Holocaust Webquest

What is genocide?

• the planned extermination of a particular ethnic group or nation

• the murder of a group of people using genetic warfare

• when a group of people dies because of a shared genetic abnormality

• a planned murder of a person with a genetic mutation

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is anti-Semitism?

• hatred of  United Stated citizens
• hatred of Jews
• hatred of Aryans
• hatred of Hitler

What did the Aryan race look like?

• Blond hair and blue eyes
• Brown skin and brown eyes
• Black hair and brown eyes
• Brown hair and blue eyes

What were the Nuremberg laws?

• Laws that protected Jews.
• Racial laws against Jews

Which of the following statements about life in the ghetto is NOT true?

• Many families lived together in each apartment.
• There was plenty of food for families to share.
• There were many contagious diseases.
• The ghettos were surrounded by barbed wire or brick walls.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What was the "Final Solution?"

• The plan to kill an entire race of people
• The plan to end the Holocaust.
• The plan to rescue the Jews.
• The plan to arrest Hitler.

What other group(s) of people did Hitler kill BESIDES Jews?

• Christian people

• Romani people (Gypsies)

• Jew

• Black people

• Handicapped people

Why was gas chosen as the preferred method to kill people?

• it was "cleaner" and more "efficient"

• it was cheaper

• it was a painless death

• the prisoners chose it

What rights did individuals lose in Germany under the Nazis?

• freedom to assemble, freedom of speech and freedom of the press

• freedom to assemble, the right to bear arms, the right to not incriminate oneself

• freedom of speech and freedom of the press

• the right to bear arms and freedom of speech

Who created/led the Gestapo?

• Adolf Hitler

• Heinrich Himler

• Dr. Josef Goebbels

• Muhhammed Ali