Night vocab (quiz 2) Flashcards
The systematic killing of group with the intent to wipe out a religious, ethnic, or racial group
genocide
Historically, a part of a city where a minority, often based on ethnicity or religion, was required to live
ghettos
The period of state-sponsored persecution of millions of Jews by adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, with the goal of exterminating europes Jewish population
holocaust
The oppression and or harassment of people based on their race, religion, color, nation of origin, or other distinguishing factors
persecution
A deep, pensive, and long saddness
melancholy
freed from enemy occupation
liberated
Information used to promote a cause or to injure or enhance the reputation of a group, individual, or position, and which may either not be factual, may bend the facts or does not tell the entire story in order to suit the purposes of the author
propaganda
a person or group who is given the blame for the mistakes or failures of others, promoted through the use of propaganda
scapegoat
the belief that ones own ethnic, religious, or political group is superior to all others
ethnocentrism
a short, thick stick carried by someone of authority
truncheons
an infection of the intestines, which usually causes death
dysentery
hostility or prejudice against people of jewish ethnicity or religious beliefs
anit-semitism
taking away the qualities of being a human being
dehumanization
ovens where bodies were incinerated
crematories
a system of government characterized by a dictatorship, belligerent nationalism, and racism
fascism
