Laws/Government Terms

Question 1

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 1

• The war guilt clause blamed Germany for starting WWI (which they didn’t!)
• “Peace without victory” was not achieved

Question 2

League of Nations

Answer 2

• An international organization to help keep peace around the world
• Worked to solve problems before war happened
• broke apart to form the UN

Question 3

National Socialist German Party (Nazis)

Answer 3

• the socialist German party
• hitler was a member
• Aryan superiority

Question 4

Third Reich

Answer 4

The government in Germany during Nazi rule

Question 5

Munich Pact

Answer 5

Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia where German-speaking people lived

Question 6

Non-aggression Pact of 1939

Answer 6

• Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia signed this agreeing to not attack each other for 10 years
• because their goals in the war would become much more difficult if they were enemies at that time

Question 7

Luftwaffe

Answer 7

The “Air Force” of the Germans during WWII

Question 8

Axis Powers

Answer 8

The Axis powers, also known as the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied Powers.

Question 9

Neutrality Acts

Answer 9

Laws in the U.S. to limit U.S. involvement in future wars

Question 10

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 10

the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
(Without “declaring war”)

Question 11

Potsdam Confrence

Answer 11

Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to discuss the terms at the end of WWII

Question 12

Tuskegee airmen

Answer 12

a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II.

Question 13

Korematsu Vs. United States

Answer 13

Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.

Question 14

Executive order 9066

Answer 14

ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.

Question 15

Executive order 8802

Answer 15

to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry.

Question 16

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

Answer 16

a series of trials of accused Nazi war criminals, conducted by a U.S., French, and Soviet military tribunal based in Nuremberg

Question 17

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 17

• adopted by UN

- the articles inside of the declaration are considered international law

Question 18

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 18

provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II

Question 19

Geneva Conventions

Answer 19

a series of treaties on the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war (POWs) and soldiers who are otherwise rendered hors de combat, or incapable of fighting.