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World War II words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aggression | warlike acts against other nations |
| conscription | required military service |
| demilitarized | where no military is allowed |
| appeasement | giving in to the "reasonable demands" of an unhappy nation, to avoid war. |
| Anschluss | unification, of Germany and Austria. |
| Munich pact | When Hitler decided to stop taking land with Britain and France appeasing. |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war against Poland. |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | an axis where Italy and Germany planned to be the axis around which all of Europe revolved. |
| strategic materials | materials important to fighting to other nations. |
| D-Day | the invasion when Allied forces invaded the beaches of Normandy, France. |
| Neville Chamberlain | a British Prime Minister who supported appeasement, declared that the said leaders had won "peace in our time." |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | Chinese leader, battled with Communists for control of the country, tried to appease Japan by allowing it to govern areas in northern China. |
| Charles de Gaulle |