Terms Relating to the Holocaust and World War II

For Social Science 305/ Sonoma State University/ Spring 2002

(You are expected to know their meaning and historical context)

Holocaust NSDAP (German National Socialist Labor Party)
Genocide Wehrmacht
Pogrom .
Concentration Camp Reichs Chancellor
Crematorium Lebensraum
Death Camp Einsatzgruppen ("Special Action Squads")
Zyklon B Third Reich
Zionism "Power Seizure" ("Machtergreifung")
Anti-Semitism SA ("Sturmabteilung"/"Storm Troopers")
Racism SS ("Schutzstaffel"/ "Elite Guard")
Judaism Gestapo
Yiddish/Hebrew Fuehrer and Volk
Ghetto .
"Stab in the Back" Enabling Act
Versailles Treaty Nuremberg Laws
League of Nations Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)
Weimar Republic Munich Conference
Evian Conference Axis Powers
. Nazi-Soviet Pact
Eugenics/Racial Hygiene Blitzkrieg
Fascism .
Nazism Madagascar Plan
Totalitarianism Wannsee Conference
Authoritarianism Judenrein (cleansed of Jews)
Militarism Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Communism "Final solution"
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Perpetrators .
Rescuers .
Liberators .
Survivors .
Mein Kampf .

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