WWII AND HOLOCAUST KEY WORDS

Question 1

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 1

peace treaty agreed after WW1

Question 2

dictator

Answer 2

an individual who holds absolute and centralised power in a government or state, often maintained through force

Question 3

Appeasement

Answer 3

a policy of trying to make someone stop being aggressive by giving them what they want

Question 4

Isolationism

Answer 4

A policy of avoiding political, economic, or military entanglements with other countries e.g. the USA followed a policy of isolationism

Question 5

Lebanstraum

Answer 5

living space (for German people)

Question 6

Anti- semitism

Answer 6

Hostility or prejudice against Jewish people

Question 7

pogrom

Answer 7

violent attacks directed against an ethnic minority

Question 8

stereotype

Answer 8

a widely held but very simplified and often untrue view of a group of people

Question 9

assimilate

Answer 9

to become absorbed and integrated into a society or culture

Question 10

fascism

Answer 10

a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism

Question 11

communism

Answer 11

a theory or system of social organisation in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs

Question 12

capitalism

Answer 12

an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners doer profit, rather than by the state

Question 13

genocide

Answer 13

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation for ethnic group

Question 14

massacre

Answer 14

the deliberate killing of lots of people

Question 15

persecute

Answer 15

to deliberately treat badly

Question 16

expel

Answer 16

to force people to leave a city/country

Question 17

pope

Answer 17

head of the Church

Question 18

assassinate

Answer 18

to deliberately kill a person for political or religious reasons

Question 19

social Darwinism

Answer 19

The idea that human beings could be grouped into different ‘races’ and that ‘races are coin constant competition with each other. The Nazi’s believed that Germans belong to the strongest ‘race’ the ‘Aryan race’

Question 20

Volksgemeinschaft (Peoples community)

Answer 20

The Nazis wanted all German people to work together to make their country powerful and proud. Unity and loyalty to the German nation were more important that individual needs.

Question 21

Kristallnacht

Answer 21

Kristallnacht (‘Night of the Broken Glass’) was the act of concerted violence by Nazis throughout Germany and Austria against Jewish people and their property on the nigh of 9-10 November 1938