World War II

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  1. 2. People who actively cooperated with the German occupation
  2. 4. Moral principles protecting all people codified globally by the United Nations after the war
  3. 8. Longest continuous military campaign of the war fought largely by the Royal Canadian Navy
  4. 9. Canada’s Prime Minister throughout World War II
  5. 10. Members of the non-active Canadian military called up for home defence
  6. 11. Biased or misleading information used by the Canadian government to promote victory bonds and enlistment
  7. 14. Canada’s Minister of Munitions and Supply during World War II
  8. 15. Special national vote called by King to release the Canadian government from its anti-conscription promise
  9. 17. Strategy which means lightning war to overwhelm opposition
  10. 18. Normandy coastline assaulted by over 14,000 Canadian soldiers on D-Day
  11. 20. Military weapons ammunition and equipment produced at a massive scale by Canadian factories
  12. 21. Nazis’ deliberate murder of millions of European Jews during World War II
  13. 23. Disastrous 1942 Allied coastal raid in France where over 900 Canadian soldiers were killed
  14. 24. Primary naval submarines operated by Germany in World War II
  15. 25. Federal government limits placed on Canadian income and consumer goods to prevent inflation
  16. 27. Prejudice against Jews
  17. 28. Evacuation of Allied forces to Britain
  18. 29. Largest amphibious invasion in history which included a massive Canadian assault force on the beaches of Normandy
  19. 30. Period of minimal military activity on the Western Front from September 1939 to May 1940
Down
  1. 1. Major oceanic theatre of war encompassing East Asia Southeast Asia and island campaigns
  2. 3. Massive joint program that trained over 130,000 Commonwealth aircrew on Canadian soil
  3. 5. Canadian detention centres used to forcibly relocate and confine Japanese-Canadians
  4. 6. Post-war courts established in Nuremberg and Tokyo to prosecute Axis leaders for war crimes
  5. 7. Battle in which the Royal Air Force and over 100 Canadian pilots defended the United Kingdom against the Luftwaffe
  6. 12. Nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force a Japanese surrender
  7. 13. People who actively resisted the German occupation
  8. 16. World’s first female aircraft designer who managed Canadian Hawker Hurricane production
  9. 19. Country liberated from German occupation by Canadian Forces
  10. 22. First overland battle of World War II fought by Canadian soldiers resulting in brutal captivity
  11. 26. International treaties establishing legal standards for humanitarian treatment and prisoners of war