Vocab

Question 1

Allies

Answer 1

The nations united against the axis powers during World War II lead by the US great Britain and the USSR

Question 2

Anti-semitism

Answer 2

Irrational hostility towards Jews often characterized by discrimination persecution and violence

Question 3

Aryan

Answer 3

The name of the Nazis used to describe white non-Jewish Germans specifically Nordic people with blond hair and blue eyes whom the Nazis believe are superior to all other races

Question 4

Axis powers

Answer 4

The three countries nazis Germany Italy and Japan fighting the allies during World War II

Question 5

Boycott

Answer 5

Refusal to do business with the person group or nation for political reasons

Question 6

Concentration camp

Answer 6

A place of imprisonment for political Foes, members of minority groups or prisoners of war often characterized by harsh conditions Brutal guards and torture

Question 7

Fascism

Answer 7

A political philosophy characterized by a dictatorship, extreme nationalism, and suppression of opposition, backed by an aggressive military

Question 8

Final solution

Answer 8

The Nazi plan to murder every Jew in Europe. It’s full name was final solution to the Jewish question.

Question 9

Fuhrer

Answer 9

The supreme leader of Nazi Germany, adolf Hitler

Question 10

Genocide

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The systematic killing of a racial, ethnic, or religious group, or destruction of the culture

Question 11

Gestapo

Answer 11

The terrorist, secret police force of Nazi Germany, infamous for it’s brutal methods of torture, nighttime raids, and mass arrests without cause.

Question 12

Ghetto

Answer 12

Originally a term referring to the area of European cities to which jews were restricted and where they were required to live. Currently means an economically depressed area populated by a racial or ethnic minority group

Question 13

Holocaust

Answer 13

The murder of approximately 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies between 1933 to 1945. Literally the word means a distraction by fire

Question 14

Krystallnacht

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German term meaning Crystal night for night of broken glass. Refers to the events of November 9 and 10th 1938 when thousands of jewelry shops and synagogues in Germany and Austria were destroyed and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to labor camps

Question 15

Nazi

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Abbreviation for the national Socialist German workers party led by Hitler the took power in Germany in 1933

Question 16

POGROM

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The Organize the massacre of a Jewish community carried out by local citizens usually with the official consent

Question 17

SS

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Abbreviation of the German word for protection squad. Refers to a private Nazi army given special duties in the holocaust including running the concentration camps. Also called a black shirts because of the black uniforms

Question 18

Swastika

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And ancient mystical symbol composed of a cross with bent arms adopted by the Nazis as their symbol

Question 19

Third Reich

Answer 19

Hitler’s name for Germany during his years as dictator 1933 to 1945 literally the third Empire