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Module 14, Lesson 3 (The Holocaust)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This term refers to the Germanic peoples and claims they were the "master race"...

a)

Northerners

b)

Anglo-Saxons

c)

Aryans

d)

Afro-Iberians

2.

What was the Holocaust?

a)

Ethnic killings in Rwanda between the Hutus and the Tutsis

b)

The systematic killing of Jews by Nazi Germany

c)

The destruction of Islamic holy sites in the Middle East

d)

The genocide in Kosovo

3.

What was the event called where gangs of Nazis broke into Jewish synagogues, businesses, and homes and caused a lot of destruction and terror?

a)

Krystallnacht

b)

Nuremberg Trials

c)

Final Solution

d)

Auschwitz

4.

What were ghettos?

a)

large area in city with tents for Jews to live in

b)

Jewish gang territory for resistors

c)

segregated areas in a city surrounded by walls or fences

d)

small area in the country where Jews stayed hidden from the Nazis

5.

What was the "final solution" to the "Jewish problem"?

a)

Use of ghettos to confine and control the Jewish population.

b)

Use of death by shooting to eliminate the Jewish population.

c)

Work camps to keep the Jews busy and not have them be economic competition in German towns.

d)

Industrial death camps, where gas was to be the primary means of execution.

6.

The systematic murder of an entire people...

a)

defenestration

b)

homicide

c)

genocide

d)

regicide

7.

How many Jews died as a result of Nazi massacres and extermination camps?

a)

10,000

b)

60,000,000

c)

2,500,000

d)

6,000,000

8.

What was Hitler's first plan to rid Germany of its Jewish Population?

a)

He isolated Jews in ghettos.

b)

He wanted Jews to emigrate to other countries.

c)

He wanted to destroy Jewish shops and businesses.

d)

He wanted to exterminate Jews in death camps.

9.

The Nazis built __________________ in camps such as Auschwitz so they could institute the Final Solution.

a)

Factories

b)

Hospitals

c)

Jail Cells

d)

Gas Chambers

10.

The German term Kristallnacht refers to...

a)

Fine champagne

b)

Famous R&B artist

c)

Starry night

d)

Night of broken glass

11.

After 1941 all Jews living in Germany had to wear...

a)

A yellow Star of David

b)

sagging pants

c)

immigrant badges

d)

a swastika

12.

In Nazi racial policy, a northern European and Scandinavian ethnic group, comprised mostly of tall people with fair skin, blonde hair and blue eyes.

a)

Autobahn

b)

Deutscheblutiger

c)

Gleichschaltung

d)

Aryans

13.

What does anti-Semitism mean?

a)

Racism against Germans.

b)

Racism against Jews.

c)

Racism against British.

d)

Hatred of large trucks.

14.

How did most prisoners die in concentration camps?

a)

Old age or loneliness.

b)

Gas, malnutrition or disease.

c)

Nobody died in a concentration camp.

d)

Industrial accidents

15.

What is a concentration camp?

a)

Concentration camps were holiday camps in Germany.

b)

Concentration camps were places to put people that the Nazis wanted to remove from society.

c)

Concentration camps were places Jewish people stayed and they were free to leave.

d)

Concentration camps were places of deep thought and concentration on AVID strategies.

16.

What is this?

a)

Star of David.

b)

Israel's flag.

c)

good luck charm .

d)

Fast food logo.

17.

What time period did the Holocaust happen?

a)

1977-2015

b)

World War 2

c)

World War 1

d)

Civil War

18.

In what country were the most Jews killed?

a)

Soviet Union

b)

Germany

c)

Poland

d)

Netherlands

19.

What did Hitler blame the Jews for?

a)

Being rich and having big noses

b)

Germany's loss of WWI and a failing economy

c)

Germany's loss of land and weakness

d)

Worshiping a God that he did not believe in

20.

Which action illustrates the concept of genocide?

a)

the British negotiating peace with Adolf Hitler during the 1938 Munich Conference

b)

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin signing a nonaggression pact in 1939

c)

the Nazi armies eliminating Jews and other groups as part of Hitler’s Final Solution.

d)

German generals plotting against Adolf Hitler