SS

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 influence over people and territory outside your own country. Having colonies. Having an empire

Industry

Economic activity centered around manufacturing

Industrialization

The process of moving from and 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 is generally in a factory rather than by hand.

Mechanize

The process in which machines take over work from other 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 interest above everything else. Super patriotism. Belief that your own country, people are better than others

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

Reparation

Repayment for something you did wrong

Rural

Countryside or pertaining to a countryside

Taiga

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

Tedious

Long slow and dull

Telegraph

A system of transmitting messages more likely using morse code over a long 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 Artic

Urban

A city-like environment

Annex

A building added on to a main building

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 feel must be separated from the general population

Discrimination

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

Fascism

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

Fuhrer

Leader in German, The title Adolf Hitler gave himself

Genocide

The murder 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 Nazis forced the entire Jewish population of the surrounding area to live

Holocaust

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

Kristallnacht

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

Lebensraum

The “Living space" The Nazi belief that German people needed more territory in which to live comfortably,

Nazi

The National Socialist German Workers Party. Hitlers political party

Pogrom

Organized acts of violence against Jewish communities

Prejudice

Prejudging people without sufficient knowledge, often based on stereotypes

Ration

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

Scapegoat

A person blamed for something that they are not responsible for

Segregation

Keeping a person apart from others

SS- Schutzstaffel

Nazi soldiers. The SS carried out the Holocaust

Stereotype

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

Reich (Third)

Nazi Germany, Third Empire

Wehrmacht

The German Army