PRACTICE: Holocaust (Modern World History)

How many people were murdered in the Holocaust?

• 1 million
• 6 million
• 50 million

Hitler and the Nazis targetted other "undesirable" groups -- which choice is NOT one of those groups?

• homosexuals
• "gypsies" and Eastern Europeans
• the disabled
• the illiterate (can't read)

What BEST describes antisemitism?

• a very old hatred, existing since ancient times, that often blames the Jews for negative events throughout history
• a very modern concept stemming from factual evidence that Jewish people are evil
• a concept that the Nazis invented to scapegoat Jewish people for Germany's problems

What element did the Nazis add to antisemitism, in order to prepare for the Final Solution?

• the false idea that Jewish-ness is a race and that Jewish-ness is in someone's blood
• the false idea that Jewish people are in "league with the devil"
• the false idea that all Jewish people are greedy capitalists

The use of extensive propaganda against Jewish people by the Nazi Party in the 1930s best matches WHICH stage of genocide?

• extermination
• dehumanization
• denial

What did the 1935 Nuremberg Laws do?

• authorize the mass extermination of Jewish people
• force Jewish Germans into segregated neighborhoods, called ghettos
• strip Jewish-Germans of their citizenship rights + placed many other restrictions on their daily life

Forcing Jewish people to wear patches or armbands with the Star of David on them best matches WHICH stage of genocide?

• extermination
• classification
• symbolisation

What was the goal of ghettoization?

• contain Jewish people in one place and engineer those surroundings to weaken and then destroy them
• separate Jewish and non-Jewish people so both could thrive apart from one another, in peace
• systematically murder Jewish people as fast as possible

Without __________________ and ______________________ resistance, people living in the ghettos would not have had the strength for _________________________ resistance.

• cultural; spiritual ----- physical
• physical; violent ----- armed
• medical; financial ------ political

What was the "Final Solution" ?

• the plan to force Jewish people all throughout Europe to convert to Christianity
• the plan to relocate Jewish people to Israel
• the plan to systematically "cleanse" Europe of its Jewish population through murder