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american history-
american history-part II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aggression | hostile, unprovoked action |
| annihilation | the act of destroying completely; wiping out |
| anti-Communist | against communism |
| anti-Semitism | prejudice against Jewish people |
| apathy | a lack of interest or concern; indifference |
| arsenal | government buildings where arms and other war supplies are manufactured or stored; war supplies |
| Axis Powers | alliance formed during World War II between Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| bigotry | stubborn and blind attachment to one’s own beliefs and opinions with no tolerance for beliefs opposed to them |
| blitzkrieg | a war conducted with great speed and force |
| Bolsheviks | Russian members of the Socialist Party led by Lenin; formed the Communist Party in 1918 |
| communism | belief in common ownership of all property by the people |
| concentration camps | prisons operated by Nazi Germany in which Jews and other groups considered to be enemies of Adolf Hitler were starved while doing slave labor or were tortured and murdered |
| death camps | Nazi extermination centers where Jews and non-Jews were brought to be put to death as part of Hitler’s Final Solution |
| dictator | a ruler with complete power |
| embargo | an enforced halt on trade imposed by one government on another government |
| fascism | system of government that places all power in the state and its leader; promotes an extreme form of nationalism and one-party rule |
| genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national, or religious group |
| ghetto | sealed areas established in poor sections of cities where most Jews were forced to live before and during World War II; in modern times, it has come to mean sections of cities where minorities live due to socio-economic barriers |
| German-Soviet treaty | pact between Germany and the Soviet Union not to attack one another |
| Holocaust | the attempted extermination of all Jews in Europe and other groups by Nazis during World War II, resulting in the mass murder of about six million Jews |
| intolerance | unwillingness to respect or try to understand customs, ideas, or beliefs that are different from one’s own |
| monarch | a person who rules over a kingdom or empire |
| moderates | people who want change to take place gradually |
| Munich Pact | pact between Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany that gave Germany part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudentenland |
| National Socialists (Nazis) | political party in Germany led by Adolf Hitler |
| neutral | not taking sides in a quarrel or war |
| persecution | unfair and cruel treatment of a person or group |
| pogrom | violent and bloody acts, including massacres, carried out against Jews |
| revolutionaries | a person blamed for the mistakes of others |
| socialism | system of government in which the state owns all factories and farms |
| totalitarian dictatorship | a government that exercises total control over every aspect of the public and private lives of its citizens |
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