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World War II Unit Vocabulary

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Prime minister of Great Britain during WWII

a)

Neville Chamberlain

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Joseph Stalin

2.

Where Nazi soldiers were put on trial by judges from Allied powers for their crimes committed during WWII and the Holocaust

a)

Nuremberg Trials

b)

Diaspora Trials

c)

Allied Trials

d)

Marshall Plan Trials

3.

Plan created by the U.S. to help strengthen Western European economies after WWII

a)

Treaty of Versailles

b)

Tokyo Agreement

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

Manhattan Project

4.

Battle fought in the USSR in 1943 on the eastern front of WWII

a)

Battle of Britain

b)

Battle of Stalingrad

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of Dunkirk

5.

Permanent international organization of countries created to handle future problems and lessen the chance of war

a)

League of Nations

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO)

d)

United Nations

6.

Battle fought in Britain; Britain was attacked by the German air force; the use of radar allowed the British to fight back

a)

Battle of Britain

b)

Battle of Stalingrad

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of Dunkirk

7.

Battle fought in the Pacific Theatre of WWII; Allied victory here swings momentum in their favor in the Pacific

a)

Battle of Britain

b)

Battle of Stalingrad

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of Dunkirk

8.

Established by democracies in North America and W. Europe to strengthen ties between member states; designed to counteract the Warsaw Pact

a)

North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO)

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

League of Nations

d)

United Nations

9.

Means “lightning war”; describes the German war strategy during WWII

a)

Mein Kampf

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Luftwaffe

d)

Deutschland uber alles

10.

Dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII

a)

Vladimir Lenin

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Benito Mussolini

11.

The mass murder of Jews (and other “undesirables”) by Nazi Germany between 1941-1945; resulted in the death of more than 6 million Jews

a)

Kristallnacht

b)

Genocide

c)

The Final Solution

d)

The Holocaust

12.

Site of attack by Japanese kamikaze forces; causes U.S. to enter into WWII

a)

Lusitania

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Zimmerman

d)

Normandy

13.

Systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group

a)

The Holocaust

b)

Genocide

c)

The Final Solution

d)

Diaspora

14.

Nazi dictator of Germany during WWII

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Hideki Tojo

d)

Joseph Stalin

15.

Emperor of Japan during (and before and after) WWII

a)

Chiang Kai-shek

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Hideki Tojo

d)

Hirohito

16.

Japanese military general and prime minister; ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor

a)

Hirohito

b)

Sun Yat-sin

c)

Hideki Tojo

d)

Kim Jung Il

17.

Refusal to participate in war

a)

Isolationism

b)

Pacifism

c)

Alliance systems

d)

Diplomacy

18.

Signed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states in response to NATO’s formation

a)

United Nations Agreement

b)

North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO)

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Warsaw Pact

19.

Metaphorical “wall” between non-Communist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe in place

after WWII

a)

Berlin Wall

b)

Communist Wall

c)

Iron Curtain

d)

Ideological Divide

20.

The decision to begin the mass killing of Jews and other “undesirable” populations at concentration camps

a)

The Final Solution

b)

The Holocaust

c)

Beer Hall Putsch

d)

Genocide

21.

Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the first atomic bombs

a)

Hiroshima and Berlin

b)

Nagasaki and Pearl Harbor

c)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

d)

Nagasaki and Tokyo

22.

U.S. president during WWII until his death in 1945

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

Harry Truman

23.

Allied invasion of France; happens on June 6, 1944

a)

D-Day

b)

Mediterranean Invasion

c)

Battle of Britain

d)

Free France Battle

24.

U.S. president at the end of WWII; in power after his predecessor’s death

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

Woodrow Wilson

25.

Three American military generals during WWII

a)

Roosevelt, Wilson, and Truman

b)

Eisenhower, Truman, and Stalin

c)

MacArthur, Marshall, and Eisenhower

d)

Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini