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WWII Vocab

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

a form of government that exerts total control over its nation

a)

Totalitarianism

b)

Fascism

c)

Isolationism

d)

Communism

2.

a philosophy that emphasizes the importance of a national or ethnic group and the supreme authority of its leader

a)

Totalitarianism

b)

Fascism

c)

Isolationism

d)

Communism

3.

a term referring to the process of removing enemies and undesirable individuals from power

a)

Nazism

b)

Fascism

c)

Purge

d)

D-Day

4.

the form of fascism practiced by Hitler and his followers

a)

Nazism

b)

Communism

c)

Totalitarian

d)

Blitzkrieg

5.

A term describing the combined forces of Germany Italy and Japan

a)

Axis Powers

b)

Allied Powers

6.

this term describes the powers that opposed the Axis powers and included the United States and the Soviet Union

a)

Axis Powers

b)

Allied Powers

7.

a policy of giving in to a competitor’s or aggressor’s demands in order to keep the peace

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

Fascism

c)

Nazism

d)

Appeasement

8.

meaning lightning war this was a new military tactic in WWII that relied on a fast air and land combined strike to take the enemy by surprise

a)

Kristallnacht

b)

Purge

c)

Blitzkrieg

d)

Carpet bombing

9.

a supposedly independent country that is actually controlled by an outside force

a)

Selective Service and Training Act

b)

Puppet state

c)

Atlantic Charter

d)

Cash and carry

10.

a series of acts passed by Congress aimed at keeping the US from entering WWII

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Cash and carry

c)

Lend-Lease act

d)

Selective Service and Training Act

11.

permitted the trade of non-military goods to nations involved in the war if they paid cash and transported them themselves

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Lend-Lease act

c)

Cash and carry

d)

Selective Service and Training Act

12.

allowed the president to send aid to any country he believed necessary to American security

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Lend-Lease act

c)

Cash and carry

d)

Selective Service and Training Act

13.

required all males age 21 to 36 to register for military service and a limited number of men would be selected to serve from the pool

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Cash and carry

c)

Lend-Lease act

d)

Selective Service and Training Act

14.

or Government Issue was a name that American servicemen started calling themselves during WWII

a)

draftees

b)

Commis

c)

Nazis

d)

GI

15.

a set of principles agreed upon by the US and Britain that would become the basis for the United Nations

a)

Atlantic Charter

b)

Anti-Semitism

c)

Lend-Lease act

d)

Neutrality Acts

16.

a military tactic of spreading bombs over a wide area rather than trying to pinpoint a target

a)

Trench Warfre

b)

Carpet bombing

c)

Drone strikes

d)

Air raids

17.

the day the Allied Powers began to invade Western Europe

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

Puppet state

c)

D-Day

d)

Holocaust

18.

discrimination and hostilities directed at Jews

a)

Anti-Semitism

b)

Nazism

c)

Fascism

d)

Isolationism

19.

meaning night of broken glass when Nazis destroyed Jewish stores homes and synagogues

a)

D-Day

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Holocaust

d)

Kristallnacht

20.

referring to Nazi Germany’s systematic elimination of Jews and other undesirables

a)

Holocaust

b)

Anti-Semitism

c)

Concentration camp

d)

Kristallnacht