1. Between Wars & World War II Vocabulary
Directions: Confirm or correct your responses on your vocabulary worksheet

2. BLITZKRIEG
(1) A swift military attack often combining air and land forces

3. U-BOATS
(2) Submarines armed with torpedoes (used heavily by Germans)

4. HOLOCAUST
(3) Nazi Germany’s mass killing of Jewish people

5. REPARATIONS
(4) Money paid by a defeated nation to compensate for damage or injury during the war

6. GREAT DEPRESSION
(5) The worldwide economic downturn of the 1930s that started with the crash of the U.S. Stock Market in 1929

7. FASCISM
(6) Political system based on militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state and its leader

8. PROPAGANDA
(7) Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause or belief

9. ANTI-SEMITISM
(8) Prejudice or hatred of the Jewish people and culture

10. TREATY OF VERSAILLES
(9) A major cause of WWII because it punished Germany for WWI by forcing them to give up territory, reduce their military, and pay reparations for war damage

11. UNITED NATIONS
(10) International organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation

12. D-DAY
(11) June 6, 1944 when Allied troops attacked at Normandy, France (beginning of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied Forces)

13. KRISTALLNACHT
(12) November 9-10, 1938 when anti-Jewish forces unleashed a frenzy of hatred and violence across Germany

14. NAZI PARTY
(13) The National Socialist German Workers Party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power in under Adolf Hitler

15. APPEASEMENT
(14) The policy of giving into some aggression in order to avoid war

16. GENOCIDE
(15) The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group