World War Two Vocabulary

Germany's battle tactic of quickly overwhelming the opposition is referred to as

• kamikaze

• blitzkrieg

• island-hopping

• total war

An agreement between two or more nations to further common interests like defense or trade is referred to as a(n)

• alliance

• treaty

• disunion

• confederation

What strategy did the US use to defeat Japan?

• Blitzkrieg

• Island Hopping

• Atomic Bombs

• No real strategy was needed

The practice of giving a dictator what he wants is known as what?

• Appeasement

• Gratitude

• Entitlement

• Encouragement

Camps for prisoners generally in wartime. Japanese-Americans were put in these

• Interment Camps
• Interment Prisons

Deliberate killing of a large group of people

• Genocide
• Mass Killing
• Holocaust

Project that produced the first nuclear weapons

• Manhattan Project
• Detroit Project
• New York Project

A way to get money from the public for the war

• War Bonds
• Germany Bonds
• Public War Effort

What is Japanese Internment?

• The Japanese captured the West Coast of the U.S.
• people of Chinese ancestry were evacuated to 10 internment camps from the West Coast-seen as a threat
• Italian, German and Japanese citizens arrested for their own saftey
• people of Japanese ancestry were evacuated to 10 internment camps from the West Coast-seen as a threat

Hitler's "lightning war" tactics were also known as the:

• Bolshevik

• Blitzkreig

• Bedlam in Belgium

• Birkenbier