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ELA Holocaust
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allies | A group of 26 nations led by Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union; opposed Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWII |
| Annihilate | To totally destroy; to make extinct |
| Antisemitism | Prejudice or discrimination against Jews |
| Aryan | A term used in Nazi Germany to describe non-Jewish people; blonde hair/blue eyes were the “master race” |
| Concentration camp | Prison camps that held large numbers of Jews, minorities, or other enemies of the state (for labor and detention only) |
| Dachau (Da-Cow) | The first Nazi concentration camp in Southern Germany - created in 1933; American troops liberated it in 1945 |
| Death camp | Nazi extermination centers where Jews were brought to be killed; Part of Hitler's “Final Solution” |
| Dictatorship | A country or government ruled by a person who has absolute power |
| Displaced persons | People who are forced to leave their home country as a result of War, persecution, or natural disaster; refugees |
| Gestapo | Secret state police who used brutal methods to investigate resistance to Nazi rule |
| Ghetto | A section of the city where Jews were forced to live, usually with several families living in one house, before being shipped to camps |
| Killing center | “Death factories” - a center for mass murder |
| Persecution | Ill-treatment or hostility often due to race or political or religious beliefs |
| Propaganda | False or semi-true information used by a government, political party, or some other group that was intended to sway the opinions of the population |
| Reichstag | The German parliament |
| Treaty of Versailles | The peace treaty that officially ended World War I between Germany and the allies; signed in 1919 and placed blame on Germany |
| Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | A predominantly Jewish area in the capital of Poland; Starvation, disease, unsanitary conditions, and shootings here led to 45,000 Jews in 1941 |
| Weimar Republic | The German republic was established in 1919 after World War I. It was an experiment in democracy from 1919 to 1933 until Hitler came into power in 1933. |
| World War I | “The Great War” - A brutal international war that began in 1914 and ended in 1918 between the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) and the Allies (France, Russia, Italy, Japan, Great Britain, and the U.S.) |
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