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WorksheetsWWII Vocab
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
a form of government that exerts total control over its nation
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Isolationism
Communism
a philosophy that emphasizes the importance of a national or ethnic group and the supreme authority of its leader
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Isolationism
Communism
a term referring to the process of removing enemies and undesirable individuals from power
Nazism
Fascism
Purge
D-Day
the form of fascism practiced by Hitler and his followers
Nazism
Communism
Totalitarian
Blitzkrieg
A term describing the combined forces of Germany Italy and Japan
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
this term describes the powers that opposed the Axis powers and included the United States and the Soviet Union
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
a policy of giving in to a competitor’s or aggressor’s demands in order to keep the peace
Blitzkrieg
Fascism
Nazism
Appeasement
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
Kristallnacht
Purge
Blitzkrieg
Carpet bombing
a supposedly independent country that is actually controlled by an outside force
Selective Service and Training Act
Puppet state
Atlantic Charter
Cash and carry
a series of acts passed by Congress aimed at keeping the US from entering WWII
Neutrality Acts
Cash and carry
Lend-Lease act
Selective Service and Training Act
permitted the trade of non-military goods to nations involved in the war if they paid cash and transported them themselves
Neutrality Acts
Lend-Lease act
Cash and carry
Selective Service and Training Act
allowed the president to send aid to any country he believed necessary to American security
Neutrality Acts
Lend-Lease act
Cash and carry
Selective Service and Training Act
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
Neutrality Acts
Cash and carry
Lend-Lease act
Selective Service and Training Act
or Government Issue was a name that American servicemen started calling themselves during WWII
draftees
Commis
Nazis
GI
a set of principles agreed upon by the US and Britain that would become the basis for the United Nations
Atlantic Charter
Anti-Semitism
Lend-Lease act
Neutrality Acts
a military tactic of spreading bombs over a wide area rather than trying to pinpoint a target
Trench Warfre
Carpet bombing
Drone strikes
Air raids
the day the Allied Powers began to invade Western Europe
Blitzkrieg
Puppet state
D-Day
Holocaust
discrimination and hostilities directed at Jews
Anti-Semitism
Nazism
Fascism
Isolationism
meaning night of broken glass when Nazis destroyed Jewish stores homes and synagogues
D-Day
Blitzkrieg
Holocaust
Kristallnacht
referring to Nazi Germany’s systematic elimination of Jews and other undesirables
Holocaust
Anti-Semitism
Concentration camp
Kristallnacht
