WorksheetsWorld War II vocab quiz
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
Codename for building of atomic bomb
operation overlord
manhattan project
Bracero Program
project 832
This was a new type of warfare that the Germans used to run through France and Poland in the early parts of WWII. It is also known as Lightning War.
Hitler bombing
Blitzkrieg
Ran-sacking
Sitzkrieg
Why was the Soviet Union not prepared to fight Germany during World War 2?
Nonaggression Pact
Stalin and Hitler were good friends
Extreme weather
Lebensraum
Which famous WWII leader was the dictator of the Soviet Union that had an alliance with Germany at the beginning of the war but later joined forces with the allied powers.
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany, became the 34th President of the United States
Harry S. Truman
Henry Kaiser
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
name of the genocide against the Jews by the Nazis
Holocaust
Night of Broken Glass
Great Purge
Concentration Camps
prohibits ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. It also set up the Fair Employment Practice Committee.
executive order 9906
executive order 8802
internment of the japanese
part of the lend-lease act
The functions of this were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.
Executive order 8802
Price control program
Bracero Program
Office of Price Administration
U.S. Supreme Court, on December 18, 1944, upheld (6–3) the conviction of Fred Korematsu—for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II.
Korematsu .vs United States
Executive Order 8802
Lebensraum
Internment camps
Influential political pressure group in the United States (1940–41) that opposed aid to the Allies in World War II because it feared direct American military involvement in the conflict.
Nonaggression Pact
Office of Americans First
America First Committee
Bracero Program
Series of laws passed by Congress to prevent the U.S. from entering wars based on economic considerations, like in WW I.
Neutrality Acts
Allied Powers Act
Lend-Lease Act
Arsenal of Democracy
The act of assembling and preparing for war
Demilitarization
Militarism
Mobilization
Genocide
