Holocaust Brainpop: Vocabulary Check

Select the correct definition for the word "genocide."

• when one group of people tries to overthrow another group

• when one group of people hates another group

• when one group of people tries to completely wipe out another group

• when one group of people

What is Anti-Semitism?

• Racism against Germans and Jews

• Racism against women

• Racism against Germans

• Racism against Jews

The Nazis used Jews as a scapegoat for Germany's problems. It's a lot easier to blame someone else for what's wrong instead of working to make it better. What is a SCAPEGOAT?

• Someone that happily takes the blame for others

• Someone that bears the blame for others

• Someone that works to fix a problem

• Someone who works with goats

What is a concentration camp?

• Large schools that the Nazis built as part of their Final Solution

• Large housing complexes where Jews lived during WWII

• Large prisons that the Nazis built as part of their Final Solution

• Large offices that the Nazis built as part of their Final Solution

What was the Holocaust?

• The systematic murder of about six million Germans during World War II.

• The systematic kidnapping of about six million Jews during World War II.

• The systematic murder of about six million Jews during World War II.

• The systematic kidnapping of about six million Germans during World War II