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Unit 4 Concepts 3&4

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World War II   A time period from 1939-1945 during which world powers fought in part due to Germany and Japan’s desire to expand their empires.  
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Holocaust   Term used for the systematic destruction of the Jewish people of Eastern Europe by Hitler  
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genocide   The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic or religious group.  
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ghetto   An area of a city to which Jews were restricted and from which they were forbidden to leave  
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concentration camp   Work or death camps located in Germany and Poland to incarcerate and exterminate Jews and other “undesirables”  
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philosophies   Ideas attributed to a particular group or culture  
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superpowers   Term used to describe the United States and the Soviet Union as they entered the Cold War  
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Cold War   A struggle that erupted between the Soviet Union and its former allies over ideas about freedom, government and economics. It is called this because there was no shooting  
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reunification   The process in which East and West Germany reunited into one country  
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capitalism   An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state/government.  
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anti-Semistism   Racial bias or prejudice against Jews  
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Axis Powers   The countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan that were defeated by the Allied Powers in World War II.  
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Allied Powers   The countries of Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union who fought against the Axis Powers.  
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Iron Curtain   A symbolic line that divided the communist countries in Eastern Europe and capitalist democracies in Western Europe.  
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