WorksheetsHolocaust Vocabulary Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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.
Gestapo
Holocaust
Nazi
Concentration Camp
During the Holocaust, six million ___________ people were murdered simply for they way they looked and for the beliefs they held.
Jewish
Anti-Semitic
Nazi
Gestapo
This mass extermination of a specific group of people is also known as ________________.
Holocaust
concentration camp
Anti-semitism
genocide
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.
gestapo
Holocaust
propaganda
anti-Semitism
The Nazis used their propaganda to spread ________________________ messages that dehumanized Jews and blamed them for the country’s financial ruin after World War I.
anti-Semitic
propaganda
Nazi
Jewish
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.”
Jewish
genocide
Propaganda
Nazi
The Nazis used a secret police force known as the _________________ to collect information and to arrest Jews.
ghetto
gestapo
propaganda
Nazi
Jewish people were often forced to move into separated areas of cities in cramped and horrible conditions known as ________________.
concentration camps
gestapo
genocide
ghettos
From these restricted areas, Jews were then “relocated,” or more accurately, ________________, to other locations in Eastern Europe.
concentration camps
ghettos
deported
propaganda
From these restricted areas, Jews were often moved to ____________________________ where they were forced to work under terrible and difficult conditions for their Nazi captors.
ghettos
deported
genocide
concentration camps
the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
genocide
ghetto
Holocaust
deportation
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
genocide
ghetto
Holocaust
deportation
a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party
ghetto
gestapo
Jewish
Nazi
of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion
Nazi
Jewish
gestapo
deportation
hostility to or prejudice against Jews
Nazi
anti-Semitism
deportation
gestapo
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
deportation
ghetto
concentration camp
genocide
separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live, especially Jews during the Holocaust
deportation
ghetto
propaganda
concentration camp
An official order telling someone to leave a country; expulsion
Holocaust
deportation
genocide
propaganda
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
deportation
propaganda
genocide
anti-semitism
German secret police
ghetto
genocide
gestapo
deportation
