WW2 Vocabulary

What is “blitzkrieg?”

• "Lightning War"

• "Blow Up War"

• "Bombing War"

• "Light Up War"

What was the name for the Japanese pilots that crashed their planes into U.S. ships on purpose, fully expecting to die?

• Kawanza Pilots

• Kombucha Pilots

• Kamikaze Pilots

• Japanese Fighter Pilots

A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hope of avoiding war.

• Fascism

• Totalitarianism

• Democracy

• Appeasement

Allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S.

• Blitzkrieg

• Collaboration

• Lend-Lease Act

• Totalitarianism

Traitorous cooperation with the enemy

• Annexation

• Blitzkrieg

• Collaboration

• Toltalitarianism

What is the Lend-Lease Act?

• Allowed Germany to provide war materials to the Axis Powers without being directly involved in the war

• Allowed the United States to provide war materials to the Allied Powers without being directly involved in the war

• Allowed the United States to provide war materials to the Axis Powers without being directly involved in the war

• Allowed Great Britain to provide war materials to the Allied Powers without being directly involved in the war

In 1944, the US followed what kind of campaign?

• Island Skipping

• Island Hopping

• Travel Plan

• Island Moving

What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II?

• Operation Overlord

• Operation Neptune

• Operation Torch

• Operation Market Garden

Which term describes the systematic genocide of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II?

• Holocaust

• Blitzkrieg

• Final Solution

• Kristallnacht

What was the primary purpose of the Manhattan Project during World War II?

• To develop the atomic bomb

• To create a new type of aircraft

• To establish a new military base

• To train special forces