World War II Chapter 5 Vocab

Munich Agreement let Hitler take over a part of Czechoslovakia, in return for stopping his agression, but he took over the whold of czechoslovakia, so Britain declared war

Canada was not automatically at war this time, but King did not really want Canada to join because of the issue of conscription, and the economy was just improving. However, he also knew that Canada going to war was inevitable so he called a special session of Parliament, and Ernest Lapointe agreed so Canada declared war

King's ministerof justice; convinced Quebec voters to support the war because he was from Quebec; opposed conscription

No cheering because everyone still remembered the horrors of the last world war, but there was no trouble finding volunteers; 58 330 in the first month

Established in 1939 - 1940. Pilots, navigators, and ground grew from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada were trained on the Canadian prairies. During the first year of the Second World War, this enterprise was probably Canada's greatest contribution to the war effort.

During the Second World War, the Canadian economy and the Canadian people were organized to do whatever it took to win the war. The government told industries what to produce, and farmers were told what to grow. Even the amount of food a person could buy was controlled with the imposition of rationing.

(1886 - 1960) A very influential minister in both Mackenzie King's and Louis St. Laurent's Liberal Cabinets. From 1940 to 1945, as the Minister of Munitions and Supply, he essentially ran Canada's wartime economy. After the war, he was responsible for the smooth transition to a peacetime economy while serving as Minister of Reconstruction, Trade, and Commerce.

Businesses and industries owned by the Canadian government

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A phase in early World War II—in the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany (shortly after the German invasion of Poland) in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940—that was marked by a lack of major military operations in Continental Europe

"Lightning War." Refers to the highly effective tactic used by the Germans in the first two years of World War II. Fast mobile ground forces equipped with tanks were supported by air planes. This strategy was more effective than the static defense strategy of the opposition forces. Examples include the attack on Poland, 1939; France, 1940; the Soviet Union, 1941.

Between May 27 and June 3, 1940, approximately 340,000 British and French troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk, a French port on the English Channel. The Allied troops had to leave all heavy equipment. The evacuation was aided by calm seas and the Royal Air Force.

(1940 - 1941) The German air force attempted to bomb Britain into submission; however, with the use of radar, secret code-breaking equipment, and the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force fighter pilots, the German attack proved to be unsuccessful. Many British citizens, however, were killed and many cities, including London, were badly damaged. Approximately one eighth of the Royal Air Force pilots were Canadian.

(German: Unternehmen Seelöwe) was Nazi Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom during World War II, beginning in 1940. To have had any chance of success, however, the operation would have required air supremacy over the English Channel. With the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Sea Lion was postponed indefinitely on 17 September 1940 and never carried out.

The program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945. It ended the neutrality of the US and it took the UK until 2006 to repay the debt. Canada operated a similar program that sent $4.7 billion in supplies to Britain and Soviet Union