Final Study Guide

Question 1

Ally

Answer 1

The ally is a friend or helper. During World War II, France, the United States, Russia (Soviet Union) , and Britain (United Kingdom, worked to defeat Germany and its Axis partners.

Question 2

Anti-semitism

Answer 2

Anti-Semitism is the discrimination or persecution of Jews. The Jewish people were denied political, economic, and social opportunities by people who practiced anti-semitism.

Question 3

Aryan

Answer 3

The term used to describe the Nazi master race. This race was thought to superior to all other races in physical, mental, emotional, social, and economic ways.

Question 4

Axis Alliance (Powers)

Answer 4

a temporary alliance for combined action of political parties forming a government. this was an alliance that was headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II.

Question 5

Concentration Camps

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These prisons were used to hold political prisoners of the Nazis. They involved unsanitary conditions and torture. The purpose was to imprison people of certain political, cultural, and social movements that the Nazis beleived to be a threat to the survival of their regime.

Question 6

Crematorium

Answer 6

a facility containing a furnace for reducing dead bodies to ashes by burning.

Question 7

death Camps

Answer 7

A death camp was a Nazi center of murder and extermination.

Question 8

Death Marches

Answer 8

The marches were imposed on prisoners by the Nazis in order to keep them from liberation by Allied forces. Death Marches were forced marches of concentration camp prisoners over long distances under guard in extremely harsh conditions.

Question 9

Deportation

Answer 9

forcibly transport persons from one country to another location against their will by governmental authorities.

Question 10

Final Solution

Answer 10

The term used by the Nazis meaning the total annihilation of the Jews of Europe. The final solution referred to the mass murdering of the Jews, and the Nazi leaders envisioned killing 11 million jews as part of this “Final Solution”.

Question 11

Genocide

Answer 11

The systematic elimination
of a people or nation. Genocide is the specific term that reffers to the extremely violent crimes commited against groups with the purpose to exterminate the existence of the group.

Question 12

Gestapo

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This group was the Secret Service Police for the Nazi. The Gestapo was responsible for investigating political crimes and opposition activities, and used brutal interrogation methods.

Question 13

Ghetto

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The section of the city where the Jews were forced to live. It was crowded. It had restrictions, hardships, extreme poverty, and other hardships.

Question 14

Holocaust

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Term used to refer to the systematic murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis between 1933 & 1945. The Holocaust happened when the Nazis took over and started killing and taking Jews as prisoners, where Jews were heavilly mistreated.

Question 15

Kristallnacht

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This term translates as “night of broken glass”; a day in 1938 when Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were attacked, and Jews were first deported.

Question 16

Liberation

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The term means that prisoners were freed from captivity. When Allied and Soviet troops moved across Europe, they freed prisoners of the concentrations camps

Question 17

Nazi

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This is an acronym for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

Question 18

Nuremburg Laws

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Laws that took away the civil rights and citizenship of Jews. It systematized the discrimination and persecution of the Jews.

Question 19

Pogrom

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An organized and often officially encouraged massacre of or attack on Jews. Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently.” Kristallnacht is one of most widely known pogroms. The Einstazgruppen with the help of local people conducted pogroms on the Jewish population.

Question 20

Propaganda

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The term refers to information used by a government intended to convince people and sway people to a certain opinion.

Question 21

Resistance

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A group of people who went against the Nazi regime.

Question 22

Selection

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The procedure used to determine who would live and who would die in death and labor camps.

Question 23

Synagogue

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A Jewish place of worship and learning of Judaism. Synagogues were the center of community and religion for the Jewish people. The Nazis often destroyed the synagogues to destroy the Jewish people.

Question 24

Zyklon B

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A pesticide used in some of the gas chambers at the death camps to murder the victims of the Nazis. These people were seen as “unfit” to work so they were exterminated.

Question 25

noun

Answer 25

Name a person, place, thing or idea.

Question 26

Proper nouns

Answer 26

Name a special person, place or thing, often names or months and stuff (Capitalized)

Question 27

Pronouns

Answer 27

Take the place of a noun….. he she it her his they their we our

Question 28

Adjectives

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Are modifying words that describe a noun, such as size, color and number.

Question 29

Verbs

Answer 29

Show an action or a place of being

Question 30

Adverbs

Answer 30

Describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.
They specify when, where and how much. (a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.)

Question 31

Prepositions

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a word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word or element in the rest of the sentence (show the position of something) “beneath,” “beside,” “between,” “from,” “in front of,” “inside,” “near,” “off,” “out of,” “through,” “toward,” “under,” and “within.”

Question 32

Conjunctions

Answer 32

FANBOYS—- Join words, phrases and clauses together. (and as or so because however)

Question 33

Articles

Answer 33

Three special words that can be used before a noun. (a an the)

Question 34

INTERJECTIONS

Answer 34

State an exclamation or remark!
(Usually followed with an exclamation mark)
examples: Ouch! Hooray! Oh! Yes! Wow!

Question 35

Anne Frank

Answer 35

Main charactar, 13, Secret annex resident, daughter and sister

Question 36

Margot frank

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Anne franks sister, shy, 18, secret annex redsidents

Question 37

Mr and Ms frank

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Anne franks parents, Secret annex residents,

Question 38

Peter vaan dan

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secret annex resident, 15, son

Question 39

Mr and ms van dan

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Parents of peter, secret annex residents

Question 40

Miep Gies and Mr kraler

Answer 40

Workers in Mr frank’s bussiness

Question 41

Setting of Diary of Anne Frank

Answer 41

Takes place July 1942, Amsterdam, The netherlands

Question 42

STOP

Answer 42

take a break. Drink some water. eat a snack. You are doing great!

Question 43

carillon

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a set of bells, commonly found in church bell towers

Question 44

capitulation

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the act of surrendering or giving up

Question 45

yellow stars

Answer 45

the six pointed stars of david that the nazis ordered all jews to wear for identification

Question 46

plus fours

Answer 46

pants that end just below the knee

Question 47

Green police

Answer 47

The nazi police who wore green uniforms

Question 48

conspicuous

Answer 48

easily seen, obvious`

Question 49

mercurial

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changing or inconsistant

Question 50

Ration books

Answer 50

books of stamps or coupons issued by the government in wartime. With these coupons, people could purchase scarce items, such as food, clothing, and gasoline.

Question 51

Black market

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a system for selling goods illegally, in violation of rationing and other restrictions

Question 52

abruptly

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suddenly or unexpectedly

Question 53

Play

Answer 53

A play is a drama, a form of literature meant to be performed by actors in front of an audience. (Like other forms of literature, a drama presents a series of events, called the plot, and establishes the time and place of those events, called the setting. The plot centers on a conflict, a struggle between opposing forces, and unfolds through the characters’ words and actions.)

Question 54

cast of characters

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a list of all the characters in the drama; the cast appears at the beginning of the drama.

Question 55

Dialogue

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the words that the characters say; the character’s name precedes his or her lines of dialogue.

Question 56

stage directions

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instructions for how the drama is to be performed in front of an audience; the instructions are often set in parentheses. They might even use Italicized (light and slanted) print.

Question 57

act

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a part of a play defined by elements such as rising action, climax, and resolution.

Question 58

scenes

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one of the subdivisions of a play: such as. a : a division of an act presenting continuous action in one place. b : a single situation or unit of dialogue in a play