World War II Vocab Review

Question 1

Facism

Answer 1

Political system headed by a dictator in which the government controls business and labor and opposition is not permitted

Question 2

Aggression

Answer 2

A warlike act by one country without just cause

Question 3

Nazi

Answer 3

A member of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party

Question 4

Scapegoat

Answer 4

A person or group who is made to bear blame for others

Question 5

Concentration camp

Answer 5

A prison camp for civilians who are considered enemies of the state

Question 6

Totalitarian state

Answer 6

a country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of people’s lives

Question 7

Neutrality Acts

Answer 7

A series of laws that banned arms sales or loans to countries at war

Question 8

Good Neighbor Policy

Answer 8

Strengthen friendly relations with Latin America

Question 9

Munich Conference

Answer 9

A meeting of Britain, France, Italy and Germany which an agreement was signed giving part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler

Question 10

Appeasement

Answer 10

Giving into aggression in order to avoid war

Question 11

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 11

Agreement between Hitler and Stalin where the two dictators agreed not to attack each other

Question 12

Blitzkrieg

Answer 12

Swift and powerful German military attack in WWII; “lightning war.”

Question 13

Axis

Answer 13

WWII alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan, and 6 other nations

Question 14

Allies

Answer 14

WWII alliance of Britain, France, Soviet Union, US, China, and 45 other countries

Question 15

Battle of Britain

Answer 15

Germany’s failed attempt to subdue Britain in 1940 in preparation for invasion

Question 16

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 16

Allowed US to sell arms and equipment to Britain during WWII

Question 17

Atlantic Charter

Answer 17

Program developed by US and Britain that set goals for the postwar world

Question 18

War Production Board

Answer 18

Government agency during WWII to help factories shift from making consumer goods to making war materials

Question 19

Rationing

Answer 19

Limits the amount of goofed that can be bought

Question 20

Victory Garden

Answer 20

A vegetable garden planted to combat US food shortages

Question 21

Tuskegee Airmen

Answer 21

African American fighter pilots who trained in Tuskegee, Alabama during WWII

Question 22

Internment

Answer 22

Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group

Question 23

Bracero Program

Answer 23

Recruitment of Mexican laborers to work in the US during WWII

Question 24

Battle of Midway

Answer 24

1942 battle in the Pacific where American planes sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers

Question 25

Operation Overlord

Answer 25

Code name for the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944

Question 26

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 26

German counterattack in December 1944 that temporarily slowed the allied invasion of Germany

Question 27

Island-Hopping

Answer 27

Allied strategy of capturing Japanese-held Islands to gain control of the Pacific

Question 28

Concentration Camp

Answer 28

Prison camp for civilians who are considered enemies of the state

Question 29

Death camp

Answer 29

Camp where people were systematically murdered

Question 30

Holocaust

Answer 30

Slaughter of Europe’s Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII

Question 31

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 31

Nazi war crimes held in 1945 and 1946