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Holocaust

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the time period where Adolf Hitler had 6 million Jews killed because he wanted a pure Aryan Race?
a)
Holocaust
b)
Reign of Terror
c)
Middle Passage
d)
Rwanda Genocide
2.

What word means prejudice and hatred of the Jews?

a)

Racism

b)

Anti-Semitism

3.

What happened September 11, 1938 when Adolf order the Jewish businesses and synagogues to be destroyed?

a)

Nuremberg Trials

b)

Non-Agression Pact

c)

Kristallnacht

d)

Stalingrad

4.
What was the plan that Adolf and his advisors came up with to get rid of the Jews or anyone who resisted?
a)
Final Solution
b)
Starve them
c)
Beat them
d)
Killed them
5.

How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?

a)

1 million

b)

6 million

c)

100'000

d)

60 million

6.

What does the term genocide mean?

a)

the killing of all the pets in a country

b)

The murder of all the children in a country

c)

The murder of a particular gender of people like all the males

d)

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

7.
Certain sections of cities were set aside to imprison Jews, these sections were called
a)
apartments
b)
projects
c)
ghettos
d)
government housing
8.
The Holocaust occurred during which war?
a)
World War I
b)
Civil War
c)
World War II
d)
Cold War
9.
What does persecution mean?
a)
Treating people well because of their political views
b)
Treating someone cruelly due to their race, religion, or political views
c)
Treating someone well because you really like them
d)
Treating people bad because you dislike the same people they dislike 
10.
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
11.

Hitler not only ordered 6 million Jews killed, but also the _________________, elderly, homosexuals and gypsies.

a)

Aryans

b)

the handicapped

c)

Christians

d)

the Dutch

12.

Which BEST explains why Israel became a nation-state in Palestine after 1948?

a)

After the Ottoman empire was dismantled after World War I a new Jewish nation-state was created.

b)

The United Nations decided that Jewish people needed a homeland after six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

c)

Palestine was divided into two nation-states to be occupied by the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II.

d)

Fears that Palestine was becoming a communist state led the United States into creating Israel as a democratic country in the Middle East.

13.

Jews continuing to practice their religion in the ghettos and concentration camps was an example of which kind of resistance?

a)

Armed Resistance

b)

Economic Resistance

c)

Spiritual Resistance

14.

Many Jews did not believe that the Nazis were really killing everyone in the concentration camps?

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Are spiritual resistance and armed resistances the same?

a)

Yes

b)

No