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WorksheetsWWII Vocabulary
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Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.
Axis Powers
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Austin Powers
To incorporate (territory) into the domain of a city, country, or state:
Annex
Build
Grab
Conquer
Anti-Semitism
Hatred towards Germans
Hatred towards Americans
Hatred towards Jews
Hatreds towards Japanese
The policy of tolerating the demands of a potentially hostile (unfriendly) nation in the hope of maintaining peace and avoid conflict
Cowardice
Appeasement
Abandonment
Passivist
Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Central Powers
Austin Powers
"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939
Shock & Awe
Kamikaze
Kristallnacht
Blitzkrieg
1939; Britain and France could buy goods from the United States if they paid in full and transported them.
Pick & Save
Bag & Buy
Cash & Carry
Buy & Fly
Protective measures in case of attack. (For example, during WWII volunteers scanned the skies for enemy aircraft and coastal cities enforced blackouts)
Civil Patrol
National Guard
Policing
Civil Defense
Special code based on the Navajo language used to send messages during WWII. The Japanese never broke the code.
Secret Code
Navajo Code
Code Talker
War Code
Prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.
Internment Camps
Concentration Camps
Political Camps
Prison Camps
A ruler who has complete power over a country
President
Monarchy
Dictator
Parliament
Disarmament
Giving up military location
Giving up military weapons
Giving up military personnel
Giving up military secrets
A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.
Democracy
Socialism
Fascism
Anarchy
Wiping out an entire group of people
Biocide
Homocide
Genocide
Suicide
The systematic extermination of millions of European Jews, as well as Roma, Slavs, intellectuals, homosexuals, and political dissidents, by the Nazis and their allies during World War II.
Holocaust
Genocide
Slaughter
Final Solution
Relocation camps for Japanese-Americans during WWII
Concentration Camps
Internment Camps
Immigrant Camps
POW Camps
A law passed in 1941 that allowed the United States to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the Axis powers
Buy Now-Pay Later
Layaway
Lend-Lease
Promised-Payment
Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships.
Kamikazee
Kamakaze
Kamakazee
Kamikaze
A secret research and development project of the US to develop the atomic bomb. Its success granted the US the bombs that ended the war with Japan as well as ushering the country into the atomic era
Chicago Project
Manhattan Project
Oklahoma Project
U.S. Project
Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s.
Fascism
Socialism
Totalitarianism
Nazism
A limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use
Rationing
Saving
Fasting
Limiting
Military Blockade
Confrontation
Dissention
Siege
Skirmish
Tuskegee Airmen
332 Fighter Group famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes. African American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee flying school.
332 Fighter Group famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes. Asian American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee flying school.
332 Fighter Group famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes. Mexican American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee flying school.
332 Fighter Group famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes. Native American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee flying school.
A global association formed in 1919 to promote peace. It was later replaced by the United Nations in 1945
World Nations
Convention of Nations
League of Nations
Founding of Nations
May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered
V-E Day
V-J Day
Armistice Day
Veterans Day
"Victory over Japan day" is the celebration of the Surrender of Japan, which was initially announced on August 15, 1945
V-E Day
V-J Day
Armistice Day
Veterans Day
WACs
Women's Army Corps
Women's Airforce Corps
Women's Allied Corps
Women's American Corps
WAVEs
Women Appointed for Veteran Emergency Service
Women Appointed for Victory in Emergency Coast Guard Service
Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service in the Navy
Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service in the Marines
