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Vocabulary List #5
Nazism and Post Wars
Term | Definition |
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Great Depression | A deep, worldwide economic slump, resulted from the stock market crash in USA in 1929; lasted through 1930s, caused hardship around the world |
Slump | A marked decline |
Adolf Hitler | German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He and the Nazi party were responsible for the mass murder of millions of people in the Holocaust |
Mein Kampf | book written by Adolf Hitler in 1925, explained his hatred towards what he believed were world's 2 evils, communism & Judaism. He wanted to destroy them. |
Nazi Party | National Socialist German Workers’ Party.; German political party led by Adolf Hitler following WWI, it controlled Germany through a dictatorship |
Prejudice | judging someone or having an idea about them before you actually know anything about them. |
Propaganda | ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread to help a cause, a political leader, or a government. |
World War II | (1939-1945) the second major global conflict of the 1900’s. |
Holocaust | The mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during World War II. The Nazis murdered 6 million Jews and 5 million people from other groups. |
Marshall Plan | A U.S. recovery plan, passed in 1948, that offered money to help Western Europe rebuild their countries after World War II. |
European Union | (EU)-created in 1992 as an economic and political partnership among 27 European countries. |