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Stages of Genocide

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Acts of violence directed at any specific group with intention to eliminate that group are known as what?
a)
Conflict
b)
Crisis
c)
Genocide
d)
Power Struggle
2.
What is a conflict?
a)
Major disagreement/struggles between at least two sides
b)
When a majority group eliminates a specific minority group.
c)
The mass killing of one type of people.
d)
The mass removal of one specific group. 
3.
Which of the following is NOT one of the eight stages of genocide?
a)
Dehumanization
b)
Popularization
c)
Classification
d)
Extermination
4.

Which of the following stage(s) of genocide describes this Holocaust event: Reinhardt Heydrich called a top secret meeting of Nazi officials to come up with a "Final Solution" to the Jewish "problem".

a)

Denial

b)

Organization

c)

Polarization

d)

Preparation

5.

Which of the following stage(s) of genocide describes this Holocaust event:

Jews and other "undesirables" were loaded into vans and told they were being relocated. As they were transported, gas from the exhaust was re-routed back into the van, killing all passengers.

a)

Classification

b)

Symbolism

c)

Preparation

d)

Extermination

6.

Which of the following stage(s) of genocide describes this Holocaust event:

Jews are forced to wear patches of the yellow Star of David on their clothing, identifying them publicly as Jews.

a)

Classification

b)

Symbolism

c)

Preparation

d)

Denial

7.

Which of the following stage(s) of genocide describes this Holocaust event:

The Nuremberg Laws are passed in 1935, making it legal for Aryans to have special privileges over Jews and preventing the two races from intermixing in any way.

a)

Classification

b)

Symbolism

c)

Dehumanization

d)

Denial

8.

1st stage: deals with separating people into "us" and "them"

a)

Classification

b)

Organization

c)

Extermination

d)

Polarization

9.
T/F...All Genocides COULD have been prevented
a)
True
b)
False
10.

3rd stage: the dominate group denies the humanity of the other group through hate speech and propaganda campaigns that associate the targeted group with vermin, insects and/or diseases

a)

Organization

b)

Dehumanization

c)

Polarization

d)

Extermination

11.

There are considered to be ______ stages of genocide.

a)

5

b)

3

c)

6

d)

8

12.
If chosen for death, some of the victims would be sent to the ______ often disguised as showers, or they would be shot.
a)
gas chambers
b)
fire pits
c)
crematorium
d)
transit camps
13.
Which leader is responsible for the killing of six million Jews during the Holocaust?
a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Vladimir Lenin
c)
Adolph Hitler
d)
Otto von Bismarck
14.
The Holocaust occurred during which war?
a)
World War I
b)
Civil War
c)
World War II
d)
Cold War
15.
Certain sections of cities were set aside to imprison Jews, these sections were called
a)
apartments
b)
projects
c)
ghettos
d)
government housing
16.
How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?
a)
1 million
b)
6 million
c)
100'000
d)
60 million
17.
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
18.
What race did the Nazi's proclaim as the "master race"?
a)
Americans
b)
Japanese
c)
Aryan
d)
Japanese
19.
Which of the following best describes the “final solution?” 
a)
The implementation of the Balfour Declaration.
b)
The Nazi desire for complete destruction of the Jews.
c)
The conscription of German males into the military.
d)
The Jewish desire for a homeland within Germany.
20.

Why was this night known as "the night of the broken glass"

a)

Someone broke a glass cup and forgot to clean it up

b)

The nazi's were playing baseball and broke a window

c)

The nazi's broke through synagogues, schools, and other jewish buildings, and broken glass was all over the streets

d)

The jews threw glass at SS officers as a protest

21.

When did Kristallacht happen ?

a)

before the Holocaust

b)

after the Holocaust

22.
What is propaganda?
a)
Advertisements
b)
True information
c)
False information
d)
Posters
23.
Auschwitz is _
a)
a German military base.
b)
concentration/death camp.
c)
A synagogue 
d)
Jewish Church
24.
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
25.
In 1935, the ____ denied Jews German citizenship, segregated Jews from society and also established degrees of “Jewish-ness” based on family ancestry.
a)
The Enabling Act
b)
The Nuremberg Laws
c)
The Reich Fire Decree
d)
The Wannsee Conference Laws
26.
There were six of these built, all in Poland, for the sole purpose of killing as many people as possible: ____ .
a)
labor camps
b)
ghettos
c)
gas chambers
d)
death camps
27.
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
28.
The ___ was a mobile, killing squad that was part of the SS but followed the Wehrmacht, as they moved through Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
a)
Luftwaffe
b)
Mischling
c)
Einsatzgruppen
d)
Swastika
29.
Josef Menegle did majority of his experiments in which concentration camp?
a)
Chelmno
b)
Auschwitz
c)
Treblinka
d)
Sobibor
30.

Genocide can be described as:

a)

the negotiations and discussions carried out in handling affairs without arousing hostility

b)

Widespread murder and other acts committed by governments or other groups with the intent to destroy— in whole or in part—a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.

c)

The act or process of approving and sanctioning formally

d)

the interaction of countries and how they cooperate to resolve issues among themselves

31.

What is mass murder?

a)

The killing of a big group of people that occurs through shooting, gassing, and confinement in labor and camps.

b)

A good thing

c)

War

32.

What is Propaganda?

a)

Techniques that do NOT persuade

b)

Techniques used to influence opinions, emotions, behaviors.

c)

Techniques used ONLY in an unfair way

33.

Nazi propaganda created fear and loathing by portraying “enemies” of Germany as:

a)

dangerous [a]

b)

intelligent [b]

c)

sub-human [c]

d)

both a and c

34.

For an action to qualify as genocide it must be intentional (not an accident) and systematic (planned)

a)

True

b)

False