FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT WWII

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT WWII

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Question 1: isolationism

Answer:

the belief that a country should not be involved with other countries

Question 2: Axis Powers

Answer:

Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II, aka the "bad guys"

Question 3: radar

Answer:

a device that sends out radio waves for finding out the position and sped of a moving object

Question 4: Holocaust

Answer:

the murder of about 12 million people by the Nazis during World War II

Question 5: economic interdependence

Answer:

when two or more countries need to trade with one another to meet their needs

Question 6: Allies

Answer:

the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) during World War II, aka the "good guys"

Question 7: atomic bomb

Answer:

a bomb deriving its destructive power from the release of nuclear energy

Question 8: rationing

Answer:

controlling the amount of (something, such as gasoline or food) that people are allowed to have especially when there is not enough of it

Question 9: appeasement

Answer:

avoiding war by meeting the demands of a threatening nation

Question 10: front

Answer:

an area where military forces are fighting

Question 11: internment camp

Answer:

Japanese Americans were put into these camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II

Question 12: concentration camps

Answer:

a type of prison where the Nazis kept large numbers of Jewish people during World War II - people there were treated very badly and often killed

Question 13: Lend-lease

Answer:

policy that allowed Great Britain to borrow military supplies from the United States during World War II

Question 14: propaganda

Answer:

ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc

Question 15: victory garden

Answer:

effort on the home front to grow a family's food so that farm goods could be sent to soldiers overseas.

Question 16: theater

Answer:

a large area where important events or actions occur in a war

Question 17: island hopping

Answer:

the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific to prepare for a land invasion of Japan

Question 18: Manhattan Project

Answer:

A secret project by the United States government to create an atomic bomb during World War II

Question 19: dictator

Answer:

a ruler with absolute power

Question 20: blitzkrieg

Answer:

a sudden and overwhelming military attack. the German words for "lightning war"

Question 21: economic depression

Answer:

a period of time in which there is little economic activity and many people do not have jobs

Question 22: home front

Answer:

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

Question 23: totalitarianism

Answer:

a system of government that controls the people of a country in a very strict way with complete power that cannot be opposed

Question 24: nation-state

Answer:

a group of people who share the same history, traditions, or language that live in a particular area under one government