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World War II: Key Terms
100

What is an arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed?

Assembly Line

100

What marked the beginning of the Great Depression?

Stock Market Crash

100

What was the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II?

Axis Powers

100

Strategic City located on the Volga River?

Stalingrad

100
Dictator
What is a ruler with absolute power and authority?
200

What is a time when the economy is making money?

Prosperity

200

What is the state of searching for or having no work?

Unemployment

200

What is often stated as the beginning of World War II?

Invasion of Poland


Treaty of Versailles

200
Propaganda
What is a form of communication aimed at convincing you of something?
200
front
What is the place where the actual fighting is going on during a war?
300

What is a term that describes someone who works for wages that are so low they can barely survive?

Working Poor

300

What was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s?

Dust Bowl

300

What is day that commenced the invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces (most notably the United Kingdom and the Canada, and the United States)?

D-Day

300

List one way that Women contributed to the war effort on the homefront

Took over the jobs most commonly fulfilled by men

300
Holocaust
What is murder by the Nazis of the Jews and others in WWII?
400
Famous Canadian painters during the 1920's?

The Group of Seven

400

What is a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economy?

Depression

400

What is the 1942 failed invasion of the port of Dieppe by Great Britain and Canada?

Raid of Dieppe

400

What refers to the confinement of Japanese Canadians in large detention centers following the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Japanese Internment Camps

400
Genocide
What is the systematic and deliberate killing of a racial or cultural group?
500

Women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz were called?

Flappers

500

What was the music era of the 1930's known as?

The jazz age

500

What are the two Japanese cities where the United States dropped atomic bombs at the end of the war?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

500

This Canadian soldier won 10 medals including a silver star for his military service. Unfortunately, he was forced to sell all his medals because of the discriminations he experienced after the war

Tommy Prince

500
Blitzkreig
What is "lightning" like military tactic used by the Germans in World War II?