test 2 Flashcards
Genocide
Killing a group, wipe out a religion,ethnic, or racial group
Ghettos
Historically, a part of a city based on ethnicity or religion
Holocaust
The period of stat-sponsored, millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler
Persecution
Harassment of people based on their race,religion,color, and national origin
Melancholy
A deep, pensive, and long lasting sadness
Liberated
Freed from enemy occupation
Propaganda
Cause or to injure or enhance, may bend facts or does not tell the entire story
Scapegoat
A person or group who is given the blame for mistakes or failures of other
Ethnocentrism
The belief that one’s own ethnic, religious, or political group is superior to all others
Truncheons
A short, thick stick carried by someone of authority
Anti-Semitism
Hostility or prejudice against people of Jewish ethnicity or religious beliefs
Dysentery
An infection of the intestines, which causes death
Dehumanization
Taking away the qualities of being a human
Crematories
Ovens where bodies were incinerated
Fascim
A system of government characterized by a dictatorship