Chapter 3 WW2 Vocab

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation, ethnic group, or religious group with the aim of destroying that group.

• Massacre
• War crimes
• Genocide

Nazi death camps where Jews and other groups were murdered in gas chambers, including Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibor.

• American Camps

• Poland Camps

• Extermination Camps

Areas of cities in Eastern Europe where Jews were forced to live in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions before being deported to concentration and extermination camps.

• Barracks
• Camps
• Ghettos

Prejudice, hatred, or discrimination against Jews.

• Racism
• Islamophobia
• Anti-semitism

The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews and millions of others by Nazi Germany during World War II.

• Genocide
• World War II
• Holocaust

A paramilitary organization that played a key role in carrying out the Nazi regime's genocidal policies.

• Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces)
• SS (Schutzstaffel)
• Gestapo (Secret State Police)

A series of military tribunals held after World War II to prosecute Nazi leaders for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

• Nuremberg Trials
• Tokyo Trials
• Geneva Conventions

The largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, located in Poland, where over a million people, mostly Jews, were murdered.

• Auschwitz
• Belzec
• Poland

A violent attack against Jews in Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938, known as the "Night of Broken Glass."

• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Uprising
• Kristallnacht