World War II Vocab

Veteran

• Paying back a person or group that you have harmed

• A formal agreement between countries

• people who have fought in a war

• people who do not have a job

Treaty

• Paying back a person or group that you have harmed

• A formal agreement between countries

• people who have fought in a war

• people who do not have a job

What was "the program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II"?

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Eisenhower Doctrine

A strategy drawn up by Germany to avoid fighting a war on two fronts

• Trench Warfare

• Triple Alliance

• Schlieffen Plan

• League of Nations

Neville Chamberlain visited Munich in 1938 to negotiate the fate of Sudetenland. Which policy is most closely associated with Chamberlain’s action?

• appeasement

• nonalignment

• reparations

• colonialism

What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II?

• Operation Overlord

• Operation Torch

• Operation Barbarossa

• Operation Market Garden

Which term describes the systematic genocide of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II?

• Holocaust

• Blitzkrieg

• D-Day

• Manhattan Project

What was the primary purpose of the Manhattan Project during World War II?

• To develop the atomic bomb

• To create a new type of tank

• To establish a new air force base

• To plan the invasion of Japan

Which conference in 1945 was attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss post-war reorganization?

• Yalta Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• Tehran Conference

• Munich Conference

What was the main goal of the Lend-Lease Act passed by the United States in 1941?

• To provide military aid to Allied nations

• To establish a peace treaty with Germany

• To create a new alliance with Japan

• To develop new weapons technology