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Holocaust Vocab

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Hitler's personal bodyguard and military branch of the Nazi party.  
a)
The SA
b)
Wehrmacht
c)
The SS
d)
The Luftwaffe 
2.
The Nazi term for their perfect race, what we often call their "master race." 
a)
Aryans
b)
Ubermensch 
c)
der perfect
d)
Nazi youth 
3.
The Nazi secret police who would seek out hiding Jews (like Anne Frank). 
a)
The SA
b)
The Stazi
c)
The Gestapo
d)
Einsatzgruppen 
4.
The term the Nazis used to describe their ultimate answer to "The Jewish Question." 
a)
The Final Solution 
b)
Das Ende
c)
Barbarossa 
d)
Liquidation 
5.
A separate area of a city, often an already ethnic neighborhood, which the Germans would block off for the purpose of separating Jews from the rest of the city and impose harsh conditions.  
a)
Hood
b)
Slum
c)
Ghetto
d)
Concentration Camp
6.
Prejudice or hatred against Jews.
a)
Nazis
b)
Anti-Semitism
c)
Genocide
d)
Pogroms
7.
A wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, where broken glass from the
windows of synagogues, homes, and
Jewish-owned businesses were plundered
and destroyed.
a)
Ghettos
b)
Deportation
c)
Pogroms
d)
Kristallnacht
8.
The official policy of
the extermination of
all European Jews.
a)
Deportation
b)
Final Solution
c)
Cremation
d)
Auschwitz
9.

Anti-Semitism

a)

extreme prejudice against the Jewish

b)

a movement disregarding semantics

c)

Nazi Police Force

d)

a follower of political rebellion

10.

Who are Aryans

a)

People from the country of Arya

b)

Jewish Refugees

c)

Hitler's soldiers

d)

Caucasian Gentiles (People of pure racial background)

11.

Fascists

a)

follower of a political belief that values the nation and supports a dictator

b)

Nazi Secret Police

c)

Those working to help protect the Jews

d)

a synonym for partisans

12.

Third Reich

a)

the new Star Wars series premiering in 2021

b)

The march of the Jews from a concentration camp in Poland

c)

The third empire, ruled by Adolf Hitler

d)

The third law of natural rights to Germany

13.

Hitler's ultimate plan to kill all of the Jewish people in Europe during World War II was called....

a)

Final Solution

b)

Genocide

c)

Swatstika

d)

Ghetto

14.
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.
15.

The Nuremberg Laws

a)

separated Jews from German society

b)

said Jews couldn't marry non-Jews

c)

said Jews couldn't own businesses

d)

all of the above

16.

"The Night of the Broken Glass", The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938.

a)

Einsatzgruppen

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Kristallnacht

d)

Reich-Stag

17.
Gestapo
a)
A bad neighborhood
b)
the German state secret police during the Nazi regime
c)
established in the poor sections of a city, where most of the Jews from the city and surrounding areas were subsequently forced to reside.
d)
A concentration camp located in Germany
18.

Choose the word which means: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

a)

Ration

b)

Semitism

c)

Anti-Semitism

d)

Nuremberg Laws

19.

In Germany, the Nazis promoted this false notion that glorified the German people as this ________ race, while denigraing Jews, black people, Roma and gypsies.

a)

Inferior

b)

Illegal

c)

Aryan

d)

Immigrant

20.
What is anti-semitism?
a)
Being prejudice against Jews
b)
Killing a large group of people
c)
The Nazi military
d)
A place where people are imprisoned
21.
Who were the German state secret police?
a)
Nazis
b)
Germans
c)
The Gestapo
d)
Hitler's Army
22.

An organization with the purpose of training young boys to become future Nazi soldiers

a)

Aryan race

b)

Einsatzgruppen

c)

Hitler Youth

d)

Ghettos

23.

These laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or German-related blood."

a)

Jewish Race Laws

b)

The Berlin Laws

c)

The Holocaust Laws

d)

The Nuremberg Laws

24.

"The Night of the Broken Glass", The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938.

a)

Einsatzgruppen

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Kristallnacht

d)

Reich-Stag

25.

An organization with the purpose of training young boys to become future Nazi soldiers

a)

Aryan race

b)

Einsatzgruppen

c)

Hitler Youth

d)

Ghettos

26.

The Nuremberg Laws

a)

separated Jews from German society

b)

said Jews couldn't marry non-Jews

c)

said Jews couldn't own businesses

d)

all of the above

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.

Trials used to convict criminals who were in charge of the Holocaust.

a)

Nuremberg Trials

b)

Scopes Trials

c)

Nuremberg Laws

d)

November Decree

29.

Improving racial quality of a population through only allowing certain people to have children

a)

Selective breeding

b)

Kinderreich

c)

Eugenics

d)

Aryan

30.

What groups were primarily targeted for euthanasia as ordered in Aktion T4?

a)
Roma  & Sinti
b)
Jehovah's Witnesses
c)
Mentally & Physically Handicapped
d)
Afro-Europeans
31.

The Aktion T4 program used what type of "Mercy Killing" treatment on the physically and mentally handicapped persons who were considered "useless" in the new German Reich.

a)
Einsatzgruppen
b)
Euthanasia
c)
Forced sterilization
d)
Eugenics
32.
Hitler claimed that the German people needed more "Living Space".  He used this to justify expansion of Germany.  What was this called?
a)
Wehrmacht
b)
T-4 Program
c)
Lebensraum
d)
Propaganda
33.

Hitler wanted to take the Sudatenland, which is in which country

a)

Austria

b)

England

c)

Czechoslovakia

d)

Egypt

34.

What is the Reichstag

a)

The German Parliament (like a congress)

b)

The leader of the Wiemar government

c)

The prime minister

d)

The Wiemar constitution

35.

What does Anschluss refer to?

a)

A new Nazi Weapon

b)

The unification of Germany and Austria

c)

The 1918 peace treaty that led to WWII

d)

A secret Nazi base