Social Studies WWII

Annex

When country adds territory

Anti-Semitism

Hostility or prejudice against jewish people

Aryan

Mythical blond hair blue eye race of people that the Nazis claimed were the superior race.

Concentration Camp

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

Discrimination

Unjust treatment of people based upon ethnic background, age or sex

Fascism

Dictatorship where country is prioritized over the people

Fuhrer

Leader in Germany Hitler gave himself

Genocide

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

Gestapo

Nazi secret police

Ghetto

Sections of cities where Nazis forces Jewish people population of the surrounding area to live

Holocaust

Murder of approximately 12 million people by the Nazi government in the 1930&1940

Kristallnacht

Organized program against the german jews during the night of Nov. 9 1938

Lebensraum

“Living in space” the German belief that the Nazis needed more territory in which to live comfortably

Nazi

National socialist German Workers party. Hitlers political party

Pogrom

Organized acts of violence against the Jewish community

Prejudice

Prejudicing people with sufficient knowledge. Often based on stereotypes

Ration

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

Scapegoat

Person blamed for something they did not do

Segregation

Keeping people away from each other

SS- Schutzstaffel

Nazi soldiers. The SS carried out the holocaust

Stereotype

Oversimplified belief about a group of people without taking into consideration individual differences.

Reich (Third)

Nazi Germany (third empire)

Wehrmacht

The german army