WW2 Vocab.

Question 1

Benito Mussolini

Answer 1

Italian France dictator

Question 2

fascism

Answer 2

political philosophy that advocates a strong nationalistic dictatorship

Question 3

Adolf Hitler

Answer 3

German dictator, Nazi Party head

Question 4

Josehp Stalin

Answer 4

communist dictator of the Soviet Union c. 1924-1953

Question 5

Axis

Answer 5

the Rome-Berlin Axis, the alliance between Mussolini and Hitler, later joined by Japan

Question 6

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 6

Prime Minister of Great Britain, made Munich Agreement with Hitler

Question 7

appeasment

Answer 7

meeting demands of a hostile power in order to avoid war

Question 8

blitzkrieg

Answer 8

German “lighting war” tactics

Question 9

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 9

allowed the United States to lend weapons to allies

Question 10

Pearl Harbor

Answer 10

U.S. Naval base attacked by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941

Question 11

Hideki Tojo

Answer 11

Prime Minister of Japan 1941-1944

Question 12

infamy

Answer 12

evil fame or reputation

Question 13

War Production Board

Answer 13

government agency set up during World War 2 to coordinate the production of military equipment and supplies

Question 14

A. Philip Randolph

Answer 14

African American labor leader during World War 2

Question 15

braceros

Answer 15

Mexican workers hired to perform farm labor during World War 2

Question 16

Tuskegee Airmen

Answer 16

famous segregated unit of African-American pilots

Question 17

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 17

a character who symbolized women in manufacturing jobs

Question 18

Japanese American internment

Answer 18

the removal of Japanese Americans from the West to prison camps during World War 2

Question 19

Nesei

Answer 19

Japanese Americans born in the United States

Question 20

gross national product

Answer 20

total value of all the goods and services produced by a nation during a year

Question 21

rationing

Answer 21

the distribution of scarce resources and products

Question 22

war bonds

Answer 22

loans that the government promised to repay with interest

Question 23

D-Day

Answer 23

allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944

Question 24

General Erwin Rommel

Answer 24

German commander in North Africa

Question 25

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 25

Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

Question 26

Stalingrad

Answer 26

Soviet City where the German army was forced to surrender after a battle that lasted for months

Question 27

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 27

final German assault in December 1944 in Ardennes region of Belguim and Lexemburg

Question 28

Yalta conference

Answer 28

conference where Allies planned the post-war world

Question 29

Holocaust

Answer 29

Nazi German crime of killing more than 11 million Jews and other persecuted people in concetration camps

Question 30

anti-semitism

Answer 30

prejudice against Jews

Question 31

Battle of Midway

Answer 31

U.S. vicory over Japanese off Midway Island that proved to be the turning point of the war

Question 32

island hopping

Answer 32

Allied strategy in Pacific of invading selected islands, and using them as bases to advance closer to Japan

Question 33

Guadal canal

Answer 33

first U.S. land victory over the Japanese, 1943

Question 34

Manhattan Project

Answer 34

top-secret government project to develop the atomic bomb

Question 35

Hiroshima

Answer 35

Japanese city that was hit with the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945

Question 36

code-talkers

Answer 36

Navojo Indians recruited by the U.S. Marine corps to transmit messages in the Navajjo language

Question 37

kamikaze

Answer 37

Japanese suicide pilot

Question 38

Marshall plan

Answer 38

U.S. plan developed by George C. Marshall to help boost the economies of European Nations after the war

Question 39

Potsdam conference

Answer 39

Allies' meeting in Potsdam, Germany to plan the end of the war

Question 40

Nuremburg trials

Answer 40

war crime trials of Nazi leaders in Nuremburg, Germany

Question 41

United Nations

Answer 41

international peacekeeping body founded by 50 nations in April, 1945

Question 42

G.I. Bill of Rights

Answer 42

government bill that paid for veterans' education and living expenses

Question 43

communism

Answer 43

single-party political system in which the goverment controls and plans the economy with the goal of common ownership of all property