Immigration During the Holocaust Key Terms

The German unification with Austria in 1938.

• Sudetenland

• Anschluss

• Barbarossa

• Lebensraum

"The Night of Broken Glass" pogrom November 9-10 1938

• Kristallnacht

• The Night of Long Knives

• Appeasement

• Kindertransport

The area of Czechoslovakia with a large German population. Hitler demanded it be given to Germany in 1938.

• Munich

• Sudetenland

• Anschluss

• Shanghai

The decision by England and France to give Hitler part of Czechoslovakia, without ever consulting Czechoslovakia.

• Munich Agreement

• Nativism

• Appeasement

• Evian Conference

A limit on the number of arrivals from certain areas/ethnic groups.

• Nativism

• Immigration Quotas

• 1924 Immigration Act

• Immigration Visa

Policy by the British government limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine.

• Immigration Quota

• 1924 Immigration Act

• White Paper of 1939

• Evian Conference

US State Department Official who was known for making Jewish entry into the United States very difficult during the 1930s and 1940s.

• Charles Coughlin

• Breckinridge Long

• Nicholas Winton

• William Dudley Pelley

Being against immigration, wanting to keep a country's resources (especially jobs) for natural born citizens.

• Nativism

• Racism

• Ethnocentrism

• Antisemitism

Catholic priest with a radio show listened to by millions of Americans. Used his show to spread Nazi propaganda and antisemitism.

• William Dudley Pelley

• Breckinridge Long

• Charles Coughlin

• Nicholas Winton

The American wing of the Nazi Party.

• German-American Bund

• Silver Shirts

• Zionism

• Anschluss