World War II Vocabulary Quiz

Also known as the Allied powers, and they were Great Britain, France, and the Russian Empire. Other countries joined later on such as the U.S.

• Allies
• Atlantic Charter
• Axis Powers
• Democracy

It is hostility toward or discrimination against Jews.

• Anti-Semitic
• Atomic bomb
• Battle of Britain
• Dictatorship

A foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation in order to prevent war. 

• Appeasement
• Auschwitz
• Battle of Midway
• Fascism

Name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran.

• Aryan race
• Axis Powers
• Blitzkrieg
• Genocide

A weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission of a heavy element.

• Atomic bomb
• Battle of Britain
• Communism
• Imperialism

Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp.

• Auschwitz
• Communism
• Concentration camps
• Island hopping

A coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that all opposed the Allied powers during WW2.

• Axis Powers
• Concentration camps
• Island hopping
• Isolationism

The successful defense of Great Brittain against the raid of the German Air Force.

• Battle of Britain
• D-Day
• Isolationism
• Pearl Harbor

A naval battle that was fought almost entirely with aircraft. The U.S. destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier and most of it’s best air fighters.

• Battle of Midway
• Democracy
• Kamikaze
• Propaganda

MIlitary tactic calculated to create psychological shock and resultant disorganization in enemy forces through the element of surprise, speed, and superiority in firepower.

• Blitzkrieg
• Dictatorship
• Maginot Line
• Social Darwinism