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Holocaust Vocabulary Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During the late 1930's and into the early 1940's, the world experienced an indescribable and horrific event known as the ___________________ in which 11 million people were murdered.

a)

Gestapo

b)

Holocaust

c)

Nazi

d)

Concentration Camp

2.

During the Holocaust, six million ___________ people were murdered simply for they way they looked and for the beliefs they held.

a)

Jewish

b)

Anti-Semitic

c)

Nazi

d)

Gestapo

3.

This mass extermination of a specific group of people is also known as ________________.

a)

Holocaust

b)

concentration camp

c)

Anti-semitism

d)

genocide

4.

The Nazis took control of newspapers, radio, and school curriculum and used these tools to spread misleading information, also known as ____________________ to gain support for their political beliefs.

a)

gestapo

b)

Holocaust

c)

propaganda

d)

anti-Semitism

5.

The Nazis used their propaganda to spread ________________________ messages that dehumanized Jews and blamed them for the country’s financial ruin after World War I.

a)

anti-Semitic

b)

propaganda

c)

Nazi

d)

Jewish

6.

The ___________ Party, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler gained popular support and was able to carry out an organized plan to kill millions of European Jews and other “undesirables.”

a)

Jewish

b)

genocide

c)

Propaganda

d)

Nazi

7.

The Nazis used a secret police force known as the _________________ to collect information and to arrest Jews.

a)

ghetto

b)

gestapo

c)

propaganda

d)

Nazi

8.

Jewish people were often forced to move into separated areas of cities in cramped and horrible conditions known as ________________.

a)

concentration camps

b)

gestapo

c)

genocide

d)

ghettos

9.

From these restricted areas, Jews were then “relocated,” or more accurately, ________________, to other locations in Eastern Europe.

a)

concentration camps

b)

ghettos

c)

deported

d)

propaganda

10.

From these restricted areas, Jews were often moved to ____________________________ where they were forced to work under terrible and difficult conditions for their Nazi captors.

a)

ghettos

b)

deported

c)

genocide

d)

concentration camps

11.

the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

a)

genocide

b)

ghetto

c)

Holocaust

d)

deportation

12.

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

a)

genocide

b)

ghetto

c)

Holocaust

d)

deportation

13.

a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party

a)

ghetto

b)

gestapo

c)

Jewish

d)

Nazi

14.

of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion

a)

Nazi

b)

Jewish

c)

gestapo

d)

deportation

15.

hostility to or prejudice against Jews

a)

Nazi

b)

anti-Semitism

c)

deportation

d)

gestapo

16.

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately

a)

deportation

b)

ghetto

c)

concentration camp

d)

genocide

17.

separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live, especially Jews during the Holocaust

a)

deportation

b)

ghetto

c)

propaganda

d)

concentration camp

18.

An official order telling someone to leave a country; expulsion

a)

Holocaust

b)

deportation

c)

genocide

d)

propaganda

19.

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

a)

deportation

b)

propaganda

c)

genocide

d)

anti-semitism

20.

German secret police

a)

ghetto

b)

genocide

c)

gestapo

d)

deportation