WorksheetsWorld War II Vocabulary (World History)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is "the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war"?
appeasement
isolationism
nonaggression pact
armistice
Fill in the blank: What were "in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936"? (a) Powers
What were "the group of nations—including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States—that opposed the Axis Powers in World War II"?
(a)
What is "a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries"?
appeasement
isolationism
nonaggression pact
armistice
Fill in the blank: What was "the Third German Empire,
established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s"? Third ______
Reich
German State
Politico
Land
Blitz
What was "a 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler’s pledge to respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders"?
Munich Conference
Berlin Conference
Paris Conference
Prague Conference
Rome Conference
What is "an agreement in which nations promise not
to attack one another"?
appeasement
isolationism
nonaggression pact
armistice
What was "“lightning war”—a
form of warfare in which surprise attacks with
fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive
attacks with infantry forces"?
(a)
What was "Hitler’s program of
systematically killing the entire Jewish people"?
Final Solution
Holocaust
Genocide
Kristallnacht
Armenian Massacre
What was "the systematic killing of an entire people"?
Final Solution
Holocaust
Genocide
Kristallnacht
Armenian Massacre
What was "a mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried
out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II"?
Final Solution
Holocaust
Genocide
Kristallnacht
Armenian Massacre
What were "city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live"?
Ghetto
Slums
Concentration Camps
Barrio
What were "during World War II, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them"?
Kamikaze
Dare-Devil
Foolhardy
Suicide Bomber
Swazi
What were "a series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity"?
Nuremberg Trials
Munich Trials
Berlin Trials
Frankfort Trials
Fill in the blank: What was "June 6, 1944—the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during World War II"? (a) Day
