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World War II Vocabulary (World History)

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is "the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war"?

a)

appeasement

b)

isolationism

c)

nonaggression pact

d)

armistice

2.

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

3.

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)  

4.

What is "a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries"?

a)

appeasement

b)

isolationism

c)

nonaggression pact

d)

armistice

5.

Fill in the blank: What was "the Third German Empire,

established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s"? Third ______

a)

Reich

b)

German State

c)

Politico

d)

Land

e)

Blitz

6.

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"?

a)

Munich Conference

b)

Berlin Conference

c)

Paris Conference

d)

Prague Conference

e)

Rome Conference

7.

What is "an agreement in which nations promise not

to attack one another"?

a)

appeasement

b)

isolationism

c)

nonaggression pact

d)

armistice

8.

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)  

9.

What was "Hitler’s program of

systematically killing the entire Jewish people"?

a)

Final Solution

b)

Holocaust

c)

Genocide

d)

Kristallnacht

e)

Armenian Massacre

10.

What was "the systematic killing of an entire people"?

a)

Final Solution

b)

Holocaust

c)

Genocide

d)

Kristallnacht

e)

Armenian Massacre

11.

What was "a mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried

out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II"?

a)

Final Solution

b)

Holocaust

c)

Genocide

d)

Kristallnacht

e)

Armenian Massacre

12.

What were "city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live"?

a)

Ghetto

b)

Slums

c)

Concentration Camps

d)

Barrio

13.

What were "during World War II, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them"?

a)

Kamikaze

b)

Dare-Devil

c)

Foolhardy

d)

Suicide Bomber

e)

Swazi

14.

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"?

a)

Nuremberg Trials

b)

Munich Trials

c)

Berlin Trials

d)

Frankfort Trials

15.

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