| Term | Definition |
|---|
| 1933 | Hitler is elected chancellar of Germany |
| Hitler is elected chancellar of Germany | 1933 |
| 1935 | Nuremburg Laws created |
| Nuremburg Laws created | 1935 |
| Nov. 9, 1938 | Kristallnacht/ "Night of the Broken Glass |
| Kristallnacht/ "Night of the Broken Glass | Nov. 9, 1938 |
| Aug. 45, 1939 | Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Aug 6, 1945 |
| Sept. 1, 1939 | Hitler invades Poland (WWII begins) |
| Hitler invades Poland (WWII begins) | Sept. 1, 1939 |
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day/ Normany Invasion |
| D-Day/ Normany Invasion | June 6, 1944 |
| May 7, 1945 | Germany Surrenders |
| Germany Surrenders | May 7, 1945 |
| Sept. 2, 1945 | Japan Surrenders |
| Japan Surrenders | Sept. 2, 1945 |
| Name of Treaty at Germany signed at end of WWI | Treaty of Versailles |
| Name of Hitler's Party (acronym of National Socialist German Worker's Party) | Nazi |
| Purpose of Nuremburg Laws | Issued in 1935, laws which were designed to exclude the Jews from Germany both socially and politically |
| Countries that made up the "Big Three" Allied Powers and their leaders' names | United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman. Great Britian: Winston Churchill. Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin |
| Countries that made up the "Big Three" Axis Powers and their leaders' names | Germany: Adolf Hitler. Italy: Benito Mussolini. Japan: General Hideki Tojo |
| Country Hitler invaded that initiated the start of World War II | Poland |
| Total # of people killed in the war | 55 million |
| Overall # killed in the Holocaust | 11 million |
| Total # of Jews killed in the Holocaust | 6 million |
| Total # of people killed by Stalin's purges | 22 million |
| The first three groups of people (and the order) that were sent to the early camps | 1.) Criminals 2.) Political Prisoners 3.) Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals |
| Name of death camp where largest number of people were killed | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| Anti-Semitism | Prejudice against the Jewish people |
| Aryan | Term used by Nazi to describe a "race" of people they viewed as being racially superior; originally, the term used to classify an Indo-European language group |
| Auschwitz-Birkenau | Located in Poland, largest death camp built by the Nazis; over 2,000,000 people died there by means of starvation, diease, and gassing; Birkenau is often referred to as Auschwitz II |
| Concentration Camps | Work and death camps located in Germany and Poland to incarcerate and exterminate Jews, Gypsies, political dissidents, and others deemed "undesirable" by the Nazis |
| Crematorium | A furnace used in the death camps to cremate the bodies of victims |
| Death Camps | Camps built to exterminate Jews and other "enemies" of the Nazi regime |
| Death Marches | Forced marches of concentration camp prisoners as the Nazis tried to keep ahead of the Allied forces; approximately one third of those in the death marches died as a result of either disease, starvation, overexposure to the elements, or being shot by their guards |
| Deportation | Forced removal of Jews from their homes in Nazi-occupied lands; under the pretense of resettlement, victims were sent to death and labor camps |
| "Final Solution" | Nazi code word for the physical extermination of European Jews |
| Gas Chamber | A sealed and airtight room where death was induced through the use of poisonous gases |
| Genocide | The systematic killing of a nation or race of people |
| Ghetto | An area of a city to which the Jews were restricted and from which they were forbidden to leave |
| Holocaust | Term used to describe the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people of Eastern Europe by the Nazi regime; by the end of World War II, approximately 6,000,000 Jewish men, women, and children had been killed |
| Gypsies | A group of people also singled out for extermination by the Nazi regime; by the end of World War II, approximately one quarter of a million Gypsies had been killed |
| Higgins Boats | Boats that were an important mean of transportion for the U.S. Military. These boat allowed troops to access the beaches quicker during an invasion, such as D-Day. The boats were created in New Orleans and even Hitler learned of its presence. |
| Labor Camp | A Nazi concentration camp predominately designed for slave labor |
| Liberators | Soldiers who freed the prisoners of the concentration camps |
| Prejudice | An attitude toward a person, group of people, or idea formed without adequate information |
| Racism | Practice of discrimination, segregation, persecution, and domination on the basis of race |
| Resistance | Physical and Spiritual opposition to the nazi regime |
| Scapegoat | An innocent person or persons blamed for the problems or troubles of another |
| SS (Schutzstaffel) | Elite guard, under the command of Heinrich Himmler, responsible for the administration of the concentration camps and for carrying out the "Final Solution" |
| Swastika | Symbol of the Nazi party, it was originally an ancient religious symbol |
| Third Reich | Official name of the Nazi regime; ruled from 1933 to 1945 under command of Adolf Hitler |
| Totalitarianism | A government of doctrine in which one political party or group maintains complete control and makes all others illegal |
| Treaty of Versailles | Peace treaty that was isgned at the end of World War I in Versailles, France; its conditions imposed economic hardships on Germany, weakened and humiliated the nation, and led to the popularity of the Nazi movement |
| Yellow Star | The six-pointed Star of David made of yellow cloth and sewn to the clothing of European Jews so Nazis could easily identify them |
| Zyklon-B | The gas used in the gas chambers of the death camps |
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