US7 : The Holocaust

Who were rounded up and placed in concentration camps during the Holocaust?

• Jews

• Europeans

• Africans

• Asians

Approximately how many Jews, political prisoners, and disabled individuals were killed during the Holocaust?

• 2 million

• 6 million

• 10 million

• 15 million

Which forces liberated concentration camps from the Nazi forces?

• Russian, German, and Italian forces

• Japanese, Chinese, and Indian forces

• American, British, and French forces

• American, British, and Soviet forces

What did the liberators confront in the Nazi camps?

• Piles of gold

• Piles of food

• Piles of corpses

• Piles of weapons

When was the full scope of Nazi horrors exposed to the world?

• Never exposed

• Before the war

• After the war

• During the war

A self-respecting nation cannot, on a scale accepted up to now, leave its higher activities in the hands of people of racially foreign origin . . . Allowing the presence of too high a percentage of people of foreign origin in relation to their percentage in the general population could be interpreted as an acceptance of the superiority of other races, something decidedly to be rejected.

—Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung [The German General News], April 27, 1933

The point of view expressed in the article was a contributing factor to —

• the widespread persecution of Jews in the Holocaust

• the political alliance formed between Germany and Italy

• the beginning of hostilities between Germany and Poland

• the demand that Czechoslovakia surrender the Sudetenland