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VOCAB- WORLD WAR II EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Nazi

Answer:

a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party

Question 2: Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer:

agreement signed between Hitler and Stalin in 1939 in which the two dictators agreed not to attack each other

Question 3: concentration camps

Answer:

prison camps for civilians who are considered enemies of the state

Question 4: Good Neighbor Policy

Answer:

President Franklin Roosevelt's policy intended to strengthen friendly relations with Latin America

Question 5: scapegoat

Answer:

a person or group on whom to blame problems

Question 6: Lend-Lease Act

Answer:

during World War II, the law that allowed the United States to sell arms and equipment to Britain

Question 7: Battle of the Bulge

Answer:

German counterattack in December 1944 that temporarily slowed the Allied invasion of Germany

Question 8: Allies

Answer:

World War II military alliance of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and 45 other countries

Question 9: bracero program

Answer:

recruitment of Mexican laborers to work in the United States during World War II

Question 10: Operation Overlord

Answer:

code name for the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944

Question 11: D-Day

Answer:

day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces

Question 12: Nuremburg Trails

Answer:

Nazi war crimes trails held in 1945 and 1946

Question 13: compensation

Answer:

repayment for losses

Question 14: Atlantic Charter

Answer:

a 1941 program developed by the United States and Britain that set goals for the postwar world

Question 15: War Production Board

Answer:

government agency created during World War II to help factories shift from making consumer goods to making war materials

Question 16: Rosie the Riveter

Answer:

fictional factory worker who became a symbol of American women's comtribution to the war effort during World War II

Question 17: Holocaust

Answer:

slaughter of Europe's Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II

Question 18: Navajo code-talkers

Answer:

during World War II, Navajo soldiers who used their own language to radio vital messages during the island-hopping campaign

Question 19: Potsdam Declaration

Answer:

message sent by the Allies in July 1945 calling for Japanese surrender

Question 20: "Double V" campaign

Answer:

African American civil rights campaign during World War II

Question 21: Neutrality Acts

Answer:

series of laws passed by Congress in 1935 that banned arms sales or loans to countries at war

Question 22: Battle of Britain

Answer:

Germany's failed attempt to subdue Britain in 1940 in preparation for invasion

Question 23: blitzkrieg

Answer:

the swift attacks lauched by Germany in World War II

Question 24: rationing

Answer:

limitations on the amount of certain goods that people can buy

Question 25: victory garden

Answer:

during World War II, vegetable garden planted to combat food shortages in the United States

Question 26: appeasement

Answer:

practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war

Question 27: Munich Conference

Answer:

a 1938 meeting of the leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany at which an agreement was signed giving part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler

Question 28: Battle of Midway

Answer:

a 1942 battle in the Pacific during which American planes sank four Japanese aircraft carriers