World War 2

Question 1

Granting concessions to keep peace.

Answer 1

Appeasement

Question 2

Displaying prejudice towards Jewish people.

Answer 2

Anti-Semitic

Question 3

Deliberate killing of large groups of people based on nationality, religious, or ethnic differences.

Answer 3

Genocide

Question 4

German-Austrian Unification.

Answer 4

Anschluss

Question 5

A collection of military weapons/equipment.

Answer 5

Arsenal

Question 6

Violent or aggressive.

Answer 6

Belligerent

Question 7

Agreement between Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France to preserve peace - gave Germany the Sudetenland.

Answer 7

Munich Agreement

Question 8

Political movement that stressed extreme nationalism and autocratic rule.

Answer 8

Fascism

Question 9

Encouraged support of the war effort in the US during WWII.

Answer 9

Office of War Information

Question 10

Tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets.

Answer 10

Strategic Bombing

Question 11

Created to keep America out of the war - ended up giving weapons and supplies to the Allied side.

Answer 11

Neutrality Acts

Question 12

“Lightning War” emphasized speed and firepower by the German Army.

Answer 12

Blitzkrieg

Question 13

German term for “Living Space”.

Answer 13

Lebensraum

Question 14

Allowed FDR to sell or lend supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the U.S.

Answer 14

Lend-Lease Act

Question 15

Allied nations could pay cash for American supplies but had to transport items themselves.

Answer 15

Cash-Carry

Question 16

Managed American wartime production.

Answer 16

War Production Board

Question 17

Placed Japanese-Americans in camps on the American west coast.

Answer 17

Executive Order 9066

Question 18

Created to help victims of Axis persecution.

Answer 18

War Refugee Board

Question 19

Used by the Nazis to imprison “undesirables”.

Answer 19

Concentration Camps

Question 20

Part of the Final Solution to eradicate “undesirable” members in Nazi occupied Europe.

Answer 20

Death Camps

Question 21

Poor and overcrowded towns where Nazis kept “undesirables”.

Answer 21

Ghettos

Question 22

Members of the Tripartite Pact - Italy, Germany, and Japan.

Answer 22

Axis Powers

Question 23

France, Great Britain, USSR, USA

Answer 23

Allied Powers

Question 24

Allied strategy against the Japanese were heavily defended islands were bypassed in favor of lightly defended islands.

Answer 24

Island Hopping

Question 25

Written by Churchill and Roosevelt to outline their goals for the end of WWII.

Answer 25

Atlantic Charter

Question 26

Japanese tactic of flying a plane into an Allied ship.

Answer 26

Kamikaze

Question 27

Secretly developed the atomic bomb.

Answer 27

Manhattan Project

Question 28

US Army’s female portion where women served in non-combat roles.

Answer 28

Women’s Army Corps

Question 29

Giving up completely without any concessions.

Answer 29

Unconditional Surrender

Question 30

Dropping massive amounts of bombs to cause maximum damage.

Answer 30

Saturation Bombing

Question 31

Nazi plan to eradicate those deemed “undesirables”.

Answer 31

Final Solution

Question 32

Organized in 1945 to promote world peace.

Answer 32

United Nations

Question 33

Symbolized American war aims to allow for: freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

Answer 33

Four Freedoms

Question 34

Held after the war to convict Nazi leadership for their war crimes.

Answer 34

Nuremberg Trial

Question 35

Fair hiring practices in the Federal Government.

Answer 35

Executive Order 8802

Question 36

Dropped on Hiroshima.

Answer 36

Little Boy

Question 37

Dropped on Nagasaki.

Answer 37

Fat Man