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imperialism
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going to another place/country and claiming it as ones own.
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1884 congress of berlin
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15 countries met to divide up africa. No african countries were present.
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Allies
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people who are on someones side.
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mutiny
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to abandon (happens or ships)
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November criminals
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The people who signed the treaty of Versallies. Caused loss of war in citizens eyes. (also jews and communists.
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Weimar republic
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the new democratic government in Germany after wwI. Was not very successful
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Reich
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German empire
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Reichstag
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German congress
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Gypsies
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the name that the Germans gave to the two ethnic groups the sinti and the roma
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Eye of the storm
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a film about the brown eye blue eye experiment
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Jane elliot
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the teacher who conducted the brown eye blue eye experiment on her class.
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Authority
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the people who are incharge
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dehumanizing
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to deprive someone of human qualities or atributes
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repartions
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pay for the damages to a people or property of a nation after a war
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party platform
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the list of beliefs of a group or party
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treaty of versallies
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a treaty from the between Germany and other countries. Germany apologized for any damage that they caused during WWI
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Mein Kampf
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Hitler's autobiography that was published in 1925. Means "My struggle"
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NSDAP-->Nazi party
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A small political group that Hitler took over. He soon made it big.
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Scapegoats
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those who are blamed. (Jews in Nazi reign)
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lebenstraum
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living space
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Aschluss
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when germany invaded austria
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totalitarian
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a person who exersises total control of freedom.
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Dictator
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a leader who tells country what to do.
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Fuhrer
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what Hitler refered to himself as when her was in power.
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Charisma
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the ability to persuade
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Joseph Geobbels
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the man that hitler elected at the head of the ministry of public enlightenment and propaganda.
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Propaganda
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information spread for the purpose of promoting something.
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Mischling
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a half jewish half "aryan" child
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Milgram
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a proffesor at Yale who conducted experiments about obedience
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Euphemisms
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language of propaganda. Made things sound better than they actually were.
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Dachau
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the first concentration camp.
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Himmler, Menegle
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hitler's top generals/political people
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Streicher
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wrote against Jews in newspapers.
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Perpetrator
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the person who commits an act.
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Rescuer
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a person who rescues someone.
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SS, SA, Gestapo
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the nazi special forces poliece
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Boycott
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to refuse to buy or use something.
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Pogrom
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organized mob violence by the government.
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Star of David
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the symbol of jewish religion. Jews had to wear it during the holocaust.
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Swastika
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the Nazi party symbol.
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Kristallnatch 1938/night of broken glass
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People killed jews and trashed their stores and schools.
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Evian conference 1938
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Germany met with other countries to see if anyone would take the jews. Only the Dominican republic allowed Jews to come into their country.
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ss.st lewis
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ship bound to cuba with Jewish emigrants on board, were not let onto cuba.
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T-4/euthanasia program
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the program set up to kill the handicapt
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Crematoria
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the ovens where dead bodies were burned.
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Ghettos
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the bad parts of cities that were set aside for Jews to live in.
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Mobile Killing Squads
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squads that traveled around and killed mass numbers of jews and people who were against the Nazis.
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Final Solution/Wannsee conference 1942
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Decided to kill the Jews. It was decided at the conference.
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Genocide
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The killing of people because of their religion, race, or gender.
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"Extermination camps"
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the place where many jews were sent to. They were then murdered there, mostly by gassing.
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Deportations
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Ghettos to trains to extermination camps.
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Holocaust
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the mass murder of Jews literally means "to burn"
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Zyklon B.
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the gas that was used to kill jews.
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Auschwitz-birkernau
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the largest concentration camp.
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Arbeit Match Frei
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"work makes one free" sign over the entrance to Ausch-Birk
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Danish rescue effort
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danish smuggled Jews to sweden and hid them in danish homes, churches and hospitals.
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War Refugee board
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First US attempt to help fight against holocaust. Worked with jewish organizations, neutral countries and resistance groups to help the jews.
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White rose
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A resistance group formed by three young adults. Gave out packets and wrote on university walls.
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Warsaw ghetto uprising
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4/19/43- 5/16/43. Went against german soldiers. Held out for a few months before failing.
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Roza Robota
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Accused for supplying dynamite for ausch/birk revolt
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Partisians
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Jewish fighting units who hid in the woods.
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Death Marches
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Fleeing camps, guards put captives on trains and then made them walk. Many Jews/Captured died.
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liberations
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to free
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Nuremberg trails
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the trails held for the Nazis at the end of wwII
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