Canada and World War Two
Across
- 5. A slogan given to the newfound social security policy of Canada (3 words)
- 7. Canada’s Rosie the Riveter (three words)
- 9. Alliance of Britain, France, Commonwealth Countries, and other nations
- 11. Promise by the Prime Minister that was broken (two words)
- 14. Struggled against British radars
- 15. Sector of the economy that boomed from the war (2 words)
- 20. Controversy and public pressure surrounding the amendment of this legislation caused cabinet ministers in support to consider resigning together (abbreviation)
- 24. The reason why Canadians mined uranium during the war (two words)
- 25. A man whose ashes were thrown into a river by the Soviet Army
- 28. The Japanese committed terrible war crimes against the people at these sites (abbreviation + another word)
- 30. Second easternmost beach attacked on D-Day (two words)
- 37. A “miracle drug” of the war
- 38. Nickname for what was mistaken to be weak by the Allies (two words)
- 39. Sparked the development of an early computer (two words)
- 40. “I don’t want to have them and I won’t have them”, said a Canadian commodore upon hearing they would be in his command
- 41. Hamburg was left in a firestorm from the attacks of this group (two words)
- 43. Terrorized ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (no hyphen)
- 44. A “miracle” Allied evacuation
- 46. Issued by the government to prevent hoarding (2 words)
- 47. Created when the private sector was unable to produce what was needed (2 words)
- 49. A form of investment during the war (2 words)
- 50. Referring to Hitler’s “Final Solution”
Down
- 1. Battle carefully rehearsed in order to avoid a disaster like Dieppe (two words)
- 2. A task Canadians were given when the Allies reached the Rhine River (three words)
- 3. The difference in the pay between men and women (two words)
- 4. A legislation that only invoked two times in Canadian history (three words)
- 6. To avoid inflation like WWI, the Canadian government raised this for revenue (2 words)
- 8. “Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary” (two words)
- 10. A result of the Japanese Internment after the war
- 12. Held to gather Canadians’ views on the issue of conscription
- 13. Canadian Government encouraged this group of people to immigrate here by paying for their voyage (2 words)
- 16. Name people called C.D. Howe (3 words)
- 17. Battle that commenced as a result of “Operation Sea Lion” (three words)
- 18. 1944; employers were forced to recognize these bodies (2 words)
- 19. One of the benefits women received in Quebec from the war (two words)
- 21. Caused by the enlistment of workers in the forces and expansion of industry (2 words)
- 22. Allied trail run invasion of Europe in France (three words)
- 23. Men conscripted after the amendment of the NRMA
- 26. Implemented despite the government not considering them a security risk (two words)
- 27. Political figure arrested for refusing conscription and encouraging others to do the same (two words)
- 29. Set up by Nazis to isolate those not “pure” (two words)
- 31. Came with the demand for social reform in Canada for family members under 16 (2 words)
- 32. Alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan
- 33. Defenders of a convoy
- 34. Encountered hostility, especially from men in uniform, for their dress
- 35. “Great Purge” campaign to solidify this man’s power
- 36. A name given to the day Hong Kong fell to the Japanese (two words)
- 42. “Il Duce”
- 45. Program established by Mackenzie King in hopes of avoiding conscription (abbreviation)
- 48. Froze all ___ to prevent inflation in 1941