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Final Jeopardy Category the War at Sea!
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Final Jeopardy What is sonar; convoy system;. Name three reasons the tide started to turn for the Allies in 1942, in the Battle of the Atlantic
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$200 What is Eastern Europe. The ‘bloodiest’ theatre: blitzkrieg; scorched earth; operation barbarrosa
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$400 What is North Africa/Italy The 1 st theatre to close; Desert war; El Alamein.
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$600 What is the Pacific The last theatre to close; leap- frogging, kamikaze; Midway.
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$800 What is the Atlantic. The lifeline to Britain; wolf packs; convoys; sonar.
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$1000 What is Western Europe. Operation Sealion; D-day; blitzkrieg.
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$200 What is Pearl Harbour. The Japanese attack on this military base that brought America into WWII.
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$400 What is the Dieppe Raid. This was a disastrous raid on a French port that resulted in very high Canadian casualties. …
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$600 What is Battle of Stalingrad. This battle was the major turning point for the war on the Eastern Front.
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$800 What is D-day. The Allied Invasion of Western Europe that involved American, British and Canadian forces.
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$1000 What is Operation Dynamo The official name of the British rescue mission nicknamed the “Dunkirk Miracle”.
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$200 Who is William Lyon Mackenzie-King? This man was Prime Minister of Canada during the Second World War?
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$400 Who are Japanese-Canadians. This group of British Columbians were sent to internment camps in 1942.
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$600 Who is General Dwight Eisenhower. Which famous American General thought the bombing of Japan was unncessary?
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$800 Who are Jewish, Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Disabled persons. Identify 3 groups of people who were targeted by Hitler’s “Final Solution.”
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$1000 Who is Hirohito. This man was the Emperor of Japan during the Second World War.
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$200 What is Blitzkrieg. Nicknamed “Lightening War”, this strategy involved as swift combo of planes, tanks, and army.
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$400 What are Wolf Packs. Used by the German’s in the Atlantic this strategy was carried out by U-boats.
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$600 Espionage is the practice of spying and code breaking to gain information of the opposition. Explain espionage.
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$800 What are kamikaze pilots. Nicknamed “divine wind” this strategy was carried out by the Japanese.
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$1000 Retreating forces would burn crops, farms, factories or anything that would support the opposition as they moved into the territory. Describe the practice of Scorched Earth.
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$200 What is London England. This Allied city was bombed for 57 nights during the ‘blitz’.
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$400 What is 6 million. The approximate number of Jewish people killed during the Holocaust.
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$600 What is the Japanese Which nation treated their prisoners of war the worst?.
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$800 What is homes taken, property seized, evacuated to interior, internment camps, “repatriated”, citizenship revoked Identify 3 things done to Canadian Japanese enemy aliens.
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$1000 What is Atomic Bombs a) Hiroshimo b) Nagasaki What happened on a) Aug 6 and again b) Aug 9, 1945?.
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$200 What is conscription. Compulsory military service is also called this.
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$400 Who are Canadian women. Which group of Canadians gained respect and rights during the War?
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$600 Who are Zombies. Canadians protecting the home front were nicknamed this.
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$800 What is to prove their independence from Britian. Why did Canada enter the War a week after Britain?
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$1000 What is the War Measures Act. This policy gave the government complete control and emergency powers during the War.
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