social studies quiz 5/27

Annex

1. A building added on to a main building 

2. When a country adds territory

Anti-Semitism

Hostility to or prejudice against jewish people

Aryan

A mythical, blonde haired, blue eyed race of people that the Nazi’s claimed were superior to other races.

Concentration Camp

A prison camp for people that have not committed a crime but society feels must be separated from the general population

Discrimination

The unjust treatment of people based upon ethnic background, age, or sex.

Fascism

A dictatorship in which the nation is prioritized over individual people and their freedoms

Fuhrer

Leader in German. The title Adolf Hitler gave himself

Genocide

The muder of a group of people based upon ethnicity or other perceived difference with the aim of destroying that group

Gestapo

The Nazi secret police

Ghetto

Sections of cities in which the Nazi’s forced the entire Jewish population of the surrounding area to live

Holocaust

The muder of approximately 12 million people by the Nazi government in the 1930’s and 1940’s

Kristallnacht

An organized program against German Jews during the night of November 9 - 10, 1938

Lebensraum

“Living space” The nazi belief that the German people needed more territory in which to live comfortably 9 to be taken from other countries)

Nazi

The National Socialist German Workers Party. Adolf Hitler’s political party

Pogrom

Organized acts of violence against Jewish communities

Prejudice

Prejudging peopleithout sufficient knowlange,  often based on stereotypes

Ration

A fixed amount of something allowed to a person during a time of shortage

Scapegoat

A person blamed for something they’re not responsible for

Segregation

Keeping a person(s) apart from others

SS- Schutzstaffel

Nazi ( as opposed to German) soldiers. The SS carried out the Holocaust.

Stereotype

An oversimplified belief about a group of people without taking into consideration individual differences

Agrarian

Having to do with farming

Alliance

An agreement to work together

Cottage Industry

Manufacturing done in the home prior to industrialization

Coniferous

Trees that produce pine cones

Deciduous

Trees that shed their leaves each year

Economy

What, where, why, how work is done, wealth is created, resources are distributed, and money is handled in a society

Fjord

A long, narrow, deep inlet of the ocean

Imperialism

Having control (or in some cases just influence) over people and territory outside your own country. Having colonies. Having on empire

Industry

Economic activity centered around manufacturing

Industrialization

The process of moving from an agrarian to a manufacturing (factory based) economy

Loom

A machine for making fabric from yarn or thread

Manufacturing

Building or creating something using machinery

Mass Production

The ability to make a large number of a single item or of many items in a short amount of time (generally in a factory rather than by hand)

Mechanize

The process in which machines take over work from people or animals

Militarism

Glorifying the military in a society and modeling the society after the military

Monotonous

boring and repetitive

Morse Code

A code in which letters are represented by long and short signals of light or sound

Nationalism

Putting your own country's interests above everything else. Super patriotism. Belief that in your own country, people are better than others. “Anything you can do, I can do, I can do better. Why? Because i am american

Ore

A solid material in the earth from which a metal can be extracted

Productivity

The amount of work that can be done in a given amount of time  “I am more productive when I do my homework with my phone turned off.”

Reparation

Repayment for something you did wrong “You break it you buy it”

Rural

COuntryside or pertaining to the countryside

Taiga

A band of coniferous (pine) forest in northern latitudes just south of the tundra

Tedious

Long, slow, and dull

Telegraph

A system of transmitting messages (generally using morse code) over a distance along a wire

Textile

Cloth or pertaining to the production of cloth

Trench

A long narrow ditch. Soldiers in WW1 faced off against each other in trenches for protection

Tundra

Vast treeless lands found in the arctic

Urban

A city-like environment