WWII & the Holocaust

From 1933 to 1938, the German government legally

• passed anti-Jewish laws.

• passed laws that upheld civil rights in Germany.

• followed the constitution.

• carried out regular assaults against the Jews.

The Nazi campaign to imprison inferior people included which of the following targets?

• All residents of Allied nations

• Jews only

• Jews and Aryans

• Jews, Disabled people, Poles, Slavs, and other ‘undesirable’ peoples

Which of the following best describes fascism?

• It supports democracy.

• A persons country is the most important part of life.

• It promotes communist ideas.

• It condemns warfare.

What was the Holocaust?

• A famous battle in World War II

• A time when all the people in Germany were made to work hard for little food

• Large numbers of Jews and others were imprisoned and killed by Nazis

• The invasion of China by Japan

When an entire people group are targeted for extermination, then __ is being committed against that people group.

• genocide

• patricide

• matricide

• regicide

Anti-semitism means:

• Against Nazis

• Against Jews

• Against Germany

• Against War

What did the German government blame the Jews for?

• Starting World War II

• Not fighting in World War I

• Starting World War I

• Germany losing the first war

Who/What is Kristallnacht?

• The name of the largest Polish ghetto

• Adolf Hitler’s second in command during the war

• The name of a well-known concentration camp killing center

• A night where Germans destroyed Jewish churches and businesses

What was Auschwitz?

• A symbol on the German flag that Hitler created.

• A well-known concentration camp where Jews were killed

• The first country that Hitler conquered in WWII

• The night where Jewish businesses and churches were destroyed.

Germans sectioned off parts of a city with barbed wire or stone walls in order to store Jews there. These sectioned off places were called:

• Concentration Camps

• Asylums

• Ghettos

• Prisons

• Death Camps