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100

  • 100 Points: 1939 was the year what major event began?

  • WW2

100

  • 100 Points: Being a war bride implies what about your significant other?

  •  That your partner was a foreign soldier

100

  • 100 Points: What legal Act allowed the relocation of Japanese Canadians during WWII?

  • Answer: The War Measures Act.

100

  • 100 Points: What does VJ Day stand for? 

  • Victory over Japan day

100
  • 100 Points: What significant attack by Japan occurred on December 7, 1941?


  • Answer: The attack on Pearl Harbor.
200

  • 200 Points: How many Canadian women were actively recruited into war industries and auxiliary military services?

  • Answer: 261,000 women.

200

  • 200 Points: In what year did Japanese Canadians regain the freedom to live anywhere in Canada?

  • Answer: 1949.

200

  • 200 Points: Who was Harry Crerar?

  • Answer: A celebrated general who survived the war and returned to Canada

200

200 points: How many countries were at war with Japan at the time of its surrender?

  • Answer: 50

300

  • 300 Points: By the end of World War II, Canada built the world’s third-largest navy and what rank air force?

  • Answer: Fourth largest.

300

  • 300 Points: What Canadian initiative encouraged public support for the war through investments?

  • Answer: The sale of Victory bonds.

300

  • 300 Points: During World War II, Japanese Canadians were forcibly relocated from which region of Canada?

  • Answer: predominantly the Pacific Coast (primarily British Columbia).

300

  • 300 Points: Kurt ____, a German general tried for war crimes in Canada, was convicted of ordering what specific atrocity during World War II?

    DAILY DOUBLE

  • Answer: Meyer. The murder of Canadian prisoners of war.

300

300 Points: What was the nickname for the period between September 1939 and April 1940?

Answer: The "Phony War."

400

  • 400 Points: What phrase did Prime Minister King famously use to address conscription during WWII?

  • Answer: "Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription."

400

  • 400 Points: How many First Nations soldiers enlisted in the Canadian military during WWII?

  • Answer: At least 3,090 soldiers.

400

  • 400 Points: Which Canadian Prime Minister issued an apology for the internment of Japanese Canadians in 1988?

  • Answer: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

400

  • 400 Points: What did the Gouzenko Affair reveal? When did it happen?

    DAILY DOUBLE

  • Answer: Soviet spy infiltration, 1945.

400

  • 400 Points: What's Canadian Tommy Prince know for? 

  • Answer: One of the most decorated WW2 soldiers, who happens to be an Indigenous Canadian.

500

500 Points:What was the main feature of the National Resources Mobilization Act?

brought back conscription for home defense during WWII.

500

500 Points: What did Special Training School 103 do during the war? Where was it?

Train secret agents

Whitby, Ontario

500

500 Points: The internment and relocation of Japanese Canadians is known as the largest ______ ________ in Canadian history. Totalling ___________ individuals.

Answer: mass, movement, 23,000

500

Canada was one of only six nations to achieve what distinction within the United Nations after the war?

Answer: Canada served on all 10 special agencies of the UN.

500

500 Points: During the Battle of Hong Kong, 1,500 Canadian soldiers were taken prisoner. What was the fate of many of these prisoners over the next four years?

Many died of mistreatment, neglect, or severe conditions in Japanese prison camps, while hundreds more were on the brink of death when liberated.