Vocabulary
Foster parents
Who are grown ups who take care of children temporarily?
Kristi Yamaguchi
What is the name of a famous figure skater born with a club foot?
Over a million
What is the number of children evacuated from towns and cities to the countryside during WWII?
The Isle of Man
What is the name of an island of the coast of England that has stubby-tailed cats and that housed thousands of detained "enemy aliens" during WWII?
Girl Guides and Boy Scouts
What was the name of the teenaged helpers who acted as messengers and fire watchers?
Dogfights
What are fights between two airplanes, in the sky?
King Tut
Who was a famous boy pharaoh who had a club foot, a cleft palate, a broken knee at death, and malaria at death?
Spain, Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia
What were four other countries that sent children to safety in the British countryside?
London
Where did most of the evacuated children come from?
What is the capital of England?
Ration coupons
What were the pieces of paper, used along with money, that allowed people to buy they things they wanted to buy?
Internment
What is a system of detaining or removing "dangerous" people?
Surgery
What used to be the only way to fix a club foot?
9/1/1939
On what date did the first wave of evacuations begin?
Poland
What was the first country Hitler attacked?
VE Day
What was 5/8/1945, the day of victory for The Allies in Europe?
The Blitz
What was the name of the giant bombing offensive in London, by the German air force?
Ponseti Method (Casts)
How is club foot treated these days?
Phoney War
What was the nickname for the time at the beginning of the war, when no air raids happened in London after all?
Germany
What country was the main enemy of England during WWII?
GI's
What was the nickname for American soldiers?
Chamber Pot
What is a pot for using the bathroom, usually kept under one's bed and used when there were no actual bathrooms available?
1 in 1,000 babies
How common is club foot? What is the rate of occurrence?
Trains
How did most of the evacuated children make it to the countryside?
United States
What country was the main ally of England during WWII?
1944 Education Act
What was the British law that made school free for all children up to age 15?