World war 2 history

• Evacuation of Dunkirk


  Approximately 338,000 British soldiers were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk
• Technology of war seen in the video


  • Compared to World War 1, the technology had advanced
• Hitler's timeline for Germany's invasion against England

  The Battle of Britain started in September 1940 after Germany accidentally bombed London, prompting the RAF to bomb Berlin, leading Hitler to order the Luftwaffe to attack Britain's air force and then the Blitz for 5 nights
• Preparedness of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)

  • The RCAF was not very prepared, with only a few pilots and planes
• Role Canada played in the Battle of Britain
• Significance of the Battle of Britain
• Luftwaffe


  German air force
• Blitz


  Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to redirect its attacks from Britain to London for 57 consecutive nights
• BCATP


  British Commonwealth Air Training Plan - a plan to train pilots from Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
• Churchill: '"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"'
• Objective of the Dieppe Raid
• Statistics from the Dieppe Raid
• Enigma machine


  A machine that encodes and decodes messages
• What is needed along with an Enigma machine
• How the new technology changed the veterans' viewpoint of the Dieppe Raid
• Statistics from the Battle of the Atlantic
• Additional risks of going through the North Atlantic
• Wolf Packs


  Groups of U-boats that would attack convoys
• Corvettes


  Fast ships with destroyer-like capabilities
• Degaussing


  A process to cancel out a ship's magnetic field and make it harder to detect by U-boats
• Convoys


  Groups of merchant ships traveling together for protection
• Challenges of fighting in the Atlantic
• Mackenzie King to send conscripts overseas
• hen 50% would Sified.
• Define the following


  • Wolf Packs
  • Corvettes
  • Degaussing
  • Convoys
• Wolf Packs


  Swift packs that blak the path coal towels in puckles
• Corvettes


  An all fast ship win a destroer
• Degaussing


  A process in which system of elected cables and cancel out the ships megnetic field
• Two things that would be most challenging about fighting a battle in the Atlantic
• The government had hoped that conscription would not be necessary
• The National Resource Moon Act (RMA) allowed the government to conscript men for the armed forces for domestic service
• As the war progressed, cuties increased and solunteer mistments decreased, Mackenzie King faced pressure to enact conscription for overseas service
• Mackenzie King had Promised Canadians at the beginning of the war that he would not put fu conscription into elled and he did not want to go back on his word
• Mackenzie King decided to hold a plebisote-a public vote -on the issue and let Canadians decide if they wanted full conscription or not
• Plebiscite

  A public vote on a issue, the results of which are not binding
• Referendum


  A public vote on a proposal, law or constitutional change, the results of which are binding
• Canada voted on the hue ofenson in 1942 and inali provinces except Quebes, the majority voted to conscription
• 85% of French-speaking Canadians (Francophones) voted against conscription
• Mackenzie King waited unt November 1941 to start sending-RMA soldiers overseas
• Many NRMA soldiers begged to be sent thro Combarbecause they were bored with guarding Canada from German or dapanese attacks that were never going to occur