians contributed to these events and how it has shaped our identity today.
Key Point Notes
Allies
1.) Franklin D. Roosevelt - U.S.A.
2.) Winston Churchill - England
3.) Joseph Stalin - Soviet Union
4.) William L. Mackenzie King - Canada
Axis
5.) Adolf Hitler - Nazi Germany
6.) Bennito Mussolini - Italy
7.) Emperor Hirohito - Japan
Events
Interwar period, Appeasement and the Rise of Dictators
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Hitler proclaims the Germans to be a "Master Race" destined to rule over
"sub humans."
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Mein Kampf - My Struggle.
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Germany begins empire building: takes over Rhineland (1936), Austria,
parts of Czechoslovakia (1938).
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Germany / Russia sign Non-Aggression Pact.
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Munich Agreement (Appeasement).
World War II Begins
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Sept.1,1939 Germany invades Poland
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England and France declare war on Germany (Sept.
3 1939)
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Canada declares war on Germany. (Sept. 10, 1939)
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Blitzkrieg (lightning war) – highly mobile form of mechanized warfare
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Germany quickly conquers Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland
and France (1940).
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Evacuation of Allies at Dunkirk
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Phony War - period of military rearmament – no major offensives
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Battle of Britain, Germany attacks England by air.
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German victories continue in Greece, Yugoslavia and North Africa
(1940/41).
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Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia
(June22,1941).
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Japanese attack American base at Pearl Harbour (Dec.7, 1941). U.S.
declares war on Japan.
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Americans and Japanese begin series of air/sea battles
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Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and American power dominates.
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Dieppe, Canada's disastrous raid (1942).
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Germans defeated in North Africa (1942) – Operation Torch
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The massive bombing of Germany begins.
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Germans defeated at Stalingrad (1943), the beginning of the end for
Hitler's Reich.
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The Holocaust/Concentration Camps.
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Allies invade Italy(1943).
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Allies invade Nazi controlled France at Normandy D-Day (June 6,1944)
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Battle of Kursk on Russian Front (1944), largest tank battle of the war.
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Germany's Empire collapsing, fighting on many fronts.
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Americans defeat Japanese held islands Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1945).
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Island hopping campaign.
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Hitler commits suicide (April 1945)
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Russian and Allied troops meet in Germany and the war in Europe is over.
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Americans drop Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Aug. 1945).
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Japan Surrenders- World War II is over.
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Tension between Russia and the U.S. grows after the war as the Russians
refuse to give up control of large parts of Eastern Europe that they taken
from the Nazis. This period became known as the Cold War.
Terms, Places and Events of WW2:
1.) Fascism
2.) Mein Kampf
3.) Nazi
4.) Appeasement
5.) Munich Agreement
6.) Nazi-Soviet Anti Aggression
Pact
7.) Blitzkrieg
8.) The Axis
9.) War Measures Act
10.) Lend-lease
11.) St. Louis
12.) Holocaust
13.) Japanese Internment
14.) Manhattan Project
15.) Permanent Joint Board on
Defense
16.) RCAF
17.) United Nations
18.) Conscription Crisis
19.) Dunkirk
20.) Dieppe
21.) Battle of Britain
22.) Battle of the Atlantic
23.) Operation Barbarossa
24.) Battle of Stalingrad
25.) Kursk
26.) Pearl Harbor
27.) Battle of Coral Sea
28.) Battle of Midway
29.) Island Hopping Campaign
30.) Ortona
31.) D Day
32.) Normandy
33.) Juno Beach
34.) Omaha Beach
35.) Carpiquet
36.) Caen
37.) Falaise
38.) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
39.) Cold War
People from the era:
1.) W.L. Mackenzie King
2.) Franklin Roosevelt
3.) Winston Churchill
4.) Neville Chamberlin
5.) Dwight D. Eisenhower
6.) Harry Truman
7.) Joseph Stalin
8.) Harry Crerar
9.) Guy Simonds
10.) David Currie
11.) Adolf Hitler
12.) Benito Mussolini
13.) Emperor Hirohito
14.) Bernard Montgomery
15.) C.D. Howe
16.) The Bren Girl
17.) Rosie the Riveter
Questions from Counterpoints Text
1. Appeasement Read p.90-98 #1-5
2. Canada’s Response to growing tension - p.99 #1-4 7, 8
3. Invasion of Poland to Dunkirk - Read 100–105 #1-4
4. Hong Kong and Dieppe - 106 -110 #1-3
5. Battle of Atlantic and technology - read 111 – 115 #1-4
6. Ortona - read 115 – 122 #1,2,4
7. D-day - Read 122-125 p.#1-3
8. Conscription - p.127 #1-3
9. Holocaust - p.129 #1-8