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The Holocaust
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| also known as the Second World War,was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 | WWII |
| England , United States and Russia are the countries that opposed the Axis powers during WWII. | Allies |
| (Germany, Japan, Italy) were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces. | Axis powers |
| Ethnic group that was targeted by Hitler for extinction. | Jews |
| Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. | Nazi Party |
| One who sets free | liberator |
| The mass extermination or expulsion of people belonging to one ethnic or religious group by those of another. | Ethnic cleansing |
| Political and military tension after World War II between powers of the Western Bloc (the United States, and Japan) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact). | Cold War |
| The two countries that had the ability to influence world events and project world wide power were the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US). They were known as....? | Superpowers |
| Genocide is the systematic destruction of all or a racial, ethnic, religious or national group via the (a) Killing of members of the group. | Genocide |
| acts of outrageous cruelty | Atrocities |
| camps during World War II (1939–45) built by Nazi Germany to systematically kill millions of people by execution (primarily by gassing) and extreme work under starvation conditions. | Death Camps |
| camps during World War II (1939–45) built by Nazi Germany to systematically kill millions of people by execution (primarily by gassing) and extreme work under starvation conditions. | Anti-Semitism |
| was a network of German Nazi camps and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during WWII. | Auschwitz concentration camp |
| Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded this country on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. | Soviet Union |
| A Soviet dictator that placed most of the Eastern European countries under communist control. They were known as the eastern block. | Joseph Stalin |
| built in 1969, it separated the communist party of the city from the free section. | Berlin Wall |
| In 1949 the western European countries plus the USA and Canada formed this new alliance and organization for protection. | NATO |
| The Berlin Wall was destroyed and Germany began the process of unification. | November 1989 |
| The end of the Cold War between Russia and the United States. | 1991 |
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