Word Bank Four

Question 1

Bolsheviks

Answer 1

Forerunners of Communist Party

Question 2

Genocide

Answer 2

Organized killing of a people for the expressed purpose of putting and end to their existence

Question 3

Capital Ships

Answer 3

Largest and most powerful warship of any given era in naval history

Question 4

Propaganda

Answer 4

Spread of ideas to further a cause of damage opposing cause

Question 5

Reparations

Answer 5

Payment for war damages

Question 6

Rhineland

Answer 6

A buffer zone that was created

Question 7

Mandate

Answer 7

Territory administered but not owned by a nation

Question 8

La Gripe

Answer 8

Responsible for more deaths than WWI

Question 9

Soviets

Answer 9

Councils of workers, soldiers, and intellectuals

Question 10

Brown Shirts

Answer 10

Paramilitary group called “storm troopers”

Question 11

Gestapo

Answer 11

German secret police

Question 12

Gallipoli

Answer 12

Attack on peninsula was considered disaster for British

Question 13

Appeasement

Answer 13

Making concessions to preserve the peace

Question 14

Lusitania

Answer 14

Caused President Wilson to file an official protest

Question 15

Palestine

Answer 15

British mandate that was a scene of great conflict between Arabs and Jews

Question 16

Pogrom

Answer 16

A massive attack on a particular religious or ethnic group

Question 17

Euthanasia

Answer 17

Killed an estimated 200k disabled men, women, and children

Question 18

Swastika

Answer 18

Ancient symbol commandeered by the Nazi Party

Question 19

Blitzkrieg

Answer 19

German battle strategy that means “lightning war”

Question 20

Stalags

Answer 20

German POW camps

Question 21

Yalta

Answer 21

Considered by many as the start of the Cold War

Question 22

Potsdam

Answer 22

Here Truman learned the A-bomb test was successful

Question 23

Nuremburg

Answer 23

Site of the trials of Nazi War Criminals