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WWII Vocabulary Review

WWII Vocabulary Review. Stems!. 9. Which term best describes “reduced the German army to 100,000 troops” in the below excerpt?.

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WWII Vocabulary Review

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  1. WWII Vocabulary Review

  2. Stems!

  3. 9. Which term best describes “reduced the German army to 100,000 troops” in the below excerpt? • The treaty reduced the German army to 100,000 troops, eliminated the general staff, and prohibited Germany from manufacturing armored cars, tanks, submarines, airplanes, and poison gas. In addition, all German territory west of the Rhine River (Rhineland), was established as a demilitarized zone.

  4. 10. Which vocabulary term best describes the start of World War II? Germany was ‘unprovoked’ and invaded Poland. • World War II started when an unprovoked Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Great Britain and France then declared war on Germany.

  5. 11. Which vocabulary term best describes “mass killings” in the below excerpt? • The killers do not believe their victims to be fully human. When this is sponsored by the state, the armed forces often work with militias to do the killing. Sometimes the genocide results in revenge killings by groups against each other. At this stage of mass killings, only rapid and overwhelming armed intervention can stop genocide.

  6. 12. The excerpt below best describes which vocabulary term? • From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire undertook the whole-sale killing of the able-bodied Armenian male population of Turkey through massacre and forced labor. They also enforced the deportation of Armenian women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches to the Syrian Desert. The total number of people killed is estimated between 1 and 1.5 million.

  7. 13. This map best describes which vocabulary term?

  8. 14. “Killed with machetes, axes, cudgels and iron bars” best describes which vocabulary term? • The massacres which occurred were systematic and particularly horrific.  Tutsis were attacked and killed with machetes, axes, cudgels and iron bars.  The victims were hunted down even in their final refuge - orphanages, hospitals, churches.  No one was spared.  Not even babies.  The exact number of killings in 1994 may never be known, but hundreds of thousands died. 

  9. 15. This political cartoon best describes which vocabulary term?

  10. 16. “The cession of the Sudetenland” to Hitler in the excerpt below best describes which vocabulary term? • British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden on 15 September and agreed to the cession of the Sudetenland; three days later, the French Prime Minister did the same. No Czechoslovak representative was invited to these discussions.

  11. 17. This picture best describes which vocabulary term?

  12. 18. Which term best describes this battle strategy used in the Pacific theatre?

  13. 19. The peace sign is a common symbol of which vocabulary term?

  14. 20. World War I: Schlieffen Plan:: World War II: ______________

  15. 21. Joseph Stalin is an example of which vocabulary term?

  16. 22. This picture best describes which vocabulary term?

  17. 23. The secret police in the excerpt can best be described by which vocabulary term? • …the secret police of Nazi Germany, and Nazi Germany’s main tool of oppression and destruction, which persecuted Germans, opponents of the regime, and Jews. It later played a central role in helping carry out the Nazi's “Final Solution."

  18. 24. The countries in red formed this vocabulary term after World War II.

  19. 25. These students are completing group work. Which vocabulary term best describes these students?

  20. 26. The excerpt below best describes which vocabulary term? • This was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout German-occupied territory.

  21. Constructed Response #1 • Adolf Hitler gained political support in Germany by resisting the terms of the Versailles Treaty and challenging the world powers responsible for the treaty. Select one of Germany’s plans from the list. Describe the implementation of the plan and the impact it had in regards to WWII. • Lebensraum • Anschluss • Appeasement • Blitzkrieg

  22. Constructed Response #2 • Evaluate the military strategies listed below. Explain which had the greatest influence on the outcome of WWII. • Manhattan Project • D-Day Invasion • Battle of the Coral Sea • Island Hopping

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