korean war +vietnam war
Who made a name for himself as a peace broker in the korean war?
Lester B. Pearson
Minister of foreign affairs and future P.M. of Canada
what year was each crisis?
Cuban: 1962
Suez Canal: 1956
What were the 4 MAIN causes of WWI and what was the spark
militarism
alliance system
imperialism
nationalism
why did germany have to pay reperations after WWI
To cover civilian damage caused during the war
D-day
Normandy landings on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the allied invasion of Normandy in operation overlord. Largest seaborne invasion in history. Utah beach (USA), Omaha beach (USA), Gold beach (British), Sword beach (British), and Juno beach (Canada).
who was NK and SK backed by
NK: Soviet union, china
SK: personnel from Un, US
who were the 3 key people in cuban missile crisis
Nikita Khrushkev, Fidel Castro, and JFK
who was in the triple entente
who was in the triple alliance
alliance: germany, austro-hungary, italy
Why did Hitler hate Jews?
Hitler didn't invent the hatred of Jews in Europe. he developed his political ideas in Vienna which had a very anti-jewish mayor. antisemitism was very common in the city.
Dieppe raid
Happened early in the war. Invasion by the Canadian soldiers. It was a massive failure. Didn’t support the soldiers with artillery fire, almost 2,000 Canadians captured, 1,500 killed.
what was the herbicide used in the Vietnam war? what was/is it's primary long term affect?
Agent orange, deformities in babies
the suez canal joins the _____ and ______.
Mediterranian + red sea
what was the Schlieffen plan?
strategy created by Count Adolf von Schlieffen to attack France by going through the Netherlands and Belgium to avoid a two front war with Russsia.
which 2 countries were first to declare war on germany
britain and france
cold war
period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.
Who was officially fighting in the vietnam war? Who was each side backed by?
North vietnam (soviet union) and south vietnam (USA)
Why did 1956 Egyptian President Abdul Gamal Nasser nationalized the canal
Allowed them to charge ships for passing through it
Was mad that foreign european powers had control over one of most precious regions
What beaches were stormed on d-day? What was d-days code name
Utah (USA), Omaha (USA), Gold (UK), Sword (UK), Juno (Canada)
Operation overlord
who were germanys allies
japan and italy
mutually assured destruction
Military theory that was developed to deter the use of nuclear weapons. Helped prevent the cold war from turning hot. Full scale use of nuclear weapons by 2 or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
"Following WWII NK & SK were divided along the ___th parallel"
38
Why was America involved in the Cuban missile crisis
Fidel Castro led a communist revolution in Cuba in 1959. After the revolution Cuba received economic and military aid from Khrushchev [USSR]. JFK was elected president in 1960, saw this as a threat to American stability, given that Cuba is 90 miles off the coast of Miami
what was important about the battle passchendaele, 2nd battle of ypres, and vimy ridge?
passchendaele: canadians completed battle in most horrific conditions of the war
ypres: used chlorine gas. canadian soldiers held ground and defended against german attack
vimy ridge: Canada won even though Germany had upperhand
what was the first country to be invaded by germany
poland
iron curtain
Political boundary that separated Europe from members of Warsaw Pact (Eastern Europe) and countries that weren’t (The West). Winston Churchill gave it its name.