FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT WWII KEY TERMS EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT WWII KEY TERMS EXAM

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Question 1: Vichy France

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during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

Question 2: Genocide

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the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

Question 3: Scorched Earth Policy

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The Soviet Union's scorched-earth policy ensured that the Germans would have nothing to take over as they followed the retreating Russians. It also weakened the German front because their supply lines kept on growing thinner and thinner.

Question 4: Axis Powers

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Germany Italy Japan Soviet Union (earlier)

Question 5: Third Reich

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the common English names for Germany under the government of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP)

Question 6: Fascism

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a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. (Mussolini)

Question 7: OPA

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The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was in charge of rationing consumer goods such as sugar, coffee, shoes, household appliances, and other goods during World War II.

Question 8: Atlantic Charter

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Agreement between Churchill (U.K.) and FDR that once the war was over the 2 countries would try not to expand, would disarm the Axis Powers, and rid the world of fear and poverty.

Question 9: Appeasement

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"we'll give you this if you stop doing that" giving concessions in exchange for peace

Question 10: Nazi

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a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, led by Adolf Hitler. Advocated aggressive anti-Semitism, the natural supremacy of the German people, and the establishment of Germany by superior force as a dominant world power.

Question 11: Blitzkrieg

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means lightning war, named so because it included surprise attacks, "Lighting fast" rapid advances into enemy territory, with coordinated massive air attacks, which struck and shocked the enemy as if it was struck by lightning.

Question 12: Rosie the Riveter

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Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II,[1][2] many of whom worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and materiel

Question 13: Lend/Lease Act

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gave President Franklin

• Roosevelt the powers to sell, transfer, exchange, lend equipment to any country to help it defend

itself against the Axis powers.

Question 14: Brownshirts

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The Brownshirts were the SA, the Sturmabteilung, functioned as a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s.

Question 15: Holocaust

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the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War

Question 16: Mein Kampf

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book by Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology.

Question 17: Blackshirts

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The Black shirts was a nickname for Mussolini's paramilitaries - and also for those of Oswald Mosley. It was also used more generally as a nickname for Fascists. The Brown shirts were Hitler's paramilitaries - the Stormtroopers.

Question 18: Manhattan Project

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codename for a project conducted during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb. The project was led by the United States, and included participation from the United Kingdom and Canada.

Question 19: Allied Powers

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Great Britain France China United States (later) Soviet Union (later)

Question 20: Gestapo

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the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning in April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler

Question 21: Zoot-suit

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a suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat

Question 22: Kristallnacht

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the Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 to 10 November 1938

Question 23: Totalitarianism

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form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life