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32 Cards in this Set
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Holocaust |
the systematic killing of about 6 million Jewish people and millions of others by Nazis between 1933 and 1945 |
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Genocide |
the deliberate and sytematic killing of a racial, religious, political, or culteral group |
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Anti-Semitism |
discrimination againts the Jewish religion |
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Nazi |
grew to power in the 30s; Based on militaristic, racial, antisemitic, and national policies |
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Star of David |
the symbol of Judism |
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Displacement |
being involuntarily moved because of war, government policies, or other societal actions |
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Rabbi |
the leader of a Jewish congregation, similar to a priest
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Ghetto |
Nazi word for concetration and control. Usually placed in the poor sides of cities and sealed by a barbed wire fence |
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Kristallnacht |
"Night of the Broken Glass" 11/9/1938- Jewish churched were burned, Jewish shops were ransacked and destoryed, Jewish moved to concentration camps |
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Death Camp |
extermination centers where Jews and others were sent to be killed |
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Concentration Camp |
prisons used to trap political and nonpolitical prisoners forced to work before or until they died |
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Gas Chambers |
large chambers where poeple were killed with lethal gasses |
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Crematorium |
a facility that houses a cremator and turns bodies into ash |
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Death March |
forced marches to move victoms to places far away in less that tolerable conditions |
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Propoganda |
false or partly face information used by the government to sway others |
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Aryan Race |
peoplespeaking the language of Europe and India |
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Chancellor |
the Cheif or Prime Minister of Germany |
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Occupation (not job) |
control of a country by a foreign military power |
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Allied Powers |
Great Britian, USA, China and the Soviet Union |
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Axis Powers |
Germany, Italy and Japan |
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Final Solution |
a Nazi plan to exterminate all Jewish people |
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Gestapo |
the Secret State Police of Germany |
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SS |
Hitlers person gaurds; polics and security |
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Ethnic Cleaning |
the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group |
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Swastica |
an ancient symbol chosen by the Nazis as their "logo" |
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Kapo |
the person in charge of a work gang |
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Great Depression |
Began in 1929 following WWII; Lack of money world wide; it was a particular hardship for Germany |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Commander of all Ally forces in Europe beginning in 1942; Became the President in 1952 |
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Heinrich Himmler |
Head of the SS secret police, controlled and oversaw all of the concentration camps; Committed suicide in 1945 after his arrest |
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Hitler Youth |
Group of Nazi youth established in 1926, it was a required action after 1939. They sent boys about 12-18 to military school to train to become soldiers |
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Nuremberg Trials |
Trials of 22 major Nazi figures in Nuremberg, Germany in 1945 and 1946 |
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Adolf Hitler
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Chancellor of Germany, became it after promising to being Germany back to its richness |
