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World War II Vocab
Question | Answer |
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A political and economic system where everything belongs to the state (government). Private property does not exist. | Communism |
A political system where the government is run by the people; people choose their leaders through free and fair elections. | Democracy |
Military alliance headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan. | Axis Powers |
Alliance headed by the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and the United States. | Allied Powers |
A political system with a dictator and characterized by extreme nationalist, racist, and expansionist policies. | Fascism |
A system where one person has total control and makes all the rules. | Dictatorship |
The policy of building up a country's military | Militarism |
An economic system where people can own their own business and own their own home. | Capitalism |
This campaign was fought between the RAF and the German Luftwaffe over the skies of London. | Battle of Britain |
This invasion was the official start of WWII. | Invasion of Poland |
This was the genocide of 6 million Jews and 5 million others by Nazi Germany. | Holocaust |
This battle started as a push to secure a Japanese-controlled airfield but turned into a 7-month long campaign between U.S. and Japanese forces that ended all Japanese expansion attempts in the Pacific. | Guadalcanal |
This major battle was a 3-stage operation which took two years of coordinating amongst the Allies and was launched on June 6th 1944. | D-Day |
A policy used by the European powers pre-WWII to avoid a larger conflict by allowing Hitler to "win" small concessions. | appeasement |
This act allowed the US to send war supplies to help allies like the UK fight against the Nazis. | Lend-Lease Act |
This battle began when Japanese forces attempted to take control of a major U.S territory. This American victory effectively stopped the Eastward expansion of the Axis Powers in the Pacific and led to the American “island hopping” campaign. | Battle of Midway |
Discrimination towards Jewish people. | anti-semitism |