Holocaust Vocabulary Quiz

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Holocaust Vocabulary Quiz

• Language Arts English
• Mr. Jeffers

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Directions
If youre using an iPod, simply scroll through
each of the slides to view the vocabulary word
first. Then, on the slide following each
vocabulary word, youll find the definition.
Enjoy!
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stereotype
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stereotype

•  a standardized mental picture that describes an
  oversimplified opinion or prejudiced attitude a
  label of identity placed on a person or group of
  people, e.g. Jock or Prep.

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prejudice
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prejudice

• An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed
  beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or
  reasonoftentimes regarding racial, religious, or
  national groups.

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racism
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racism

• Hatred or intolerance of another race or people
  from a different ethnic background.

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anti-Semitism
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anti-Semitism

• Prejudice, hostility, or discrimination against
  Jews.

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genocide
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genocide

• The deliberate and systematic killing of a
  national, racial, political, or cultural group

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Holocaust
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Holocaust

• The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in
  Nazi concentration camps during World War II

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Gestapo
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Gestapo

• The German state secret police during the Nazi
  regime between 1933-1945. It was notorious for
  its brutal methods.

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oppression
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oppression

• the exercise of power in a cruel or unjust manner.

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pogrom
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pogrom

• an organized attack or massacre, especially
  targeting Jews.

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Nazi
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Nazi

• a member of the National Socialist German
  Workers party in Germany, which in 1933, under
  Adolf Hitler, seized control of the country,
  disallowed all opposition, promoted
  anti-Semitism, and Hitlers supremacy. The party
  was abolished in 1945.

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propaganda
Hitler is building. Help him. Buy German goods.
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propaganda

• Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread
  widely in order to either help or harm a person,
  group, movement, institution, or nation.

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resistance
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resistance

• The act or power of resisting, opposing, or
  withstanding.

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liquidation
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liquidation

• The act of clearing out or doing away with
  products or commodities. In the Holocaust, this
  term was applied to the clearing out of Jews from
  ghettos to the concentration camps or the gassing
  of Jews within the death camps.

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ghetto
Bridge over Chlodna street connecting two sides
of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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ghetto

• A walled-off section of a city in which all Jews
  were required to live.

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concentration camp
View of a section of the barracks and fence at
Auschwitz in 1945 during liberation.
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concentration camp

• A guarded compound for the detention or
  imprisonment of members of ethnic minorities,
  political opponents, Jews, prisoners, et cetera,
  especially any camps created by Nazis prior to
  and during World War II.

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liberation
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liberation

• The act of gaining equal rights or full social or
  economic opportunities for a certain group of
  people.
• In WWII, this refers to the liberation of Jews
  and other oppressed people from the concentration
  camps.

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death camp
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death camp

• A concentration camp in which the inmates are
  unlikely to survive or to which they have been
  sent to be executed.
• There were six death camps during World War II
  Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Madjanek,
  Chelmno, and Belzec

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tolerance
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tolerance

• A fair and objective attitude toward those whose
  opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality
  differ from ones own.

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ostracism
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ostracism

• Exclusion from social acceptance, privileges,
  rights, and friendship.

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communist
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communist

• A person who believes in a system of government
  based on the holding of all property and goods in
  common the government actually owns all property
  and distributes it to the people. The Soviet
  Union was a communist country during WWII.

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socialist
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socialist

• A person who lives in a social system in which a
  community owns property, goods, and land together.

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allies
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allies

• People that have entered into an alliance, unity,
  league, marriage, et cetera.
• From an American perspective, in WWII, the allies
  were comprised of the United States, France,
  Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales), and
  Russia.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau
Entrance to Auschwitz I Arbeit Macht Frei
means Work Makes You Free.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau

• A network of concentration and death camps built
  by Nazis and located in Poland. Auschwitz was the
  biggest of the concentration camps and accounted
  for approximately1,100,000 deaths of innocent
  people, 90 of whom were Jews.

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bystander
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bystander

• A person present but not involved a chance
  spectator an onlooker

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The Final Solution
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The Final Solution

• A code phrase for a plan to destroy all Jewish
  people. The architect of the plan was one of
  Hitlers right-hand men Heinrich Himmler.

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The Big Lie
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The Big Lie

• The unjust, untrue rumor that Hitler used to
  blame Jews for all unemployment, the loss of
  World War I, and any other serious problem that
  Germany faced. The Nazis spread propaganda all
  around Germany to convince gentiles that The Big
  Lie was true.

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Axis Forces
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Axis Forces

• The alliance between three fascist nations during
  World War II Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Axis
  Forces were the enemy of the United States.