Current Events Vocabulary
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- Holocaust
- the mass slaughter of European civilians, especially Jews, by the Nazis during World War II.
- ecosystem
- a community of plants and animals living in an environment that supplies what they need tot survive and thrive.
- ecologist
- a scientist who studies the interrelationship of organisms (living things) and their environments.
- Allied
- the U.S.. the U.K., the Soviet Union, and their World War II allies.
- ghetto
- area of a city where an ethnic or racial group lives or is contained.
- Communist
- a government based on state ownership of land and business. The Communist Party typically allows no opposition.
- SS
- highly feared, elite corps of Nazi soldiers and police.
- crematorium
- a place where bodies are burned.
- patent
- a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention.
- invasive species
- species that enter new ecosystems and multiply, harming native species and their habitats.
- integration
- the inclusion of people of all races on an equal basis into society.
- Allied powers
- the United States and its allies, which opposed Germany, Japan, and Italy during World Warr II