WWI & WWII

Question 1

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 1

Treaty that ended WWI. The treaty blamed the war on Germany and punished them by disarming them, making them repay billions of dollars and taking away land. This created heavy German resentment that Hitler used to ignite WWII.

Question 2

League of Nations

Answer 2

Peace keeping organization after WWI. Was unsuccessful.

Question 3

Red Scare

Answer 3

Fear of communism in the U.S. during the 1920’s

Question 4

War Reparations

Answer 4

High payments Germany had to make because it lost WWI.

Question 5

Appeasement

Answer 5

Giving in to Hitler’s demands in hopes he would be satisfied and prevent a war.

Question 6

Pearl Harbor

Answer 6

US naval base that was attacked which led to the United States’ involvement in WWII.

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II

Question 8

NATO

Answer 8

Alliance of democratic nations following WWII.

Question 9

United Nations

Answer 9

Peace keeping organization created after WWII. The US joined this organization.

Question 10

HOLOCAUST

Answer 10

Hitler’s mass extermination of the Jews and other undesirables.

Question 11

Israel

Answer 11

New nations created for Jews fleeing Europe during WWII.

Question 12

Fourteen Points

Answer 12

Wilson’s plan for peace following WWI.

Question 13

Japanese Internment Camps

Answer 13

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast.

Question 14

Federal Reserve System

Answer 14

The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises.

Question 15

Panama Canal

Answer 15

One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduced the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America

Question 16

Immigration

Answer 16

the action of COMING to live permanently in a foreign country.

Question 17

Emigration

Answer 17

the act of LEAVING one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

Question 18

Weimar Republic

Answer 18

Germany’s government from 1919 to 1933, the period after World War I until the rise of Nazi Germany. It was named after the town of Weimar where Germany’s new government was formed by a national assembly after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated