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World War II
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Allies | the victorious alliance of nations in World War II |
anti-Semitism | racial bias or prejudice against Jews |
Axis | the defeated alliance of nations in World War II |
concentration camp | general term for a Nazi-controlled detention center where Jews, and others were detained, used as forced labor, and exterminated |
ghetto | a cordoned off area of city where Jews were isolated from the rest of the German population |
Adolf Hitler | chancellor of Germany and leader of the Nazi regime during World War II |
Holocaust | the Nazi internment, forced labor, and extermination of nearly 11 million people during World War II, an estimated 6 million of whom were Jews |
propaganda | information, usually misleading or biased, designed to promote a particular political ideology |
World War II | a global conflict occurring between 1939 and 1945 |