Racism and Segregation in the 1920s and 1930s (Grade 11 NSC Matric History): Flashcards

Ideology that races differ in intelligence, character; some superior

Enforced separation of people into racial groups in daily life

Legal systems to keep African Americans in inferior positions

Racist org; increased membership; promoted segregation & violence

Promoted sterilising people considered 'defective'

Non-Aryan and subhuman (Jews, Poles, Roma, Slavs)

Systematic murder of 6 million Jewish people

98% white; sought to remain racially pure

Aboriginal children taken from parents, placed in missions

April 1937