Vocab

Question 1

Weimar Republic

Answer 1

A democratic government founded in Germany.

Question 2

Nazi

Answer 2

A German Socialist Worker’s party. Short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.

Question 3

Anti-Semitism

Answer 3

To dislike or hate Jewish people.

Question 4

Enabling Act

Answer 4

An amendment to the Weimar Consitution that gave the German Cabinet (aka Hitler) the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.

Question 5

Night of the Long Knives

Answer 5

June 1934

Hitler murdered 1000 people who were “his enemies”

Question 6

Nuremburg Laws

Answer 6

Hitler enacted his draconian measures against Jews:

• Jews had to wear the Star of David all times
• lost professional careers, property, and citizenship
• can’t mingle with German population

Question 7

Kristallnacht

Answer 7

“Crystal Night”

Nazi encouraged Germans to attack Jews and their property. Shops attacked, Jews beaten in public, imprisoned for no reason.

Question 8

Gestapo

Answer 8

Secret Nazi police force. Can do anything if Hitler thinks they’re serving the state.

Question 9

The Great Terror

Answer 9

Anyone who opposed Stalin was executed. Millions of Soviet citizens lost their lives.

Question 10

Appeasement

Answer 10

Occurs when a certain country becomes aggressive, and other countries give the aggressor what it wants to prevent war.

Question 11

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Answer 11

Aug 23 1939

Pact whereby both sides promise to not attack each other, and will divide Poland between them.

Question 12

Blitzkrieg

Answer 12

“Lightning War”

Airplanes led the attack designed to knock out key enemy positions. then is followed by tanks and infantry motor unit attacks. They will close in behind the enemy, trapping them.

Question 13

Conscription

Answer 13

Compulsory military service.

Question 14

Phony War

Answer 14

Everyone expected Germany to attack Western Europe, but bad weather and indecision prevented this from happening. Allied troops and Canadians waited for attack.

Question 15

Radar

Answer 15

Use of radio waves to detect location of things.

Question 16

Sonar

Answer 16

Use of sounds pulses to detect objects underwater.

Question 17

Scorched Earth Policy

Answer 17

When an army retreats, but destroys everything (food, supplies etc) so enemies will have nothing to use.

Question 18

Corvettes

Answer 18

A small warship designed for convoy escort duty.

Question 19

V-E Day

Answer 19

“Victory in Europe”

The day the last of German troops surrendered.

Question 20

Prisoners of War (POW)

Answer 20

Soldiers who are captured by enemy forces during armed conflict.

Question 21

Island Hopping

Answer 21

Selecting key islands 400 miles apart to take over.

Question 22

The Manhattan Project

Answer 22

A very secret and expensive project to determine if it was possible to create and atomic bomb.

Question 23

V-J Day

Answer 23

Aug 14 1945

Japanese government sued for peace (surrendered). WWII is over.

Question 24

War Supply Board

Answer 24

An agency of the US government that supervised war production.

Question 25

Hyde park Declaration

Answer 25

Sates that the US would buy more raw material from Canada and would supply Canada with American parts for weapons production.

Question 26

Propaganda

Answer 26

Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting a particular cause, often stretching the truth in a bias way.

Question 27

Camp X

Answer 27

Special spy training facility at Oshawa, Ontario

Question 28

National Resource Mobilization Act

Answer 28

Requires all men to help with war effort, but not to serve overseas.

Question 29

Internment Camps

Answer 29

A prisoner camp for the confinement of the enemy aliens, POW and etc…

Question 30

St. Louis Incident

Answer 30

A ship to take Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba, but was rejected by Cuba then Florida and Canada to land.

The ship returned to Europe and many died in Nazi concentration camps.

Question 31

Ghettos

Answer 31

Designated areas in the city where Jews were compelled to live.

Question 32

Final Solution

Answer 32

Hitler ordered that all Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe to be rounded up and sent to extermination camps to be killed in groups in gas chambers.

Question 33

Genocide

Answer 33

The systematic extermination of a religious or racial group.

Question 34

Auschwitz

Answer 34

A concentration/death camp where millions were executed.

Question 35

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 35

1946
Allies set up a war crimes court at Nuremberg.
Leaders legally charged other leaders for their immoral actions.