The Upstairs Room Section 2 Vocabulary

A violent attack against Jewish people and their properties in Germany and Austria

• Propaganda

• Oppression

• Kristallnacht

• Synagogue

Performed as a result of a sudden inner impulse or inclination and without planning beforehand

• Spontaneous

• Persecution

• Conflict

• Vandalize

A form of communication used to distribute information. The information is designed to make people feel a certain way (scared, angry) or to believe a certain thing

• Synagogue

• Propaganda

• Foreshadow

• Oppression

To be a warning of

• Persecution

• Discriminate

• Foreshadow

• Vandalize

A struggle or clash between opposing forces (example: Germany vs. Poland)

• Conflict

• Spontaneous

• Synagogue

• Discriminate

The act of continually treating others in a cruel way because of race, religion, politics, or some other difference

• Persecution

• Oppression

• Vandalize

• Conflict

A place of worship for people of the Jewish religion

• Persecution

• Discriminate

• Synagogue

• Foreshadow

To deliberately destroy or damage (public or private property)

• Oppression

• Discriminate

• Vandalize

• Propaganda

The unjust or cruel use of power or authority over a group of people

• Oppression

• Conflict

• Kristallnacht

• Spontaneous

Unfair treatment of one particular person or group of people

• Foreshadow

• Discriminate

• Synagogue

• Persecution