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WorksheetsWorld War II Unit Vocabulary
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Worksheet time: 13mins
Prime minister of Great Britain during WWII
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Woodrow Wilson
Joseph Stalin
Where Nazi soldiers were put on trial by judges from Allied powers for their crimes committed during WWII and the Holocaust
Nuremberg Trials
Diaspora Trials
Allied Trials
Marshall Plan Trials
Plan created by the U.S. to help strengthen Western European economies after WWII
Treaty of Versailles
Tokyo Agreement
Marshall Plan
Manhattan Project
Battle fought in the USSR in 1943 on the eastern front of WWII
Battle of Britain
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Midway
Battle of Dunkirk
Permanent international organization of countries created to handle future problems and lessen the chance of war
League of Nations
Warsaw Pact
North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO)
United Nations
Battle fought in Britain; Britain was attacked by the German air force; the use of radar allowed the British to fight back
Battle of Britain
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Midway
Battle of Dunkirk
Battle fought in the Pacific Theatre of WWII; Allied victory here swings momentum in their favor in the Pacific
Battle of Britain
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Midway
Battle of Dunkirk
Established by democracies in North America and W. Europe to strengthen ties between member states; designed to counteract the Warsaw Pact
North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO)
Warsaw Pact
League of Nations
United Nations
Means “lightning war”; describes the German war strategy during WWII
Mein Kampf
Blitzkrieg
Luftwaffe
Deutschland uber alles
Dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII
Vladimir Lenin
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
The mass murder of Jews (and other “undesirables”) by Nazi Germany between 1941-1945; resulted in the death of more than 6 million Jews
Kristallnacht
Genocide
The Final Solution
The Holocaust
Site of attack by Japanese kamikaze forces; causes U.S. to enter into WWII
Lusitania
Pearl Harbor
Zimmerman
Normandy
Systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group
The Holocaust
Genocide
The Final Solution
Diaspora
Nazi dictator of Germany during WWII
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hideki Tojo
Joseph Stalin
Emperor of Japan during (and before and after) WWII
Chiang Kai-shek
Benito Mussolini
Hideki Tojo
Hirohito
Japanese military general and prime minister; ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor
Hirohito
Sun Yat-sin
Hideki Tojo
Kim Jung Il
Refusal to participate in war
Isolationism
Pacifism
Alliance systems
Diplomacy
Signed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states in response to NATO’s formation
United Nations Agreement
North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO)
Treaty of Versailles
Warsaw Pact
Metaphorical “wall” between non-Communist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe in place
after WWII
Berlin Wall
Communist Wall
Iron Curtain
Ideological Divide
The decision to begin the mass killing of Jews and other “undesirable” populations at concentration camps
The Final Solution
The Holocaust
Beer Hall Putsch
Genocide
Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the first atomic bombs
Hiroshima and Berlin
Nagasaki and Pearl Harbor
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nagasaki and Tokyo
U.S. president during WWII until his death in 1945
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Allied invasion of France; happens on June 6, 1944
D-Day
Mediterranean Invasion
Battle of Britain
Free France Battle
U.S. president at the end of WWII; in power after his predecessor’s death
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Woodrow Wilson
Three American military generals during WWII
Roosevelt, Wilson, and Truman
Eisenhower, Truman, and Stalin
MacArthur, Marshall, and Eisenhower
Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini
