World War 2 Terms and Phrases

Choose the best definition of the following words or phrases associated with WWII.

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1. Panzer

A Dutch wooden shoe ✓

A German tank ✓

A french artillery ✓

An American factory ✓

2. Blitzkrieg

Anti-war ✓

Secret war ✓

Santa's reindeer ✓

Lightning War ✓

3. Manhattan Project

Program to develop Atomic Bomb ✓

Plan to rebuild Europe post-WWII ✓

Early code name for D-Day ✓

U.K. nickname for American war involvment ✓

4. Final Solution

Nazi term for extermination of European Jews ✓

Soviet plan to execute all German sympathizers ✓

U.S. plan for reconstructing Europe. ✓

British proposal for directly invading Germany. ✓

5. Maginot Line

Last Allied defense line around Dunkirk ✓

System of forts/fortifications along the French/German border ✓

Trenches the Germans passed by in the Netherlands ✓

Line separating Occupied France from Vichy France ✓

6. Operation Sealion

America's proposed invasion of Brazil ✓

U.K.'s plan to seize Iceland ✓

Japan's plan to take the California coast ✓

Germany's planned invasion of the British Isles ✓

7. The Winter War

British Invasion of Scandinavia ✓

Germany's Norwegian Campaign ✓

Russian-Finnish War ✓

German-Russian battle at Moscow ✓

8. Kamikaze

Japanese suicide attacks on allied ships ✓

Japanese concentration camps in China ✓

Japanese battle cry ✓

Famous Chinese Communist insurgent ✓

9. Appeasement

Policy that lead to Germany absorbing Sudetenland ✓

Policy that lead to Germany taking Austria ✓

Policy that lead to Germany taking Memel from Lithuania ✓

All of the Above ✓

10. Pact of Steel

A treaty between France, Britain, and Poland ✓

A treaty signed by Germany and Italy ✓

Non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union ✓

Non-aggression pact between Japan and the Soviet Union ✓

11. Yalta Conference

Major meeting of Stalin and generals to redefine strategy ✓

Wartime meeting with Allied leaders outlining the future United Nations. ✓

Final meeting of the "Big 3" Allied leaders. ✓

First meeting with Roosevelt and Churchill after U.S. war declaration ✓

12. Enigma Machine

Italian cappuccino machines ✓

Code breaking device used by Britain ✓

Encryption device used by Germany ✓

Lie detection device used by the Soviets ✓

13. ETO

Japan's abbreviation for Peal Harbor attack ✓

The abbreviation for the "European Theater of Operations" ✓

Early codename for "Operation Overlord" ✓

U.S./British convoy distress signal ✓

14. B-24

Soviet Tank ✓

British Fighter ✓

U.S. bomber ✓

German Submarine ✓

15. Operation Unthinkable

Allies' planned direct seaborne invasion of Germany ✓

Proposed U.S. alliance with Japan against Soviets ✓

Secret plans for atomic bombing of Berlin ✓

Code name of war plans by Western Allies against the Soviet Union ✓

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