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World War II

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Deliberate murder of a whole community or race

a)

War Bonds

b)

Massacre

c)

Genocide

d)

Embargo

2.

Killing of a large number of people at the same time in a violent or cruel way

a)

Massacre

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Internment

d)

Holocaust

3.

Not supporting either side in an argument, fight, war, etc.

a)

Rationing

b)

Liberation

c)

Appeasement

d)

Neutral

4.

People who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in a war in a foreign country

a)

Embargo

b)

Allied Powers

c)

Home Front

d)

Front

5.

Limiting the amount of food, gas, or other necessary things that each person is allowed to have or buy when there is not enough of them

a)

Rationing

b)

Encoding

c)

Embargo

d)

Communism

6.

Violence and fighting in a community, brought on by racial conflicts and hatred

a)

Fascist

b)

Theater

c)

Holocaust

d)

Race riots

7.

Countries united together to fight Axis Powers in World War II (Great Britain, United States, Soviet Union)

a)

Central powers

b)

Axis Powers

c)

Allied powers

d)

Fascist

8.

Countries united to fight the Allied Powers in World War II

a)

Allied Powers

b)

Central Powers

c)

Holocaust

d)

Axis Powers

9.

Killing by the Nazis of millions of Jews during the Second World War

a)

Nuremberg Trials

b)

Massacre

c)

Holocaust

d)

Genocide

10.

A fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory

a)

Island Hopping

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Trade sanctions

d)

Neutrality

11.

Practice of putting people (Japanese, Germans, Italians) in prison for political reasons during WWII

a)

Scarce goods

b)

Appeasement

c)

Theater

d)

Internment

12.

Native-born citizen of the United States whose parents were Japanese immigrants

a)

Nisei

b)

Fascist

c)

Neutrality

d)

Navajo Code Talkers

13.

Military strategy used by the Allies in World War II concentrating on Japanese island which were not well defended

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

Island Hopping

c)

Mobilization

d)

Internment

14.

Nazi led violence against Jews and their property in Germany and Austria on the night of November 9-10, 1938

a)

Mobilization

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Kristallnacht

d)

Nuremberg Trials

15.

Sold by a government to citizens to help fund military operations during times of war

a)

Scarce Goods

b)

Embargo

c)

Home Front

d)

War bonds

16.

Bilingual Navajo speakers recruited during World War Ii by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater

a)

Navajo Code Talkers

b)

Encoding

c)

Decoding

d)

Military Units

17.

Policy of giving in to the demands of a hostile or aggressive power in an attempt to keep the peace

a)

Liberation

b)

Internment

c)

Appeasement

d)

Totalitarianism

18.

The entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations

a)

Front

b)

Home Front

c)

War Bonds

d)

Theater

19.

Restrictions put in place against target countries with the aim of maintaining or restoring international peace and security

a)

Encoding

b)

Embargo

c)

Theater

d)

Trade Sanctions

20.

The action of transforming a message into code

a)

Encoding

b)

Liberation

c)

Decoding

d)

Embargo

21.

An item produced with society’s limited resources for the purpose of satisfying wants and needs; rare item.

a)

Mobilization

b)

Scarce Goods

c)

Appeasement

d)

Neutrality

22.

To free a place or the people from the political or military control of another country, area, or group of people

a)

Rationing

b)

Embargo

c)

Communism

d)

Liberation

23.

A group within the military that has a designated size and a specific combat or support role; Regiment, Brigade, Battalion, Company, Squad

a)

Military Units

b)

Neutrality

c)

Totalitarianism

d)

Internment

24.

To bring or move people together for action politically or militarily

a)

Mobilization

b)

Home Front

c)

Island Hopping

d)

Internment

25.

A system of government where one political party controls everything, including your public and private life.

a)

Communism

b)

Totalitarianism

c)

Rationing

d)

Nisei

26.

Political belief that all people are equal and that workers should control the means of producing things

a)

Totalitarianism

b)

Communism

c)

Mobilization

d)

Internment

27.

A supporter of fascism, A type of government in which a dictator controls people's lives and where disagreeing with the government is not allowed

a)

Communism

b)

Totalitarianism

c)

Mobilization

d)

Fascist

28.

An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country

a)

Decoding

b)

Race Riots

c)

Holocaust

d)

Embargo

29.

Series of trials in Nuremberg, Germany where former Nazi leaders were charged and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal

a)

Kristallnacht

b)

Appeasement

c)

Nuremberg Trials

d)

Blitzkrieg