The Holocaust and WWII Vocabulary Test

the act of continually treating others in a cruel way because of race, religion, politics, or some other difference; or the condition of being treated in this way.

• Allies

• liberate

• persecution

• Semitism

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a prefix that means "against" or "opposed to."

• concentration camp

• anti-

• Semitism

• genocide

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

a member of the political party that held power in Germany from 1933 to 1945.

• concentration camp

• Nazi

• Allies

• liberation

to free or let out.

• anti-

• liberation

• liberate

• genocide

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

the customs, manners, and ideas characteristic of the Semites, especially the Jews.

• Allies

• genocide

• persecution

• Semitism

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a prison camp in which large numbers of political prisoners, aliens, or those considered undesirable are confined and sometimes executed.

• anti-

• concentration camp

• holocaust

• liberate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a great destruction by fire.

• resistance

• holocaust

• liberate

• concentration camp

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

the intentional attempt to exterminate all members of a certain race, nationality, or ethnic group.

• liberate

• concentration camp

• Semitism

• genocide

the act of liberating, or an instance or state of being liberated.

• resistance

• liberation

• Nazi

• anti-

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

In World War II, the nations that fought against the Axis, especially Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States.

• resistance

• Allies

• Semitism

• liberate

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C