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Vocabulary List #5

Europe History Part 2

TermDefinition
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 which explained his hatred towards what he believed were the world's twin evils, namely communism and Judaism. He wanted to eliminate both in Germany by destroying them.
Nazi Party National Socialist German Workers’ Party. A German political party led by Adolf Hitler following World War I, it controlled Germany through a dictatorship, where nearly all aspects of life were
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.
Communism An economic and political system in which the state, run by a Communist Party, takes over industry and farmland and controls most organizations.
Capitalism  An economic system in which people and companies make most economic decisions and own most of the property. Government plays a secondary role.
Soviet Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), former Communist country in Eastern Europe and northern Asia which was established in 1922. The USSR included 15 other republics such as Russia, Ukraine, and East Germany.
Superpowers a powerful influential nation with a bloc of allies; specifically the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. They were perceived as the two most powerful nations in the world.
Cold War A long period of hostility between Communist the Soviet Union and the democratic West (USA).
Iron Curtain the boundary dividing the Eastern Bloc countries (Communist) and Western Bloc (Democratic) countries during the Cold War.
Berlin Wall A wall built by the East German government in 1961 to divide East and West Berlin; this wall came to symbolize Cold War divisions.
German Reunification the process in 1990 in which the divided Communist East Germany and Democratic West Germany reunited to form the democratic nation of Germany as a result of the end of the Cold War. Berlin also reunited into a single city.
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