Definitions

Question 1

Prejudice

Answer 1

To judge somebody before you get to know them

Question 2

Stereotype

Answer 2

A fixed general image of a person or thing shared by many people

Question 3

Discrimination

Answer 3

To treat somebody differently for a specific reason

Question 4

Braunau

Answer 4

The place in austria where hitler was born

Question 5

Vienna art academy

Answer 5

The school hitler was rejected from by a Jewish principle

Question 6

German workers’ party

Answer 6

The political party hitler joined in 1919

Question 7

N.S.D.A.P

Answer 7

The new name of the German workers’ party, of which hitler became leader, commonly known as the nazi party

Question 8

S.A (brown shirts)

Answer 8

The nazi private army

Question 9

Ernst rohm

Answer 9

The leader of the S.A(Brown shirts)

Question 10

Swastika

Answer 10

The symbol of the nazi party

Question 11

S.S

Answer 11

The personal bodyguard of the nazi party

Question 12

Munich putsch

Answer 12

The event in 1923 in which hitler attempted to overthrow the Weimar government

Question 13

Landsberg prison

Answer 13

Where hitler went to jail

Question 14

Mein kampf

Answer 14

The book hitler wrote while in prison

Question 15

Adolf lanz

Answer 15

The man hitler met while in jail, who gave hitler ideas about “blood theories”

Question 16

Joseph goebbels

Answer 16

Hitler’s minister of propaganda

Question 17

Gestapo

Answer 17

The official secret police force of the nazi party

Question 18

Night of the long knives

Answer 18

A purge by the nazi party on 30 June 1934 in which the SS and the gestapo killed members of the SA

Question 19

Define propaganda

Answer 19

Persuasive communication which influences beliefs, opinions and emotions.
Is deliberately used to influence people.
Appeals to the heart and not the mind

Question 20

Define democracy

Answer 20

A form of government in which there is an elected government/ people can vote for their government

Question 21

Define dictatorship

Answer 21

A form of government in which one person has total control

Question 22

Define totalitarianism

Answer 22

A form of government in which there is one party and one leader who has complete control. There is no freedom of the individual.

Question 23

Define fascism (fascist)

Answer 23

A political theory that the government should have complete control. In fascist states, the political party serves its own needs as is not concerned with citizen’s rights.

Question 24

Define antisemitism

Answer 24

An extreme dislike or hatred of jews

Question 25

Define genocide

Answer 25

A deliberate attempt to kill a national, race or religious group

Question 26

Define ghetto

Answer 26

A poor area in a city where Jewish people were forced to live

Question 27

Define holocaust

Answer 27

Any large scale killing and destruction, especially by fire. This term refers to the persecution and mass murder of the jews by the nazis between 1933 and 1945

Question 28

Define concentration camp

Answer 28

Special war-time camps where opponents or political prisoners were held first used by the British during the south african war. (1899-1902) to imprison boer and black women and children

Question 29

Define putsch

Answer 29

A forceful overthrowing of the government