WW2 Vocab

What is the name for the Nazi’s “Final Solution” in which they attempted a genocide against European Jews? 

• Holocaust

• Japanese Internment Camps

• Nazi Party

Many American and Filipino soldiers taken prisoner by Japanese Forces in the Philippines die while traveling to prison camps on the island

• D-Day

  
  

• Battle of Midway

• Manhattan Project

• Bataan Death March

An ____________ has descended over the continent; divided Europe between free & communist countries

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Great Wall

• Iron Blanket

trials at which Nazi leaders were judged for war crimes, including crimes against humanity

• Nuremberg Trials

• Yalta Conference

• Executive Order 9066

• Navajo Code Talkers

What major axis power leader had the vision of a “master race,” thus being one motivator for imperializing?

• Joseph Stalin

• Harry Truman

• Adolf Hitler

• Benito Mussolini

The word appeasement refers to…

• To please countries wants to refrain from war

• To remain at peace with other countries to refrain from war

• To refuse peace to start war

• To refuse to repair damage caused by war

What is the name of the agreement between France, Germany, and England trying to prevent was by giving Germany Czechoslovakia?

• the Manchu Pack

• the Munich Pact

• the Mandarin Pact

• the Mussolini Doctrine

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

• Operation Overlord

• Operation Barbarossa

• Operation Torch

• Operation Market Garden

Which conference was held in 1945 to discuss the post-war reorganization of Europe?

• Yalta Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• Tehran Conference

• Geneva Conference

What was the primary purpose of the Lend-Lease Act during World War II?

• To provide military aid to allies

• To lease land for military bases

• To lend money to war-torn countries

• To lease equipment to neutral countries