 | Term | Definition |
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aggressor nation |
powerful nation that takes over a less powerful nation |
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Allies |
United States, Britain, France, Russia |
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Aryan |
Master Race |
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Axis Powers |
Germany, Italy, Japan |
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"Canada" |
Warehouse at Auschwitz |
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concentration camp |
prison camp that used systematic starvation as a way to kill Jews |
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contragenic |
enemies of the state (Jews, Slavs, Communists, Gypsys) |
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Crystal Night |
November 9, 1938 |
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death camp |
a camp built especially for killing Jews with gas |
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Final Solution |
the murder of Jews by gassing |
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Fuhrer |
Hitler's nickname- My Supreme |
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Genocide |
the extermination of a race of people |
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Gestapo |
Nazi secret state police |
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ghettos |
a special in cities for Jews to live |
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Holocaust |
"great burning" |
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kapo |
Jewish prisoner in charge of other prisoners |
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Mein Kampf |
"My Struggle"- bible of the Nazi movement |
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Nazi |
National Socialist German Workers Party |
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Nuremberg Trials |
November 20, 1945 |
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Operation Reinhard |
nickname for the murder of Jews in Poland |
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partisans |
groups of escaped Jews living in the forest, resisting Nazis |
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pogrom |
a surprise attack on a defenseless Jewish community |
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propaganda |
a deliberate method to spread ideas |
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resistance |
secret network all over Europe |
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SA |
"brownshirts" |
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SD |
secret service |
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Sonderkommando |
Jews who moved bodies out of gas chambers |
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SS |
"blackshirts"-Elite group in Nazi death camps |
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selection |
deciding who would live and who would die |
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Semite |
Jews are a race of people- after 1875 |
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Star of David |
Yellow 6-pointed star- symbol of the Jewish faith |
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Swastika |
Symbol of the Nazi party |
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Third Reich |
1933-1945- supposed to be the 1,000 year empire |
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typhus |
highly contagious disease spread by lice |
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Zionists |
Jews who believed in the eventual nation of Israel |
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zyklon B |
gas used in death camps |
