The Holocaust FCUS

Poll

How ready are you to learn today?

• Strongly agree - My thinking cap is fully charged.

• Agree - I’m ready.

• Somewhat disagree - I’ll get there.

• Disagree - I need a swift kick.

Open Ended

Why do some people not respond to injustice while other try to prevent injustice?

Multiple Choice

This term was first used in the late 1950’s to describe the systematic torture and murder of Europe’s Jews: ________

• genocide
• Holocaust
• anti-semitism
• Kristallnacht

Multiple Choice

The Hebrew term for the Holocaust is Shoah, which means _______.

• catastrophe

• defiance

• suffering

• fear

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a result of Kristallnacht?

• Germany invaded Poland.

• Many Jews fled Germany.

• The United States declared war on Germany.

• The Nuremberg Laws were passed.

Multiple Choice

What prompted Hitler to stage Kristallnacht?

• Hitler wanted to begin his Final Solution.

• Jewish store owners refused to obey the Nuremberg Laws.

• A Jewish refugee killed a German diplomat in Paris.

• Some 10,000 Jews had fled to Poland.

Multiple Choice

What was the Gestapo?

• the term used to describe Jewish poverty under Nazi rule

• Hitler's Propaganda Agency

• the emigration of Jews from Germany

• the German government's secret police force

Multiple Choice

Why did many Jews remain in Germany even after their sources of income and citizenship had been stripped of them?

• because most had no means by which to flee the German rule

• because many had lives in Germany they were reluctant to give up

• because they believed in the Nazi cause

• because they wanted to spy on the Nazis

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a factor in the restriction of Jewish immigration to the United States?

• Many Americans had anti-Semitic attitudes.

• The law forbade anyone from coming to the United States who would become a burden.

• High unemployment rates in the United States made immigration very unpopular there.

• The United States had already developed plans to invade Germany.

Multiple Choice

The refusal of American officials to allow a ship with Jewish refugees to land in Florida was referred to as _______.

• the Jewish Refusal

• the International Conference on Persecution

• the St. Louis affair

• the Final Solution

Multiple Choice

At the Wannsee Conference, the Nazis determined that they would round up all the Jewish people in Germany and _______.

• keep them in ghettos

• force them to leave

• send them to concentration camps

• ship them to Israel

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of an extermination camp?

• to keep the Jewish people from participating in the government

• to kill as many Jews as possible in gas chambers

• to prevent the Jews from fleeing Germany

• to rid the Jewish people of their customs

Multiple Choice

What did the Nuremberg Laws forbid?

• the ability of Jews to participate in government

• marriage between Jews and non-Jews

• the Jewish flight from Germany

• the persecution of German people