Unit 14 vocab World Studies

Question 1

american policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

Answer 1

Containment

Question 2

an object that revolves around another object in space

Answer 2

Satellite

Question 3

a “curtain” split between the democratic nations and communist nations, Winston Churchill’s term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.

Answer 3

Iron Curtain

Question 4

Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city

Answer 4

Berlin Airlift

Question 5

a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe, treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance

Answer 5

Warsaw Pact

Question 6

May 8, 1945; victory in Europe, Day when the Germans surrendered

Answer 6

V-E Day

Question 7

A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others

Answer 7

Island-Hopping

Question 8

Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships.

Answer 8

Kamikaze

Question 9

June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.

Answer 9

D-Day

Question 10

(1942) World War II battle between invading German forces and Soviet defenders for control of Stalingrad; each side sustained hundreds of thousands of casualties; Germany’s defeat marked turning point in the war

Answer 10

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 11

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Answer 11

Genocide

Question 12

a person who assists the enemy; a person who works with another person or group in order to achieve or do something

Answer 12

Collaborator

Question 13

payment for war damages, as part of the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 13

Reparations

Question 14

“lighting war”, typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

Answer 14

Blitzkrieg

Question 15

a system that uses reflected radio waves to detect objects and measure their distance and speed, land

Answer 15

Radar

Question 16

a system that uses reflected sound waves to detect and locate objects underwater

Answer 16

Sonar

Question 17

the successful defense of Great Britain against the air raids conducted by the German air force in 1940 after the fall of France during World War II.

Answer 17

Battle of Britain

Question 18

when soldiers were placed along the maginot line and they waited for an attack from Germany, well Germany was attacking someone else

Answer 18

Phony War

Question 19

official permission or approval, support

Answer 19

Sanction

Question 20

A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. Associated with Neville Chamberlain’s policy of making concessions to Adolf Hitler.

Answer 20

Appeasement

Question 21

the act of forcibly suppressing or eliminating a population considering to be hostile

Answer 21

Pacification

Question 22

the union of Austria and Germany, resulting from the occupation of Austria by the Germans army in 1938

Answer 22

Anschluss