Unit 4 Concepts 3&4 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
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. |
Holocaust | Term used for the systematic destruction of the Jewish people of Eastern Europe by Hitler |
genocide | The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic or religious group. |
ghetto | An area of a city to which Jews were restricted and from which they were forbidden to leave |
concentration camp | Work or death camps located in Germany and Poland to incarcerate and exterminate Jews and other “undesirables” |
philosophies | Ideas attributed to a particular group or culture |
superpowers | Term used to describe the United States and the Soviet Union as they entered the Cold War |
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 |
reunification | The process in which East and West Germany reunited into one country |
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. |
anti-Semistism | Racial bias or prejudice against Jews |
Axis Powers | The countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan that were defeated by the Allied Powers in World War II. |
Allied Powers | The countries of Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union who fought against the Axis Powers. |
Iron Curtain | A symbolic line that divided the communist countries in Eastern Europe and capitalist democracies in Western Europe. |
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