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History of the Holocaust Exam Review

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of antisemitism?

a)

Racial

b)

Political

c)

Religious

d)

Historical

2.

Which group was NOT targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust?

a)

Jews

b)

Communists

c)

Women

d)

Roma/Sinti

e)

Homosexuals

3.

What puts the levels of the pyramid of hate in order as it escalates (or gets worse)?

a)

biased attitudes, acts of bias, discrimination, bias-motivated violence

b)

discrimination, biased attitudes, acts of bias, bias-motivated violence

c)

acts of bias, bias-motivated violence, biased attitudes, discrimination

d)

bias-motivated violence, discrimination, acts of bias, biased attitudes

4.

Which of the following is NOT one of the Nazi military groups?

a)

Gestapo

b)

SA (Sturmabteilung)

c)

SS (Schutzstaffel)

d)

Einsatzgruppen

e)

Blitzkrieg

5.

Where were Jews housed in cities prior to being sent to camps?

a)

ghettos

b)

labor camps

c)

death camps

d)

trains

6.

Which of the following is NOT one of the death camps?

a)

Auschwitz

b)

Sobibor

c)

Ravensbruck

d)

Majdanek

7.

How many death camps were there?

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

8.

Where were the death camps located?

a)

Germany

b)

Poland

c)

Austria

d)

Russia

9.

What were the name of the trials where Nazi military officers and business owners were tried for their war crimes?

a)

Nuremberg

b)

Versailles

c)

Berlin

d)

Anschluss

10.

What is the name of the event where Germany took over Austria?

a)

Anschluss

b)

Sudetenland

c)

The Austrian Takeover

d)

Munich Pact

11.

What is the name of the event where Germany took over part of Czechoslovakia?

a)

Anschluss

b)

Sudetenland

c)

Munich Pact

d)

Operation Barbarossa

12.

At which event did European powers appease Hitler and allow him to keep land that he'd already claimed as long as he didn't take more?

a)

Sudetenland

b)

Munich Agreement

c)

Nuremberg Trials

d)

Treaty of Versailles

13.

Which of the following laws did the the German government pass that said Hitler could make laws without the oversight of the German Parliament?

a)

Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933

b)

Enabling Act of 1933

c)

Weimar Republic

d)

Nuremberg Race Laws

14.

Which of the following laws did the the German government pass that suspended civil liberties and let the Nazis arrest communists?

a)

Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933

b)

Enabling Act of 1933

c)

Weimar Republic

d)

Nuremberg Race Laws

15.

What was the name of the German government after WWI?

a)

Reichstag

b)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

c)

Weimar Republic

d)

Third Reich

16.

What is the name of the genocide that the Ottoman Turks committed against the Armenians during WWI?

a)

Armenian Genocide

b)

Turkish Civil War

c)

WWI

d)

Pogrom of Turks

17.

Which of the following was NOT a theme used in propaganda to spread stereotypes about Jews?

a)

Greedy

b)

Predators

c)

Demonic

d)

Wise

18.

What is the name of the book published in the early 1900s that claimed the Jews were planning to take over the world?

a)

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

b)

The Bible

c)

Nuremberg Race Laws

d)

Treaty of Versailles

19.

What was the name of the event that was the first organized Nazi act of violence against the German Jews?

a)

Kristallnacht

b)

Book Burning

c)

Aryanization

d)

Night of the Long Knives

20.

What is the name of the event where the Nazis purged members of their own party who did not support their mission?

a)

Kristallnacht

b)

Night of the Long Knives

c)

Aryanization

d)

Nazi Purges

21.

Which law defined who was (and was not) Jewish in the German empire?

a)

Nuremberg Race Laws

b)

Enabling Act of 1933

c)

Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933

d)

Kristallnacht

22.

How were Jews forced to display their identity as Jews in Nazi Germany?

a)

Carry ID cards with a red "J" stamped on them

b)

Wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing

c)

Adopt "Jewish middle names" like Israel or Sara if their first name wasn't recognizably Jewish

d)

All of these options are true

23.

What was the name of the first concentration camp to open?

a)

Dachau

b)

Auschwitz

c)

Sachsenhausen

d)

Treblinka

24.

Which group of people were first sent to concentration camps?

a)

Jews

b)

Political Prisoners

c)

Handicapped

d)

Foreign Enemy combatants from WWII

25.

Which group of people were first exterminated (in mass numbers) in Nazi Germany?

a)

Political Prisoners

b)

Handicapped

c)

Jews

d)

Jehovah's witnesses

26.

What does Nazi stand for?

a)

National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP)

b)

Spartacist Party (Communist)

c)

German Nationalist People's Party (DNVP)

d)

Social Democratic Party (SPD)

27.

What worldwide event helped make Hitler and the Nazi party more popular?

a)

WWI

b)

Great Depression

c)

WWII

d)

Cold War

28.

Which of the following are ways that the Nazis tried to remove Jewish influences from their society?

a)

book burning

b)

play only German composed music

c)

force Jews to sell their businesses to Aryans

d)

the Nazis used all of these techniques

e)

destroy Jewish synagogues

29.

All groups the Nazis persecuted can fall into two main categories. Select those two:

a)

Belief that some groups were racially inferior

b)

Belief that some groups did not represent Nazi ideals

c)

Belief that some groups wanted to be enslaved

d)

Belief that their religion condoned this persecution

30.

What is a bystander?

a)

Someone who acts out to stop discrimination or violence

b)

Someone who observes discrimination or violence happening but does not intervene

31.

Which of the following are NOT perpetrators?

a)

SS Officers

b)

Gestapo

c)

Local policemen who helped round up victims

d)

Jews and the Roma / Sinti

32.

How were most victims transported to concentration camps?

a)

trains

b)

cars

c)

planes

d)

wagons

33.
What was the formal name for the extermination of all Jews in Europe?
a)
Judgement Day
b)
Final Solution
c)
D-Day
d)
German Rule
34.

What number most closely represents the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust

a)

6,000,000

b)

6,000

c)

600,000,000

d)

1,000,000

35.

The book that explained Hitler's theories about race and the "Jewish problem," was:

a)

Mein Kampf

b)

Metamorphasis

c)

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

d)

Origin of Species

36.

Which leader is responsible for the killing of Nazi Germany and the killing of 11 million people during the Holocaust?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Otto von Bismarck

37.

Which statement about ghettos is NOT correct?

a)

Many families lived together in one small apartment.

b)

People were always hungry.

c)

The residents of the ghetto were free to come and go as they pleased.

d)

Living conditions were unsanitary.

38.

Which term means prejudice against or hatred of Jews?

a)

Semitism

b)

Anti-semitism

c)

ghetto

d)

Holocaust

39.
The Holocaust occurred during which war?
a)
World War I
b)
Civil War
c)
World War II
d)
Cold War
40.

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

a)

Americans

b)

Jewish

c)

Aryan

d)

Japanese

41.

When speaking about the "Holocaust," what time period are we referring to?

a)

1933-1945

b)

1925-1930

c)

1945-1950

d)

1970-1975

42.

What does the term genocide mean?

a)

discrimination against a specific group

b)

intolerance for a specific group

c)

acceptance of ideas different than your own

d)

deliberate killing of a particular ethnic group or nation

43.
The gas used in the gas chabers, originally designed as a pesticide.  
a)
Mace
b)
Zyklon B
c)
Deet 3
d)
Cyclone E
44.

a forced march of prisoners of war with the intent to kill or weaken along the way

a)

persecution

b)

deportation

c)

Final Solution

d)

death march

45.

the official secret police of Nazi Germany

a)

Gestapo

b)

SS

c)

Third Reich

d)

Allies

46.

hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of political or religious beliefs

a)

persecution

b)

propaganda

c)

Nuremberg Laws

d)

Anti-Semitism

47.

to set free, as from imprisonment

a)

liberation

b)

incarcerate

c)

persecution

d)

discriminate

48.

the black-uniformed elite corps of the Nazi Party

a)

Star of David

b)

Gestapo

c)

Secret Service

d)

SS (Schutzstaffel)

49.

"Night of Broken Glass"

a)

Final Solution

b)

Third Reich

c)

Kristallnacht

d)

SS

50.
Kristallnacht was a state sponsored attack on the Jews and their property; therefore, it can be described as a _______________________.
a)
Holocaust
b)
genocide
c)
untermenschen
d)
pogrom
51.

After people were executed in gas chambers, their bodies would then be sent to the _______ for burning and disposal.

a)

gas chambers

b)

crematorium

c)

death camps

d)

labor camps

52.

These were sometimes disguised as showers to try and keep prisoners calm as they walked to their death.

a)

gas chambers

b)

fire pits

c)

crematorium

d)

transit camps

53.
It was at the __________, which was attended by several high-ranking Nazi leaders, that the “the Final Solution to the Jewish Question” was planned.
a)
Potsdam Conference
b)
Berlin Conference
c)
Nuremberg Conference
d)
Wannsee Conference
54.
The name of the German airforce
a)
Wehrmacht
b)
the SS
c)
Luftwaffe
d)
Einsatzgruppen
55.

The ___ was a mobile, killing squad that was part of the SS but followed the Wehrmacht (German army), as they moved through Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

a)

Luftwaffe

b)

Mischling

c)

Einsatzgruppen

d)

Swastika

56.

Leader of the SS

a)

Himmler

b)

Hess

c)

Goering

d)

Goebbels

57.

Hitler's right hand man, helped Hitler write his book in jail

a)

Hess

b)

Goering

c)

Rohm

d)

Heydrich

58.

Organized the Wannsee Conference, Butcher of Prague, SS officer

a)

Goering

b)

Rohm

c)

Himmler

d)

Heydrich

59.

Founder of the Gestapo and Commander of the Luftwaffe

a)

Himmler

b)

Hess

c)

Goering

d)

Goebbels

60.

Propaganda Minister of the Nazi Party

a)

Goebbels

b)

Rohm

c)

Himmler

d)

Hitler

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