World War II Vocabulary (World History)

What is "the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war"?

• appeasement

• isolationism

• nonaggression pact

• armistice

Fill in the blank: What were "in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936"? __________ Powers

What were "the group of nations—including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States—that opposed the Axis Powers in World War II"?

What is "a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries"?

• appeasement

• isolationism

• nonaggression pact

• armistice

Fill in the blank: What was "the Third German Empire,

established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s"? Third ______

• Reich

• German State

• Politico

• Land

• Blitz

What was "a 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler’s pledge to respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders"?

• Munich Conference

• Berlin Conference

• Paris Conference

• Prague Conference

• Rome Conference

What is "an agreement in which nations promise not

to attack one another"?

• appeasement

• isolationism

• nonaggression pact

• armistice

What was "“lightning war”—a

form of warfare in which surprise attacks with

fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive

attacks with infantry forces"?

What was "Hitler’s program of

systematically killing the entire Jewish people"?

• Final Solution

• Holocaust

• Genocide

• Kristallnacht

• Armenian Massacre

What was "the systematic killing of an entire people"?

• Final Solution

• Holocaust

• Genocide

• Kristallnacht

• Armenian Massacre