WWII Vocabulary & Leaders

Match the following

• Code Talker

• Germany, Italy, Japan

• Anti-Semitism

• hatred of Jewish people

• Holocaust

• U.S., Great Britain, France, & Soviet Union

• Allies

• a member of the Navajo nation who used his tribe's language as a code to send military messages

• Axis

• Mass genocide of Jews and other minorities by German Nazi's

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the following

• Dictator

• an electric system that uses sound to find distant and approaching objects

• Radar

• a ruler who has total power over a country

• Island Hopping

• a U.S. military strategy used in the Pacific

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Match the following

• Atomic Bomb

• Guarded camps away from the Pacific Coast that housed Japanese Americans

• Internment Camp

• a type of bomb that uses atomic reactions to create a massive explosion

• D-Day

• the day when Allied forces landed on the beaches of France to attack the Germans

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the following leaders

• Joseph Stalin

• Dictator of Italy

• Benito Mussolini

• British Prime Minister

• Winston Churchill

• Soviet Union communist leader

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

Match the following

• Hideki Tojo

• Dictator of Germany

• Adolf Hitler

• U.S. President from 1933-1945

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Military leader of Japan

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C