World War II Vocabulary

The leader of the Nazi party and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945

• Napoleon

• Adolf Hitler

• Harry Truman

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

What is Pearl Harbor?

• a neighborhood in New York City

• A country in England

• a German submarine

• a major U.S. navy base in Hawaii; the Japanese bombed it in 1941

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president of the ____ during World War II?

This form of government has a single leader in total control

• socialism

• independent

• fascism

• democracy

a person who is not a member of the military is a ​ (a)   ​

• civilian
• isolationism
• Adolf Hitler
• fascism

Match the following

• leader of Nazi Germany

• D-Day

• U.S. President who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan

• Harry Truman

• a major U.S. Navy base in Hawaii

• Adolf Hitler

• leader of the U.S. during World War II

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• In World War II, the day the Allied forces started the invasion of France

• Pearl Harbor

atomic bomb

• a powerful bomb that gets its power from splitting atoms

• a type of German submarine

• a bomb used in the Civil War

Define: Isolationism

• a policy of working closely with other countries

• a policy of not interfering with the concerns of other countries

• a form of government in which a single leader has total control

• a form of government in which all citizens have a voice in their government

Define a U-boat

• the day the U.S. and allied forces started the invasion of France in 1944.

• a powerful, destructive bomb

• a major U.S. Navy base in Hawaii

• a German submarine

Many American lives were lost and ships were destroyed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

• TRUE

• FALSE