Holocaust + World War 2

Question 1

Hebrew

Answer 1

A language used by the ancient Jewish and in modern Israel

Question 2

Holocaust

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Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale. It was the genocide of European Jews during world war II between 1941-1945. 6 million were slaughtered and 1.5 million of them was a child.

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Auschwitz-birkenau

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Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Jew

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A member of the people and cultural communities, whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Synagogues

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The building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction.

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Yiddish

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A language used by Jewish people in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

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Torah

Answer 7

The main Jewish worship book

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Causation

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The action of causing something or making something happen.

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Untermensch

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A Germán Word for a person considered racially or socially inferior

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Anti - semitism

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Hostility to a prejudice against the Jewish people eg. The Nazis

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Communism

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A political system, where wealth is supposed to be shared equally. It was created by a man called Karl Marx

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Scapegoat

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A person who is blamed for the wrongdoing, mistakes, or fault of others

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Persecution

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Hostility and ill treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation

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Star of David

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A six pointed figure consisting of two interlaced equilateral triangle used as a Jewish and Judaism symbol

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Kristallnacht

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It was a program against Jews that was carried out by the Nazi. Some of the acts include breaking windows at Jewish shops, businesses or synagogue. It was also known as the ‘Night of the broken glass’

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Ghetto

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Are poor urban area occupied, primarily by a minority group. It was where the Jews were forced to live.

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Spontaneous

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Performed or occurring as a result of a sudden inner impulse. When something happened suddenly without planning

Question 18

Final solution

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The Nazi plan to kill all the European Jews.

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Genocide

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The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group

Question 20

Appeasement

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The name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. This is mostly associated with British Prime Minister, Neville chamberlain

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League of Nation

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The first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principle mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded in 1920 and established after World War I. It was created by the President of the US

Question 22

Blitzkrieg

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A method of offensive warfare designed to strike a swift focus, blow add an enemy using mobile manoeuverable forces, including armoured tanks and air support. It is translated to ‘lightning war’. It was Germany military tactic in World War 2.

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Operation Barbarossa

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The invasion of the Soviet union by Nazi Germany between June 22 and December 5, 1941

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Red army

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The army, an air force of the Bolshevik party, the Communist Army of the Soviet union.

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Manhattan Project

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A research and development project undertaking during World War II that produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the US with the support of the UK and Canada. It started in August 13, 1942 and ended in August 1945. The lead scientist was called Robert Oppenheimer.

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Kamikaze

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The Japanese special attack unit of military who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan in hope of killing Americans and sinking ships.

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Cold war

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A period of geopolitical tension between the US and the Soviet Union. It occurred between 1945 and 1991. The two superpowers were trying to spread their ideologies and political views and never directly for each other.

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Space race

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A 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.

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Capitalism

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Private companies are allowed to own business is the government does not interfere that much in the economy people have a lot of freedom

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Ideology

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A set of political idea

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Allies

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Countries which support each other in the a war

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Pact

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A formal agreement between individuals or country

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Constitution

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A set of rules by which a country is run

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Superpower

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A very powerful and influential nation

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The ‘West’

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A term used to describe the United States and its allies in North America and Europe

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Soviet Union

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A term used to describe Russia in the countries controlled in 1922 to 1991

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Stockpile

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To build up a large supply of something such as weapons