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Holocaust

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Genocide?

a)

A place the Jews worshipped

b)

The mass murder of a certain group of people.

c)

The hatred of Jewish people

d)

Complete destruction or obliteration.

2.

When did the term "genocide" begin to be used?

a)

1944

b)

1870

c)

1916

d)

1947

3.

What is the holocaust?

a)

A bar

b)

A type of gas chamber

c)

The systematic murder of jews

d)

The name given to areas where the jews were killed

4.

Germany paid large sums of money after ww2 to repay the jews for the damages they caused

a)

True

b)

False

5.

When/Where did antisemitism start?

a)

 Middle Ages in Europe

b)

1945 in Germany

c)

1916 in Germany

6.

When did the holocaust happen?

a)

1933-1945

b)

18th century

c)

1914-1919

d)

1932-1944

7.

How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?

a)

4 million

b)

6 million

c)

1 million

d)

850 thousand

8.

What was the Kristallnacht program known as?

a)

Nazi Antisemitism

b)

Jewish stores

c)

Night of Broken Glass

9.

 Who created the term “Anti-semitism”?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Wilhelm Marr

c)

Raphael Lemkin

10.

With the Nazi’s rise to power in 1933, what were the orders of the party?

a)

Anti-Jewish economic boycotts

b)

staged book-burnings

c)

enacted discriminatory anti-Jewish legislation

d)

All of the above

11.

Did genocide include deliberately inflicting on a national, ethical, racial or religious group, conditions of life calculated to bring its physical destruction.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

On which date did the ‘Kristallnacht pogrom’ or Night Of Broken Glass occur?

a)

November 9th, 1938

b)

November 15th, 1938

c)

November 4th, 1938

d)

November 8th, 1938

13.

What is at the peak of the Pyramid of Hate?

a)

Biased attitudes

b)

Genocide

c)

Systematic Discrimination

d)

Acts of Bias

14.

Who kept on trying until the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948?

a)

Karl Renner

b)

Raphael Lemkin

c)

Vincent Auriol

d)

Antonin Zapotosky

15.

What word means the “hatred of Jewish people”?

a)

Anti-Semitism

b)

Holocaust

c)

Racism

d)

Anti- Semitism

16.

What word means the “hatred of Jewish people”?

a)

Anti-Semitism

b)

Holocaust

c)

Racism

d)

Anti- Semitism

17.

When did the event Kristallnacht pogrom/Night of Broken Glass happen?

a)

June 9,  1938

b)

November 9, 1938

c)

June 9, 1948

d)

November 9, 1948

18.

What was the “Final Solution”?

a)

To execute all the Jewish people in Europe

b)

To defeat the Russians

c)

To invade Britain

d)

To join the Jews

19.

Which of the following was NOT one of the following Nazi extermination methods?

a)

Mass Shootings

b)

Electric Chairs

c)

Mass Shootings

d)

Mobile Gas Chambers

20.

Which law racially defined Jews by blood and ordered the total separation of so-called "Aryans" and "non-Aryans,” thereby legalizing a racist hierarchy.

a)

The Nuremberg law

b)

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

c)

Anti-Jewish laws

21.

Who came up with the name “Genocide” in 1944?

a)

Raphael Lemkin

b)

Rafael Lemkin

c)

Richard Lemkin

d)

Richard Lempkin

22.

The Nazi party gave political expression to what?

a)

Anti - Jewish laws

b)

Racism

c)

Religion

d)

Anti - Jewish legislation

23.

Jews were less than 1 percent of the population in Germany in 1933. How and why was Anti-Semitism so important to the Nazi platform and its eventual success?

a)

They got Jews to do all the work

b)

They blamed all of the issues on the Jewish people.

c)

Their leaders were Jewish.

24.

Genocide is a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

a)

True

b)

Tuer

c)

Fasle

d)

Fsale

25.

Genocide means acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, ___, ___, ___or ___group. 

a)

a national, ethnical, racial, religious

b)

a gender, a nation, racial, religious

c)

a national, ethnical, a certain aged, racial

d)

a gender, religious, disabled, ethnical

26.

A potent component of antisemitism was___, of its followers thought that Jews were___.

a)

Totalitarianism...superior race

b)

Racism...loyal citizens

c)

Nationalism...disloyal citizens

27.

In the Middle Ages and early modern era, much of Europe’s government implemented anti-Jewish legislation by…

i) providing special cares for their children

ii) relegating them to particular job

iii) separating them from the rest of the population

iv) allowing them to own land

a)

i & ii

b)

ii & iii

c)

ii & iii & iv

d)

iii only

28.

With the Nazi’s rise to power in 1933, what were the orders of the party?

a)

Anti-Jewish economic boycotts

b)

Staged book-burnings

c)

Enacted discriminatory anti-Jewish legislation

d)

All of the above