Rachit's WWI, WWII, Industrial Rev, & Holocaust Gr 7 SS VOCAB

Annex

A building added to a main building / country adds territory

Anti-Semitism

hostility/prejudice to Jewish people

Aryan Race (German)

mythical blonde hair/blue eyed race - Nazi claims superior to other races

Concentration Camp :)

prison camp for people who haven’t committed a crime, but society feels must be separated from the general population

Discrimination :(

unjust treatment of people based on ethnicity, age, gender- sometimes race.

Facism

dictatorship, nation is prioritized over citizens (their freedom)

ideals placed over citizens

Fuhrer

“leader” in German (Hitler gave title to himself)

Genocide

murder of a group of people based on ethnicity or other differences--trying to destroy that group

Gestapo

Nazi secret police

Ghetto

sections in cities where Nazi’s forced Jews of the surrounding area to live

Holocaust

harsh murder of ~12 million by Nazis in 1930-1940s

Kristallnacht

organized pogrom (riot/attack) on German Jews during the night of November 9-10th, 1938

Lebensraum

“Living Space” - Nazi belief that Germans needed more territory to live comfortably (take from other countries)

Nazi

National Socialist German Workers Party (Hitler’s party) AKA Nationalsozialistische !!!!

Pogrom

organized acts of violence against Jews

Prejudice

pre-judging without sufficient knowledge (stereotyping)

LE RATIONS!!!

fixed amount of something allowed to a people during a time of shortage (of food, water- famines, etc.)

Scapegoat

person/group blamed for something they aren’t responsible for

Segregation

keeping people apart from others

SS (social studies???) - Schutzstaffel

Nazi soldiers (NOT German army) carrying out Holocaust

Stereotyping

oversimplified belief about a group without seeing individual differences

Agrarian

Having to do with farming (agriculture)

Alliance

agreement to work together

Cottage industry

Manufacturing done at home before industrialization

Coniferous

Trees that produce pine cones

Deciduous

Trees that shed their leaves annually

Economy (AKA econ!!)

what/where/why/how work is done, wealth $ is created, resources are distributed, & how money $ is handled

Fjord

a long narrow/deep inlet of the ocean - carved by glaciers

Imperialism

controlling + influencing people and territory outside of the “mother” country (empires & colonies!)

Industry

Economic $ activity centered around manufacturing

Industrialization

Process of moving from an agrarian to a manufacturing (factory based) $ economy

Loom

A machine for making fabric from yarn/thread

Manufacturing

building/creating something using machinery

Mass production

ability to make a large number # of a single/many items in a short amount of time (usually in a factory-not by hand)

Mechanize

Machines taking over work from people/animals (the process!)

Militarism

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

Monotonous

Boring / Repetitive

NONVERBAL- Morse Code

Letters are represented by long & short signals of light/sound

Nationalism

putting your own country’s interests above everything else (super patriotism). Belief that your country/people are better than other-superior: “Anything you can do, I can do better because I’m ___________!” (I’m KOOL!!!)

Ore

A solid material from which a metal can be extracted

Productivity

Amount of work that can be done in a given amount of time (productive doing HW without phone)

Rural

countryside

tedious

long/boring/dull (like S.S. class)

Reperations

Repayment for something you did wrong (You break it, you buy it)

Taiga

A band of pine first (coniferous!) in northern latitude just south of the tundra

Telegraph

system of transmitting messages over a long distance along a wire (usually Morse Code)

textiles

Cloths & production of cloths

Trench

Long narrow ditch - WWI soldiers faced off in trenches for protection against each other

Tundra

Vast treeless lands in the Arctic

urban

city-like

Reich (3rd empire)

Nazi Germany (3rd empire)

Wehrmacht

GERMAN ARRRMYYYYYYYYYY!