WQ19: Holocaust

What was the name for the systemativ, bureaucratic, state-sponsored mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis.

• Holocaust

• Genocide

• Appeasement

• Segregation

The word Holocaust is Greek for:

• Rule By The Righteous

• Sacrifice By Fire

• Survival of the Fittest

• Out of Many, One

The Jewish population was defined as the "other" through legalized discrimination. All of the following support this claim EXCEPT:

• Through economic barriers that made it illegal for people of Jewish lineage to join the civil service, own their own business, and be doctors or lawyers.

• Through the creation of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book and forced mandate for all school aged children to read it.

• Through the Nuremberg Laws that defined who was and wasn't Jewish

• Through propaganda that showed the Jewish population as inferior to their Aryan neighbors.

How did the Nazis encourage the Jews to leave Germany & other occupied countries?

• Through fear as a result of events like Kristallnacht.

• Through ghettoization efforts that made living conditions difficult.

• Through discriminatory laws such as the banning of Jewish artists and academics from public universities.

• Through financial incentives that rewards those willing to leave voluntarily.

What was it called when Jews were forcibly removed to segregated sections of Eastern European cities?

• Discrimination

• Emigration

• Ghettoization

• Deportation

How many innocent civilians were murdered by the Nazis?

• 11 Million

• 6 Million

• 2.5 Million

• None

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 or her 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 WWII.

• It was easy to blame all the country's problems on one minority group (scapegoating).

• Hitler had a bad incident with a Jewish classmate when he was a schoolboy.

• Hitler's parents were secretly Jewish.

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

• They forced the entire Jewish population into concentaration camps.

• They restricted the rights Jewish people had.

• They prevented Jews from living inside ghettors.

• 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