Across
- 2. The plan that Canada agreed to host and ran in December 1939 to train pilots and other flight personnel with British instructors. (abbreviated)
- 4. Foreign women who married Canadian soldiers serving overseas and then immigrated to Canada after the war. (2 words)
- 7. D-day is also known as which operation. (2 words)
- 11. The leader of this political party argued against going to war. (abbreviated)
- 12. What did Canada practice in order to keep affairs outside their borders?
- 13. Known as the “Minister of Everything”.
- 16. The month Canada joins the war.
- 17. The act that gave the government powers to take control over the nation’s resources and allowed conscription for home defence. (abbreviated)
- 18. This raid happened in 1942 where Canadian troops fought against Germany, canada suffered heavy losses. (2 words)
- 20. The air force consisting of Canadian pilots that participated in Britain’s bomber command. (abbreviated)
- 22. Captured combatants are known as? (abbreviated)
- 23. Canada started building these small warships during the Battle of Atlantic to escort convoys across the ocean.
- 25. Provincial liquor boards rationed this type of liquid.
- 26. Using all resources and infrastructures to focus on the war. (2 words)
- 29. Rebellious young men who defied clothing restrictions. (2 words)
- 31. The ___ provided about half the escorts across the Atlantic. (abbreviated)
- 34. The day Hong Kong fell to the Japanese is known as? (2 words)
- 36. The Austrian-Hungarian born citizen who failed art class, fought in ww1 and eventually pursuited a German political career. (2 words)
- 39. Men who avoided enlistment into the army until they were forced to due to conscription under the National Resources Mobilization Act.
- 41. Who assured Parliament, and Quebec, that “So long as this government may be in power, no such measure [conscription] shall be enacted.” (4 words)
- 43. Women’s skirts were __ due to the waste-not-want-not regulation.
- 44. The act of sending a person back to their native country or land.
- 45. What was introduced in January 1942, to reduce hoarding and ensure food for everyone. (2 words)
- 46. Right to vote in public.
- 47. How many days after Britain declares war does Canada join.
- 48. What did King use to help the conscription crisis that regarded the voting of the public.
- 49. Georgian revolutionary who leads the Soviet Union. (2 words)
Down
- 1. Enemy soldiers and aliens were detained in this place.(2 words)
- 3. Under which act that dated from the last war was the federal government given increased control over the economy and powers such as the right to restrict individual liberty. (3 words)
- 4. This gender was given the opportunity to join the armed force for the first time however, were not allowed to join combat roles.
- 5. A tactic used by combatants to avoid exposing themselves to enemy forces, where combatants create entrances into building or rooms by blasting or tunneling through walls. (2 words)
- 6. Established in 1942, helped coordinate wartime propaganda in Canada. (3 words)
- 8. This politician was placed in a Canadian internment camp during WW2 for refusing to enlist for conscription and encouraged others to do the same. (2 words)
- 9. The alliance that included Germany, Italy, and Japan.
- 10. This was made in March 1942, which helped with mobilization and the allocation of labour. (3 words)
- 14. A person that is forced to leave their country to escape war.
- 15. What was created that was owned by the Canadian government that produced items private sectors could not. (2 words)
- 19. Where did Canadians land first during D-day. (2 words)
- 21. Issued to every person entitling them to receive limited quantities of items such as sugar, coffee, tea, butter, preserves meat, and evaporated meat. (2 words)
- 24. Misleading information that is spread among the public for the purpose of damaging an opposing cause or spread a point of view.
- 27. The alliance that eventually included Canada, Britain, USA , France, and other commonwealth countries.
- 28. What did canadian citizens invest in to help the war effort? (2 words)
- 30. This ship, carrying 907 Jewish refugees, attempting to escape persecution was denied entry into Canada in 1939. (2 words)
- 32. Naval submarines the allied ships defended against. (2 words)
- 33. What was created in 1942 that provided shore based jobs, wireless operators, coders, drivers, operational plotters for women? (abbreviated)
- 35. Under the NRMA in June 1940, ____ allowed mandatory enlistment in the army to help with home defence.
- 37. Canada shows __ by not automatically declaring war following Britain’s declaration.
- 38. The troops that dropped behind enemy lines to disrupt transportation and communication in the Normandy invasion?
- 40. Discrimination or hostility toward Jewish people is known as?(2 words)
- 42. The day the allies took control over Europe. (2 words)