GSE-Unit 3 Vocab #2 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Allies | the victorious alliance of nations (Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union , the United States) in World War II |
anti-Semitism | racial bias or prejudice against Jews |
Axis | the defeated alliance (Germany, Japan and Italy) of nations in World War II |
concentration camp | general term for a Nazi-controlled detention center(examples: Auschwitz-Birkenau,Bergen-Belsen,Buchenwald.Dachau)where Jews, et al 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 (example: Warsaw,Poland) |
Hitler, Adolf | chancellor of Germany and leader (dictator) 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 (WWII) | a global conflict occurring between 1939 and 1945 |
Cold War | a state of political hostility between countries without an outright declaration of war (example: what existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990) |
Berlin | the capital of Germany which was divided during the Cold War between the communist eastern side from the democratic western side (by the a 91-mile wall surrounding West Berlin from 1961 through 1989) from 1945 to 1989 |
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) | the official name of West Germany during the Cold War (supported by US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1989) |
German Democratic Republic (GDR) | the official name of East Germany during the Cold War (supported by the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1989) |
Communist Bloc | communist states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War (AKA-the Warsaw Pact) |
iron curtain | a term coined by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill describing the sociopolitical and ideological divide between the democratic West and communist East (especially the Soviet Union)in Europe during the Cold War. |
Berlin Wall | a 91-mile wall surrounding West Berlin from 1961 through 1989 ( separating the communist eastern side from the democratic western side) |
German reunification | the reintegration of West and East Germany into a single nation in 1990 |
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