Word Bank Three

Question 1

Kristallnacht

Answer 1

Set off by the murder of German embassy officials

Question 2

Maginot Line

Answer 2

A line of concrete fortifications to protect France from German invasion

Question 3

Vichy Government

Answer 3

The French government during the Nazi occupation

Question 4

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 4

Codename for the German invasion of Russia

Question 5

Tripartite Pact

Answer 5

Recognized Japan’s right to create a new order in Asia

Question 6

Civil Liberties Act

Answer 6

Each surviving member of Internment awarded $20k

Question 7

New Economic Policy

Answer 7

Permitted return of some Capitalist practices

Question 8

Five Year Plans

Answer 8

Stalin’s attempt to industrialize Russia

Question 9

Great Purge

Answer 9

Designed to eliminate dissident members of the Communist Party

Question 10

Weimar Republic

Answer 10

Germany’s first attempt at a liberal democracy

Question 11

Mein Kampf

Answer 11

Detailed Hitler’s political views

Question 12

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 12

To renounce war as an instrument of national policy

Question 13

Alliance System

Answer 13

Raised the possibility of a minor incident leading to a major war

Question 14

Reinsurance Treaty

Answer 14

Expired after Bismarck retired

Question 15

Entente Cordiale

Answer 15

Marked an end to centuries of conflict

Question 16

Fourteen Points

Answer 16

Called “the only possible program for peace”

Question 17

October Revolution

Answer 17

A bloodless coup that overthrew provisional government

Question 18

Great Depresson

Answer 18

A global economic recession

Question 19

Final Solution

Answer 19

Nazi term for systematic extermination of Jews

Question 20

Righteous Persons

Answer 20

Honored persons who risked lives to help Jews

Question 21

Manhattan Project

Answer 21

Name given to program to develop an atomic weapon

Question 22

Truman Doctrine

Answer 22

Shifted US policy of detente to policy of containment