WWII & Holocaust Quizs

Word that describes a limit on how many immigrants could come in. Hint: it starts with a "q."

• Quota

• Limit

• Cap

• Restriction

At a conference in this French town, where bottled water also comes from, countries discussed the crisis facing Jewish people in Germany, but ultimately, most countries were unwilling to significantly alter their immigration policies. 

• Evian

• Nice

• Lyon

• Marseille

This 1919 treaty unintentionally paved the way for a future fight, showing that its harsh terms were not very bright. The is because the treaty created economic hardship and resentment in Germany, leading to the rise of extremist movements and the eventual outbreak of World War II.

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Trianon

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

This African country was invaded by Italy in 1935. Italian forces treated the locals horribly.

• Ethiopia 

• Kenya

• Sudan

• Somalia

A set of 1935 anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany that stripped the Jewish people of their citizenship, and barred them from marrying non-Jews. 

• Nuremberg Laws

• Enabling Act

• Kristallnacht

• Final Solution

These trials were held to prosecute Nazi leaders for their roles in the Holocaust, resulting in convictions and establishing principles of international law.

• Nuremberg Trials

• Tokyo Trials

• Geneva Conventions

• Hague Trials

Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II. He sent his opponents to the gulags.

• Trotsky

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Khrushchev

Germany invading this country on September 1, 1939 is considered the start of World War II.

• Poland

• France

• Czechoslovakia

• Belgium

During this event in November 1938, Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany were destroyed.

• Kristallnacht (Crystal Night"), or Night of the Broken Glass

• Pogrom Night

• The Night of Long Knives

• The Reichstag Fire

Region in France where the D-Day landings took place on June 6, 1944.

• Normandy

• Brittany

• Provence

• Alsace