WW2 And The Holocaust Flashcards
Nuremberg laws
Illegal for Germans to marry Jews
Jews can’t vote
Jews can’t enter public parks, cinema, theatre
What was life like for a Jewish person
Boycott of Jewish shops
Small amount of Jews allowed to go to university
Hitler youth and ss advertised what shops were Jewish owned
Genocide
Mass killing of people
Anti-semitism
The hatred of Jewish people
Holocaust
The genocide of European Jews during ww2
Final solution
The official code name for the murder of all Jews within reach
Extermination
Mass killing of a group of people or animals
Anger at the treaty of versailles
German was humiliated and angry, Hitler took advantage of that anger
Failure of the league of nations
The Americans didn’t want to get involved in future European conflict
The nazi- soviet pact
Hitler signed a 10 year non aggression pact w the soviet Union. Germany and Russia divided Poland between them.
Outbreak of war
German invaded Poland. Britain and France tell hitler to remove forces. Britain and France declared war on Germany ww2 begun
Why was it likely that Poland would be hitters next target
New countrie made after ww1
Had Germany population
Danzig was situated in the polish corridor
Anschluss
To connect of join
Lebensraum
A German concept of expanding a nation
Appeasement
A Britain policy allowing Hitler to expand German territory
