Unit 5: The World at War Vocab

Question 1

Prejudice against or hatred of jewish people

Answer 1

Antisemitism

Question 2

Filled with excessive and single-minded enthusiasm

Answer 2

Fanatic

Question 3

A system of beliefs, ideas, or theories, usually focused on economics or politics, that informs how people live

Answer 3

Ideology

Question 4

Information that is biased or misleading in order to promote a particular cause

Answer 4

Propaganda

Question 5

A belief that Germans represent a superior form of humanity

Answer 5

Aryan supremacy

Question 6

A powerful leader who controls the government and laws of a country

Answer 6

Dictator

Question 7

A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator, individual freedoms are denied, and nationalism and often racism are emphasized

Answer 7

Fascism

Question 8

To abolish individual ownership in favor of group or government ownership

Answer 8

Collective

Question 9

Loyalty and devotion to one’s country and support for its interests above those of other countries or peoples

Answer 9

Nationalism

Question 10

A country’s desire to strengthen its armed forces in order to make itself more powerful

Answer 10

Militarism

Question 11

An ideology that focuses on personal independence and self reliance

Answer 11

Isolationism

Question 12

The skill of holding discussions between nations and resolving issues peacefully

Answer 12

Diplomacy

Question 13

Exemption from punishment, harm, or other negative consequences

Answer 13

Impunity

Question 14

The authority to rule a country or region

Answer 14

Sovereignty

Question 15

The part of a city where Jewish people were required to live

Answer 15

Ghettos

Question 16

A place where dead bodies were burned

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Crematoria

Question 17

A ban on trade with a specific nation or group of nations

Answer 17

Embargo

Question 18

A system of limiting the amount of something each person can have

Answer 18

Rationing

Question 19

Adapted to or involving both land and water

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Amphibious

Question 20

Geographic locations where military event occur

Answer 20

Theaters

Question 21

A strategy in which u.s. forces hopped over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support their advance and drastically altered japan’s progress in the pacific

Answer 21

Island hopping

Question 22

A suicidal attack in which a Japanese plane is deliberately crashed into a target

Answer 22

Kamikaze

Question 23

Show in a threatening light

Answer 23

Demonized

Question 24

A Nazi euphemism for eliminating a ghetto’s inhabitants by mass deportation to camps or by mass murder

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Liquidate

Question 25

A person who is present at an event or incident but chooses to not take part

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Bystander

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The theory that holds that truth, morality, etc. are dependent on context and prospective and are not absolute

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Relativism

Question 27

When Nazi leaders forced prisoners to commit horrific acts

Answer 27

Sonderkommando

Question 28

Officers originally established as Hitler's bodyguards, they became the elite guard of the third reich

Answer 28

Schutzstaffel

Question 29

Forced evacuations of concentration camps, especially to keep them from being liberated by the Allies

Answer 29

Death Marches

Question 30

Inhumane acts against a civilian population before or during a war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds related to other war crimes

Answer 30

Crimes against humanity

Question 31

Planning or waging a war of aggression or a war in violation of international agreements or conspiring to do so

Answer 31

Crimes against peace

Question 32

Violations of the laws or customs of war, including ill-treatment and slave labor

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War crimes

Question 33

A chronic bacterial disease usually spread by sexual contact

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Syphilis

Question 34

A person who inserts and hammers rivers, metal devices used to fasten parts together

Answer 34

Riveter

Question 35

The value of what you have to give up in order to choose something

Answer 35

Opportunity cost

Question 36

The Japanese survivors of the atomic blasts

Answer 36

Hibakusha