BrainPop! Holocaust

Which of the following term describes the German government under Hitler?

• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Dictatorship

What was the main function of the Jewish ghettos of Europe? 

• To separate Jews from the rest of the population
• To prevent Jews from owning property
• To allow Jews to better socialize with one another
•  To make sure Jews had easy access to places of worship

Which of the following is an example of genocide? 

• When an individual hates an entire race of people
• When a person is murdered because of his ethnicity
•  When an entire ethnic group is wiped out
•  When ethnic discrimination is legalized by the government

Why did Hitler blame the Jews for Germany's problems?

• The Jews had helped the Allies defeat Germany in World War I
•  It was easy to blame all the country's problems on one minority group 
• Hitler had a bad incident with a Jewish classmate when he was a schoolboy 
•  Hitler's parents were secretly Jewish

Place the following events in sequence: A) Anti-Semitism begins in Europe; B) Six million Jews are murdered; C) Hitler comes to power

•  A, C, B 
• A, B, C 
• C, A, B
• B, A, C

What is a quota?

• A law that makes discrimination legal 
•  A limit on how many people are allowed to participate in something
• A particularly violent form of anti-Semitism
•  A form of dictatorship

What effect did the Nuremberg Laws have on Germany's Jewish population?

• They forced the entire Jewish population into concentration camps
• They restricted the rights Jewish people had
• They prevented Jews from living inside ghettos
• They made being Jewish a crime

What was the Final Solution?

• America's war plan against Germany
• A law that denied Jews citizenship
•  A Jewish revolt in the Warsaw ghetto
• The Nazis' plan to murder all European Jews

As soon as Hitler took over, he began persecuting Jews. In the previous sentence, what does "persecuting" mean?

• Killing 
• Discriminating against 
• Isolating 
• Passing laws against

What other groups did the Nazis target for extermination?

• Gypsies and Communists 
• People of French descent 
• Anyone who wasn't a Nazi 
• Catholic people