Socials quiz

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Annex

When a country adds territory or

A building added on to a main building

Aryan

A mythical blonde hair blue eyed race of people that the Nazis claimed were superior to other races

Fascism

A dictatorship

Genocide

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

Gestapo

Secret nazi police

Ghetto

Sections of cities in which the nazis forced the entire jewish population of the surrounding area to live

Kristallnacht

An organized pogrom 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

Pogrom

Organized act of violence against jewish communities

Ration

Fixed amount of something allowed to a person during a time of shortage

Scapegoat

Someone blamed for something they didn’t do

Segregation

Keeping a person apart from others

Reich (Third)

Nazi germany

Wehrmacht

The German Army

Agrarian

Having to do with farming

Cottage Industry

Manufacturing done in the home prior to industrialization

Coniferous

Trees that produce pine cones

Deciduous

Trees that shed leaves every year

Fjord

A long narrow deep inlet of the ocean

Industry

Economic activity centered around manufacturing

Industrialization

The process of moving from an agrarian to a manufacturing 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

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

Nationalism

Putting your countries believes above everything else. Super patriotism. Belief that your country, people are etter than others. “Anything you can do, i can do better. Why? Because i am (insert name of nationality here)

Ore

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

Reparation

Repayment for something you did wrong

Rural

Countryside or pertaining to countryside

Taiga

A band of coniferous spine forest in northern latitudes just south of the tundra

Tedious

Long, slow, and dull

Telegraph

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

Textile

Cloth or pertaining to the production of cloth

Tundra

Vast treeless lads found in the arctic