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THIS event sparked the building tensions within Europe and through a chain reaction exemplified by a political cartoon known as the Chain of Friendship, and ultimately led to WW1.
Expected: What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What WWII technology led to the arms race of the Cold War?
(Answer: The atomic bomb)
Clue: The 1945 spy defection in Ottawa that exposed Soviet espionage and helped signal Cold War tension in Canada.
Expected: What was the Gouzenko Affair?
This form of media was used to encourage enlistment and rationing in Canada.
(What is propaganda?)
Clue: This HTC term means that some features remain similar over time even while others change.
Expected: What is continuity?
Clue: THIS 1914 battle effectively marks the failure of the Schleiffen plan and beginning of a fighting style characteristic of the remainder of the war.
Expected: What was the Battle of the Marne?
Clue: The military strategy of surrounding an enemy so they are cut off from supply, retreat, and reinforcement.
Expected: What is encirclement?
Clue: The term for the ideological and political division between the Soviet bloc and the West.
Expected: What was the Cold War / Iron Curtain?
The site of the 1940 evacuation of 338,000 Allied troops from France?
(Answer: Dunkirk)
Clue: A cartoon showing Hitler stepping over democratic leaders can be connected to __________ and the rise of Nazi aggression.
Expected: appeasement
This WW1 technological advancement made it nearly impossible for soldiers to advance across no man’s land in the light of day.
(What is the machine gun?)
This German tactic combined fast-moving tanks, planes, and infantry to surprise and overwhelm enemies early in WWII.
Answer: What is Blitzkrieg?
Clue: The Canada-U.S. defence partnership created to monitor and defend North American airspace.
Expected: What is NORAD?
The D-day beach assigned to Canadian troops.
Question: What is Juno Beach?
Clue: The international organization promoted after WWI to reduce future conflict, though it had limited power.
Expected: What was the League of Nations?
THIS treaty, formalized at the _____ Peace Conference, ended WWI but laid the groundwork for WWII.
(Answer: The Treaty of Versailles)
Paris
Clue: The missile debate that raised questions about nuclear weapons, Canadian sovereignty, and Cold War defence.
Expected: What was the Bomarc missile crisis?
Answer: This wartime policy removed Japanese Canadians from their homes, took away property, and confined them in supervised camps.
Question: What is the internment of Japanese Canadians?
Infamous trials and laws found root in this german city. The trials sought some semblance of justice for the holocaust while the laws did what?
Nuremberg, took away right from jewish people
Britain honoured an agreement with THIS nation, even though it wasn't a member of the Triple ______ putting significant strain on THIS German plan..
Belgium
Entente
Schleiffen Plan
Clue: This term _____ war has two meanings relevant to war time, they are?
Expected: total, targets beyond military assets and when a society reorients themselves to support the war effort, through industry and rationing.
Answer: This alliance was formed as a mutual defence organization against the Soviet threat and was later mirrored by the Warsaw Pact.
Question: What is NATO?
Answer: What is the most commonly sited reason for the use of the atom bomb?
This city was hit by the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.
This city was hit by the second atomic bomb on August 9, 1945.
Question: Saved lives in total
Question: What is Hiroshima?
Question: What is Nagasaki?
Clue: Why the Holocaust is often taught as a process rather than a single event.
Expected: Because it happened over many years through the stages of isolation, discrimination and removal of rights, gatherig in ghettos, then transport to concentration camps where they were murdered at scale.