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Canada: World War II
Quiz#1





  1. What years encompassed WWII?



    A) 1914 - 1918
    B) 1935 - 1945
    C) 1939 - 1945
    D) 1940 - 1949



  2. What two events triggered the internment of Japanese Canadians?



    A) Battle of Britain; Battle of Hong Kong
    B) Dunkirk; Pearl Harbour
    C) Dieppe; D-Day
    D) Pearl Harbour; Battle of Hong Kong



  3. What is the full name of the Nazi Party?



    A) National Socialists
    B) National Socialist German Workers Party
    C) National Democratic German Workers Party
    D) National Fascist Workers Party



  4. What was a fault of the League of Nations?



    A) formal policy of appeasement
    B) sanctions
    C) did not have its own military force
    D) all of the above



  5. Why was German so humilated after WWI?



    A) Treaty of Versailles
    B) Great Depression
    C) rise of Adolf Hitler
    D) rise of fascism in Germany



  6. How did the Nazis segregate the Jews?



    A) rationing
    B) ghettos
    C) boycott of stores
    D) internment camps



  7. What was the CWAC?



    A) Commonwealth Wartime Aviation Corps
    B) Canadian Worker's Army Corps
    C) Canadian Women's Army Corps
    D) Co-operative Wartime Army Centre



  8. What caused the United States to declare war on Germany?



    A) Non-aggression pact
    B) bombing of Pearl Harbour
    C) invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany
    D) Anschluss



  9. What was the date of D-Day?



    A) August 17,1942
    B) December 7, 1941
    C) May 7, 1944
    D) June 6, 1944



  10. What was the St. Louis?



    A) boat carrying Jewish refugees that was denied entry to Canada
    B) code name for Camp X
    C) Operation name for the Dieppe Raid
    D) French port where a mass evacuation of Allied troops took place



  11. What was Germany upset about the area called the "Polish Corridor"?



    A) easy access to Russia
    B) occupied by British troops
    C) split German territory
    D) all of the above