Canada and World War Two

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