Holocaust Vocabulary
1939-1942
1943-1945
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
100
Not taking part in the affairs of other nations
What is isolationism?
100
September 1st
What day did Hitler invade Poland?
100
Soviet troops
Who liberated Auschwitz?
100
Takes Tobruk in North Africa, and resist German attacks.
What is the English Army?
100
Led by Hitler.
Who was Germany led by?
200
An individual who rules a country through military might.
What is a dictator?
200
Winston Churchill
Who was the Prime Minister in 1940?
200
Germany takes over the battle.
What happened after Italy surrendered?
200
Attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbour.
What is the United States of America?
200
Led by Hideki Tojo.
Who was Japan led by?
300
The policy of giving an aggressor what it wants in order to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
300
Dunkirk
Where did the British Expeditionary Force evacuate from?
300
The British and Indians.
Who fought the Japanese in Burma?
300
The country where Anne Frank lived.
What is Holland or the Netherlands?
300
Benito Mussolini
Who led the Axis Powers?
400
A war that began in Europe in 1939 between the Allied Powers (France, Great Britain, and eventually the United States) and the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union); the war ended in 1945
What is World War II?
400
The U.K.
Where did the rationing start?
400
Allied victory in North Africa.
What enables invasion of Italy to be launched?
400
Overrun in less than six hours in 1940 by German forces.
What is the Danish Army?
400
Led by the Arrow Cross party.
Who led Hungary?
500
The name given to the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews and other “undesirables” during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
500
British victory in the Battle of Britain.
What forced Hitler to postpone his invasion plans of England?
500
Surrender at Stalingrad.
What marks Germany's first major defeat?
500
Raided Dieppe in France in 1942.
Who is the Canadian Army?
500
Invaded the Soviet Union to regain lands lost in 1939.
What is Finland?