Social Studies Quiz World Wars

Annex

1. A building added 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

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

Gestapo

The Nazi secret service

Ghetto

Sections of cities in which the Nazi’s 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 (to be taken from other countries).

Pogrom

Organized acts of violence against Jewish communities

Prejudice

Prejudging people without sufficient knowledge, often

Scapegoat

A person blamed for something that they are not responsible for

SS- Schutzstaffel

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

Reich (Third)

Nazi Germany (Third Empire)

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 their leaves each year

Industrialization

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

Loom

A machine for making fabric from yarn or thread

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 own country’s interests above everything else. Super patriotism. Belief that your country, people are better 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 a metal can be extracted

Reparation

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

Taiga

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

Tedious

Long, slow, and dull

Textile

Cloth or pertaining to the production of cloth

Trench

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

Tundra

Vast treeless lands found in the Arctic

Urban

A city-like environment