Holocaust Review

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What was the Holocaust?

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A period of mass extermination of a group of people for ethnic, racial, religious or other reasons.

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What were the causes of the Holocaust? Options: Political issues only, Economic factors only, Religious issues, political issues, economic factors, and social prejudice, Religious issues only

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Religious issues, political issues, economic factors, and social prejudice

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Who orchestrated the Holocaust?

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The Nazis

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What is genocide?

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The mass extermination of a group of people for ethnic, racial, religious or other reasons.

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What were the Nuremberg Laws?

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Laws that stripped Jews of their German citizenship and civil liberties.

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What was Kristallnacht?

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Violence in which Jewish shops and buildings were destroyed and synagogues were burned down.

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What were ghettos?

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Places where Jews were effectively imprisoned

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What were the living conditions like in ghettos?

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Appalling, with disease, hunger and overcrowding killing tens of thousands.

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What were concentration camps?

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Places where Jews did forced labor and were subjected to appalling conditions, disease, brutal treatment, and starvation.

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What were death camps?

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Places where Jews were transported to in cattle car trains from all over Europe and murdered in gas chambers and cremated