Holocaust Lesson

What race did the Nazi's proclaim as the "master race"?

• Americans

• Japanese

• Aryan

• Japanese

What is this?

• Star of David

• Symbol representing helpful people.

• Tattoo all Jewish people
  were given

• good luck charm

What was the short name for special Nazi officers?

• S.S.

• The soviets

• The Wehrmacht

• Nazis

What did Adolf Hitler use to blame the Jewish people for Germany's problems?

• concentration camps for all Jewish people

• Genetic proof that the Jewish people were inferior

• Propaganda

• New laws forbidding Jewish people from being citizens of Germany

Which of the following correctly identifies anti-semitism

• Racial bias or prejudice against Jews

• Hating a person due to their political view beliefs

• Strong nationalism and pride in one's own country

• being against one's own government

By the end of the Holocaust, over __________ Jews had been killed? 

• 2 Million

• 4 Million

• 6 Million

• 8 Million

How did the Nazi government plan to exterminate all the Jewish people?

• infect the population with a virus that would only affect Jewish people

• by looting (breaking into) their businesses and rationing their food

• by sending them to death (Concentration) camps where they would be killed

• by sending them to other countries to live and prosper

What does the text "The Holocaust" mostly describe or talk about? What is the central message?

• the cultural impact of the Jewish people throughout Europe

• Key events that led to World War II

• Hitler's rise to political power?

• the Nazi government's efforts to exterminate the Jewish people

Which BEST explains why Israel became a nation-state in Palestine after 1948?

• After the Ottoman empire was dismantled after World War I a new Jewish nation-state was created.

• The United Nations decided that Jewish people needed a homeland after six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

• Palestine was divided into two nation-states to be occupied by the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II.

• Fears that Palestine was becoming a communist state led the United States into creating Israel as a democratic country in the Middle East.

Hitler believed full blooded Germans were superior to all other nationalities. What does the word superior mean?

• humble, modest, not showing an overly high opinion of one's self

• Weak, low confidence or belief in one's abilities or rights

• Being greater than average, a higher rank or extraordinary.

• Feeling Supreme, inferior to all other tacos, just like a taco supreme