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War World Two
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Disarmament
- Some world leaders wanted all countries to destroy their weapons. A policy is called disarmament
- After war world I end country got very smell armies.
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Dictator
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Nazi
- The ideology and practice associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party and state as well as other related far-right groups. It was also promoted in other European countries with large ethnic German communities, such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia.
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Concentration- camp
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Nuremberg Laws
The laws against the Jews were called the Nuremberg Laws. -
Pacific
Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian served behind enemy lines, their missions included sabotage operation deep in the jungle, and Japanese Canadian translated to help interrogating Japanese prisoners, wrote and broadcasted propaganda to isolated Japanese units, and monitored Japanese radio broadcasts. -
Allies
The Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War and helped to stop German, Italian and Japanese aggression. The Allies included Canada, France, Britain, the USSR, and the United States) -
Britain
The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, literally "Air battle for England") is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces,and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. The German objective was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (R -
Atlantic
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Air War
1941 - 1942 the Allies carried out a series of bombing raids on Germany. On the first of January 1944 the RCAF reached its peak wartime strength of 215,200 all ranks (including 15,153) women, 104,000 were in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 64,928 were serving at home and 46,272 were serving overseas. There were 78 squadrons in service: 35 overseas, 43 at home (of which six had been ordered overseas).
Other RCAF crews served on anti - submarine patrols.Altogether about 250 000 men an -
Aryans
white people who are not Jewish, Hitler believe, they had the right to rule the world. -
Totalitarian state
Nazi Germany became a totalitarian state (everything was controlled the government….the Nazi party) -
Corvettes
The main Canadian warships used in the Battle of the Atlantic -
Hong Kong
In the second World War , the Japanese Empire launched an attack Hong Kong. on 8 December 1941, the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers brave enough to defend the colony. -
Dieppe
August 1942, Canadian troops were sent to test German forces along the French coast at Dieppe -
Convoy
A group of ships or vehicles traveling together, typically accompanied by armed troops, warships, or other vehicles for protection -
Italy
July 1943 , the canadian took a part in the invasion of sicily. Later year Canadian soldiers landed on mainland Italy. ( Out of 93 000 Canadian served in Italy and more than 5700 died. ) 1945 Allies won control of Italy.
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D-Day
Day of Deliverance was fixed for 5th June 1944. It was Canada’s largest military operation. Parachutists were dropped behind enemy lines.Canadian soldiers landed at Juno Beach, they faced underwater obstacles, land mines, barbed wire and heavy machine-guns fire from Germans. They had 335 dead and 739 other casualties. -
Europe
While forces were landing on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day other Allied forces invaded Europe from the south through Italy and France. Canadian units had to clear German forces from the channel ports. -
Cold War
Canada emerged from the Second World War as a world power, radically transforming a principally agricultural and rural dominion of a dying empire into a truly sovereign nation, with a market economy focused on a combination of resource extraction and refinement, heavy manufacturing, and high-technology research and development. As a consequence of supplying so much of the war effort for six long years, Canada's military grew to an exceptional size: over a million service personnel, the world's t -
Korean War
Canada participated on the side of the United Nations in the Korean War, with 26,000 Canadians participating in the Korean War, and Canada sending eight destroyers。 Canadian aircraft provided transport, supply and logistics. 516 Canadians died in the conflict, 312 of the deaths were from combat.
