MAUS VOCAB

ill-treatment or hostility often due to race or political or religious beliefs

• Persecution

• Acceptance
• Segregation
• Prejudice

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An organized massacre of or attack on Jews

• genocide

• annihilation
• pogrom

• holocaust

False or semi-true information used by a government, political party, or some other group that was intended to sway the opinions of the population; The Nazis had a minister of propaganda, Joseph Gobbels, who sought to establish enemies in the public mind through the use and distribution of propaganda

• Misinformation
• Deception
• Propaganda
• Manipulation

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Germen word for empire

• Kaiserreich
• Reich

• Königreich

• Herrschaft

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

The germen parliament; On February 27, 1933, a staged fire burned the Reichstag building. A month later, on March 23, 1933, the Reichstag approved the Enabling Act which gave Hitler unlimited dictatorial power.

• Gestapo

• Nurem

• Kampf

• Reichstag

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Stood for the abbreviation of Schutzstaffel, the black-shifted elite gaurd of Hitler; Later the SS was the political police in charge of the concentration and death camps. They established control of the police and security systems, forming the basis of the Nazi police state, and were the major instrument of terror in the concentration camps and occupied Europe.

• GG

• EE

• KK

• SS

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

an ancient symbol, based on a good luck symbol from India, appropriated by the Nazis as their emblem

• Yin Yang
• Swastika
• $wa$tika

• Cross

The "third empire" of Germany; it was the Nazi name for Germany, declared by Hitler, and was used from January 1933 to April 1945

• Fifth Reich
• Second Reich
• Third Reich
• Fourth Reich

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The peace treaty that officially ended World War 1 between Germany and the allies; It placed all the blame on Germany.

• Treaty of Beligum

• Treaty of Versaille

• Treaty of Berlin
• Treaty of Germany

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A predominarty Jewish area in the capital of Poland; In 1940, it was enclosed and walled in, and eventually confined nearly 500,00 Jews. Starvation, disease, unsanitary conditons, and shootings led to the deaths of 45,000 individuals in 1941.

• Krakow Ghetto
• Berlin Ghetto
• Warsaw Ghetto
• Vienna Ghetto

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7