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36 Cards in this Set
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aggressor nation
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powerful nations attacking less powerful nations
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Allies
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United States, Britain, France, and Russia
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Aryan
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Master Race (Blond hair, Blue eyes)
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Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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"Canada"
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vast warehouses that held the belongings of the Jews
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concentration camp
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prison camp, hundreds existed
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contragenic
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enemy of the Nazi State
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Crystal Night
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Jewish store windows shattered; November 9-10 @ night 1938
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death camp
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Prison camps specifically for the killing of Jews
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Final Solution
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the Nazi plan to murder Jews by gasing
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Fuhrer
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supreme leader of the Nazi party
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genocide
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systematic extermination of a race
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Gestapo
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secret state police
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ghettos
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a limited special area for Jews to live
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Holocaust
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death by burning; 1933-1939
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kapo
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Jewish prisoner who leads worker groups of concentration camp
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Mein Kampf
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Nazi Bible
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Nazi
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National Socialist German Workers Party
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Nuremberg Trials
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high ranking members of Third Reich on trial
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Operation Reinhard
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Nickname for the murder of all Jews in Poland
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partisans
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people who helped Jews
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pogrom
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a suprise attack on a Jewish community
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propaganda
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deliberate methodical spreading of ideas
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Resistance
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secret underground network all over Europe dedicated to killing Nazis
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SA
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Storm Troopers, nicknamed brown shirts
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SD
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Security Service
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Sonderkommando
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in charge of emptying chamber
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SS
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Most powerful, black shirts
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selection
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process of who lived and died
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Semite
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thought of a race by birth by blood - Jews after 1873
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Star of David
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symbol of Jewish faith
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swastika
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Nazi symbol
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Third Reich
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Reich = empire, thought it would last 1,000 years
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typhus
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contagious disease spread by lice
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Zionists
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Believer in the eventual Jewish nation of Israel
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zyklon B
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poison used by death camps: poisonous gas
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