Vocabulary 10

Question 1

Question: Totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union who led the Soviet Union through World War II and created a powerful Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe after the war?

Answer 1

Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question 2

Question: Characteristics of a political system in which the government exercises complete control over its citizens’ lives?

Answer 2

Answer: Totalitarian

Question 3

Question: Italian fascist leader who ruled as Italy’s dictator for more than 20 years beginning in 1922 and made Italy a totalitarian state?

Answer 3

Answer: Benito Mussolini

Question 4

Question: A political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator?

Answer 4

Answer: Fascism

Question 5

Question: Totalitarian dictator of Germany whose invasion of European countries led to World War II. He believed in the supremacy of the German Aryan race and was responsible for the mass murder of millions of Jews and others in the Holocaust?

Answer 5

Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question 6

Question: The political philosophy based on extreme nationalism, racism, and militaristic expansion that Adolf Hitler put into practice in Germany from 1933 to 1945?

Answer 6

Answer: Nazism

Question 7

Question: Japanese nationalist and general who took control of Japan during World War II?

Answer 7

Answer: Hideki Tojo

Question 8

Question: The British Prime Minister at the beginning of World War II who supported the policy of appeasement, allowing Hitler to gain land and power in the 1930s?

Answer 8

Answer: Neville Chamberlain

Question 9

Question: British Prime Minister during World War II who opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II?

Answer 9

Answer: Winston Churchill

Question 10

Question: The granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace?

Answer 10

Answer: Appeasement

Question 11

Question: An agreement in which two nations promised not to go to war with each other?

Answer 11

Answer: Non-aggression pact

Question 12

Question: From the German word meaning “lightning war,” a sudden mass attack with combined air and ground forces intended to achieve a quick victory?

Answer 12

Answer: Blitzkrieg

Question 13

Question: The systematic murder or genocide of Jews and other groups in Europe by the Nazis before and during World War II?

Answer 13

Answer: Holocaust

Question 14

Question: Night of broken glass, a name given to the night of November 9th, 1938, when gangs of Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in Germany?

Answer 14

Answer: Kristallnacht

Question 15

Question: The deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, nationality, or religious group?

Answer 15

Answer: Genocide

Question 16

Question: A city section where a certain minority group is pressured or forced to live?

Answer 16

Answer: Ghetto

Question 17

Question: A prison camp operated by Nazi Germany where Jews and other groups considered to be enemies of Adolf Hitler were starved, while doing slave labor, and were murdered?

Answer 17

Answer: Concentration camp

Question 18

Question: A series of laws enacted in the 1930s to prevent US arms sales and loans to nations at war?

Answer 18

Answer: Neutrality Acts

Question 19

Question: The group of nations, including Germany, Italy, and Japan, that opposed the Allies in World War II?

Answer 19

Answer: Axis Powers

Question 20

Question: A U.S. law passed in 1940 that enacted the nation’s first peacetime military draft?

Answer 20

Answer: Selective Training and Service Act

Question 21

Question: A law passed in 1941 that allowed the US to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the Axis powers?

Answer 21

Answer: Lend-Lease Act

Question 22

Question: In 1941, declaration of principles in which the US and Great Britain set forth their goals in opposing the Axis powers?

Answer 22

Answer: Atlantic Charter

Question 23

Question: The group of nations, including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the US, that opposed the Axis powers?

Answer 23

Answer: Allies

Question 24

Question: American general and politician; he led US mobilization for World War II and helped plan the nation’s war strategy?

Answer 24

Answer: George Marshall

Question 25

Question: U.S. Army unit created during World War II to enable women to serve in non-combat positions?

Answer 25

Answer: Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)

Question 26

Question: An agency established by Congress to control inflation during World War II?

Answer 26

Answer: Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Question 27

Question: An agency established during World War II to coordinate the production of military supplies by US industries?

Answer 27

Answer: War Production Board (WPB)

Question 28

Question: A restriction of people’s rights to buy unlimited amounts of particular foods and other goods, often implemented during wartime to ensure adequate supplies for the military?

Answer 28

Answer: Rationing

Question 29

Question: The US program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II?

Answer 29

Answer: Manhattan Project

Question 30

Question: African American union and civil rights leader; his protest in World War II led President Roosevelt to ban discrimination in government and defense jobs?

Answer 30

Answer: A. Philip Randolph

Question 31

Question: American civil rights leader and founder of the Congress of Racial Equality; he sought to confront urban segregation in the North?

Answer 31

Answer: James Farmer

Question 32

Question: An interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against segregation in Northern cities?

Answer 32

Answer: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Question 33

Question: Confinement or a restriction in movement, especially under wartime conditions?

Answer 33

Answer: Internment

Question 34

Question: An organization that pushed the US government to compensate Japanese Americans for property they had lost when interned during World War II?

Answer 34

Answer: Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)