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Holocaust

Total questions: 121

Worksheet time: 1hrs 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

sick

b)

handicapped

c)

dwarfs

d)

Dutch

2.
What race did the Nazi's proclaim as the "master race"?
a)
Americans
b)
Japanese
c)
Aryan
d)
Japanese
3.
Which term means prejudice against or hatred of Jews?
a)
Semitism
b)
Anti-semitism
c)
ghetto 
d)
Holocaust
4.
What is this?
a)
Star of David
b)
Symbol representing helpful people.
c)
Tattoo all Jewish people
were given
d)
good luck charm
5.
What did Jewish people in Nazi controlled areas have to wear to identify them as Jews?
a)
a yellow star of David
b)
a sign that said Jew
c)
Black clothes
d)
A yellow cross
6.
Certain sections of cities were set aside to imprison Jews, these sections were called
a)
apartments
b)
projects
c)
ghettos
d)
government housing
7.

Where was the place the Jews were first moved to?

a)

Projects

b)

Concentrations Camps

c)

Ghettos

d)

Prisons

8.
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.
9.
By the end of the Holocaust, over __________ Jews had been killed? 
a)
2 Million
b)
4 Million
c)
6 Million
d)
8 Million
10.

The deliberate destruction, in whole of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group is called

a)

Holocaust

b)

Genocide

c)

Concentration Camp

d)

Nuremberg Laws

11.

"a person who is standing near but not taking part in what is happening"


This is a(n)...

a)

perpetrator.

b)

bystander.

c)

ally.

d)

target.

12.

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

13.

When did Kristallacht happen ?

a)

before the Holocaust

b)

after the Holocaust

14.

After the destruction of the synagogues, and other Jewish buildings, who was held responsible and had to pay for the damage ?

a)

The Nazi's

b)

The Jews

c)

The government

d)

The McDonald's CEO

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.

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.

17.
What was the effect of the Nuremberg laws on Jews living in Germany? 
a)
Jews were forced to marry non-Jews.
b)
Jews were ordered to adopt German sounding names.
c)
Jews were granted equal rights and freedom from persecution.
d)
Jews were stripped of their German citizenship and right to vote
18.
Blond haired, blue-eyed people typified the Nazi ideal of the “master race.”  What were these people called? 
a)
Slavic
b)
Roman
c)
Aryan
d)
Latino
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.
By the end of the Holocaust, over __________ Jews had been killed? 
a)
2 Million
b)
4 Million
c)
6 Million
d)
8 Million
21.
The infamous doctor at Auschwitz, the "Angel of Death"
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Artur Axmann
c)
Josef Berchtold
d)
Joseph Mengele
22.

Which term means prejudice against or hostility towards Jews?

a)

Semitism

b)

Anti-semitism

c)

Genocide

d)

Holocaust

23.
What was the name of the largest death camp located in Poland?
a)
Auschwitz
b)
Bergen-Belsen
c)
Belzec
d)
Treblinka
24.
The deliberate destruction, in whole of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group
a)
Holocaust
b)
Genocide
c)
Concentration Camp
d)
Nuremberg Laws
25.
About how many people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators?
a)
15 million
b)
13 million
c)
11 million
d)
9 million
26.

Jewish place of worship

a)

church

b)

synagogues

c)

mosque

d)

barracks

27.

The gas used in the gas chambers, originally designed as a pesticide.

a)

Mace

b)

Zyklon B

c)

Deet 3

d)

Cyclone E

28.

Nazi mobile killing units that preceded the more "efficient" gas chambers.

a)

Stormtroopers

b)

Tiergarten

c)

Einsatzgruppen

d)

The SA

29.
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)
Quarter
b)
Slum
c)
Ghetto
d)
Concentration Camp
30.
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
31.
A German word, Untermenschen, meaning “___ -___” used by the Nazis to refer to the groups they deemed undesirable.
a)
sub-human
b)
mixed-breed
32.

What is the Nazi's symbol?

a)

Swastika

b)

Star of David

c)

Golden Star

d)

Cross

33.
Who were the German state secret police?
a)
Nazis
b)
Germans
c)
The Gestapo
d)
Hitler's Army
34.

take human qualities away from other people

a)

dehumanize

b)

humanize

35.

What does the word “Holocaust” translate to?

a)

”Cost of the hollowed”

b)

“Jewish sacrifice”

c)

”Death by fire”

d)

“Death by Genocide”

36.

Who was responsible for the NAZI party during the Holocaust?

a)

Paul von Hindenburg

b)

Joseph Goebbels

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

The Cabinet

37.

Hatred of Jews

a)

Stereotype

b)

Racism

c)

Anti-Semitism

d)

Prejudice

38.

Jewish people were often forced to move into separated areas of cities in cramped and horrible conditions known as ________________.

a)

concentration camps

b)

gestapo

c)

genocide

d)

ghettos

39.

a place where large numbers of Jews were imprisoned and forced to work in horrible conditions or to await a mass execution

a)

ghettos

b)

deported

c)

genocide

d)

concentration camps

40.

the term the Nazis used to describe people who they believed were of pure German blood--a superior race of white people with blond hair and blue eyes

a)

Nazi

b)

Jew

c)

Aryan

41.

Where they burn dead bodies.

a)

synagogue

b)

ghetto

c)

crematorium

42.

What is the Jewish place of worship called?

a)

mosque

b)

synagogue

c)

church

43.

The night of broken glass

a)

kristallnacht

b)

circus

c)

Halloween

44.

fixed daily food allowance

a)

calories

b)

ration

c)

roast beef

45.

Hitler told Germans that jews were lower and less ____________than they were.

a)

German

b)

important

c)

European

d)

intelligent

46.

As Hitler rose to power, the German government began passing laws that took away Jewish people's ___________.

a)

power

b)

careers

c)

children

d)

rights

47.

Hitler forced every jew to wear a ___________(the symbol of Judaism) on their arm.

a)

white star

b)

yellow swastika

c)

yellow star of David

d)

north star

48.

Hitler went as far as to convince Germans that the world would be a better place______________

a)

without Jews

b)

without children

c)

with Jews

d)

with concentration camps

49.

Country by country Hitler ordered soldiers to round up Jews and send them to _____________________.

a)

prison

b)

concentration camps

c)

other countries

d)

shelters

50.

At the camps, some people were chosen to work, but many were _______________shortly after they arrived.

a)

escaped

b)

let go

c)

forced into slavery

d)

killed

51.

There was so much __________&_________that most workers in the camp dies.

a)

thieving & robbery

b)

starvation & disease

c)

cheating & disease

d)

heart attacks & disease

52.

When allied soldiers discovered the camps, most of the survivors looked like ____________

a)

sticks

b)

children

c)

walking skeletons

53.

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

a)

sick

b)

handicapped

c)

dwarfs

d)

Dutch

54.

Entire villages & _________-were wiped out. Most survivors spent the rest of their lives looking for lost family members.

a)

schools

b)

families

c)

businesses

55.

______________won the election of 1940 with the promise to stay out of the war.

a)

Wilkie

b)

Lincoln

c)

FDR

d)

Churchill

56.

FDR's four freedoms included freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, and freedom from __________

a)

needs

b)

fear

c)

protection

d)

liberty

57.

FDR proposed that the U.S. ___________military equipment to Great Britain.

a)

give

b)

borrow

c)

lease

d)

send

58.

The Axis powers saw the military aid to Great Britain as a clear sign that the U.S. ___________________.

a)

had chosen a side

b)

wanted to stay neutral

c)

hated war

59.

Reorder the following

a)

Germany loses World War I

b)

Hitler attempts to overthrow the government

c)

Hitler goes to prison

d)

Hitler writes "Mein Kampf"

e)

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
60.

Hitler was a member of the ​ (a)   Party. After he came to power, he wanted to be called ​ ​ (b)   , which means "leader" in ​ (c)   . Hitler immediately enacted laws that ​ (d)   Jewish people. He forced them to live in cramped, fenced-in areas called ​ (e)   , where many Jewish people died.

Choose from the below words
Nazi
Communist
Furher
King
German
Serbian
targeted
ghettos
village
61.

This is something like a monument or ceremony that honors a person who died or serves as a reminder of an event in which many people have died.

a)

cemetery

b)

memorial

c)

headstone

d)

library

62.

Jews were dehumanized in all of the following ways except:

a)

transported in cattle cars

b)

brainwashed with anti-semitic propaganda.

c)

had their heads shaved

d)

isolated in Ghettos

63.
Which term means prejudice against or hatred of Jews?
a)
Semitism
b)
Anti-semitism
c)
ghetto 
d)
Holocaust
64.
What did Jewish people in Nazi controlled areas have to wear to identify them as Jews?
a)

a yellow star of David

b)

a sign that said Jew

c)

Black clothes

d)

A yellow cross

65.

After the ghettos, where were Jews taken to do forced labor?

a)

Ghettos

b)

Wisconsin

c)

Concentration camps

66.

How many Jewish men, women, and children were killed during World War II?

a)

About 6 hundred

b)

over six million

c)

over sixty million

d)

less than six thousand

67.

Adolf Hitler was the leader of which country?

a)

Italy

b)

Russia

c)

Japan

d)

Germany

68.

During what war did the Holocaust take place?

a)

World War l

b)

World War ll

c)

The Revolutionary War

d)

The Napoleonic Wars

69.

The deliberate destruction, in whole of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group is called

a)

Holocaust

b)

Genocide

c)

Concentration Camp

d)

Nuremberg Laws

70.

At the camps, some people were chosen to work, but many were _______________shortly after they arrived.

a)

escaped

b)

let go

c)

forced into slavery

d)

killed

71.

In your own words, explain the conditions in Germany at the time that Hitler was able to rise to power. Give two reasons why you believe the German people backed Hitler and went along with the Holocaust.

4 lines
72.

In your own words, tell me about your experience learning about the Holocaust this week. Some ideas to write about include:

What did you find surprising?

What are you still curious to learn about?

Would you like to visit a Holocaust museum someday?

Would you ever visit a concentration camp?

(This should be more than one sentence.)

4 lines
73.
A building or group of buildings for soldiers or prisoners to live in
a)
barracks
b)
suitcase
c)
escape
d)
synagogues
74.
A tall smokestack which allows the gases to go into the atmosphere.
a)
house
b)
compressed
c)
chimney
d)
gas chambers
75.
To be made smaller.
a)
escape
b)
compressed
c)
ethnicities
d)
seeping
76.
Large prison used to hold people for political reasons.
a)
jail
b)
corpse
c)
confiscated
d)
concentration camp
77.
having something taken away
a)
hysterically
b)
surroundings
c)
confiscated
d)
vandalized
78.
a dead body
a)
corpse
b)
mummy
c)
humanity
d)
nightmare
79.
get away, break out
a)
extermination
b)
escape
c)
intact
d)
quiver
80.
belonging to a social group that has a common national, religious or cultural traditions.
a)
slaughtered
b)
ethnicities
c)
synagogues
d)
vandalized
81.
An airtight room that can be filled with poisonous gas as a means of execution.
a)
quiver
b)
synagogues
c)
extermination
d)
gas chamber
82.
genocide, to get rid of by destroying completely
a)
slaughtered
b)
extermination
c)
vandalized
d)
confiscated
83.
A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before & during WWII.
a)
holocaust
b)
propaganda
c)
slaughtered
d)
systematically
84.
Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group.
a)
compressed
b)
nightmare
c)
humanity
d)
genocide
85.
The human race, caring for other human beings. Many religions teach that it is expected that human beings will care for each other, and show kindness to others.
a)
compressed
b)
genocide
c)
humanity
d)
hysterically
86.
In an extremely emotional, out-of-control way of behaving
a)
vandalized
b)
hysterically
c)
ethnicities
d)
confiscated
87.
untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole
a)
intact
b)
corpse
c)
quiver
d)
nightmare
88.
a scary dream that wakes up the child or person
a)
hysterically
b)
quiver
c)
nightmare
d)
surroundings
89.
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause
a)
surroundings
b)
corpse
c)
propaganda
d)
escape
90.
to shake; to tremble from fear or cold
a)
quiver
b)
scared
c)
frightened
d)
humanity
91.
slowly dripping and flowing
a)
quiver
b)
seeping
c)
escape
d)
chimney
92.
killed cruelly and without kindesss
a)
slaughtered
b)
concentration camp
c)
gas chamber
d)
barracks
93.
a large case used to carry clothing and belongings when traveling
a)
slaughtered
b)
genocide
c)
barracks
d)
suitcase
94.
environment, everything around you
a)
surroundings
b)
synagogues
c)
gas chambers
d)
concentration camps
95.
Jewish worship houses
a)
church
b)
synagogues
c)
concentration camps
d)
barracks
96.
In an organized, orderly manner, carried on step by step procedures orderly
a)
escape
b)
hysterically
c)
systematically
d)
propaganda
97.
deliberately destroyed or damaged
a)
vandalized
b)
escape
c)
quiver
d)
surroundings
98.

How many people died in the Holocaust?

a)

ll,000,000

b)

6,000,000

c)

1,000

d)

None

99.

How many Jews died in the Holocaust?

a)

1,000,000

b)

4,000

c)

6,000,000

d)

800

100.

Who was the Nazi leader?

a)

Germany

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

United States

d)

There was not a leader

101.

Families were separated.

a)

True

b)

False

102.

Why did Jew have to wear stars?

a)

For idetification

b)

To be fashionable

c)

For fun

d)

Because it was like a credit card

103.

In what years did the holocaust happen?

a)

1945 - 1950

b)

1920 - 1945

c)

1946 - 1960

d)

1933 - 1945

104.

During what war did the Holocaust take place?

a)

World War l

b)

World War ll

c)

The Revolutionary War

d)

The Napoleonic Wars

105.

Which people survived the Holocaust?

a)

Otto Frank

b)

Ralph Berts

c)

Bob Behr

d)

All of the above

106.

Who is Anne Frank?

a)

A survivor of the Holocaust.

b)

A girl

c)

A Jewish girl that went into hidding and is now know as a famous german diarist.

d)

A survivor of World War l

107.

How many people survived the Holocaust?

a)

3.5 million

b)

6,000

c)

5.3 million

d)

6 million

108.

Reorder the following

a)

Germany loses World War I

b)

Hitler attempts to overthrow the government

c)

Hitler goes to prison

d)

Hitler writes "Mein Kampf"

e)

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
109.

Hitler was a member of the ​ (a)   Party. After he came to power, he wanted to be called ​ ​ (b)   , which means "leader" in ​ (c)   . Hitler immediately enacted laws that ​ (d)   Jewish people. He forced them to live in cramped, fenced-in areas called ​ (e)   , where many Jewish people died.

Choose from the below words
Nazi
Communist
Furher
King
German
Serbian
targeted
ghettos
village
110.

This is something like a monument or ceremony that honors a person who died or serves as a reminder of an event in which many people have died.

a)

cemetery

b)

memorial

c)

headstone

d)

library

111.

Jews were dehumanized in all of the following ways except:

a)

transported in cattle cars

b)

brainwashed with anti-semitic propaganda.

c)

had their heads shaved

d)

isolated in Ghettos

112.
Which term means prejudice against or hatred of Jews?
a)
Semitism
b)
Anti-semitism
c)
ghetto 
d)
Holocaust
113.
What did Jewish people in Nazi controlled areas have to wear to identify them as Jews?
a)

a yellow star of David

b)

a sign that said Jew

c)

Black clothes

d)

A yellow cross

114.

After the ghettos, where were Jews taken to do forced labor?

a)

Ghettos

b)

Wisconsin

c)

Concentration camps

115.

How many Jewish men, women, and children were killed during World War II?

a)

About 6 hundred

b)

over six million

c)

over sixty million

d)

less than six thousand

116.

Adolf Hitler was the leader of which country?

a)

Italy

b)

Russia

c)

Japan

d)

Germany

117.

During what war did the Holocaust take place?

a)

World War l

b)

World War ll

c)

The Revolutionary War

d)

The Napoleonic Wars

118.

The deliberate destruction, in whole of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group is called

a)

Holocaust

b)

Genocide

c)

Concentration Camp

d)

Nuremberg Laws

119.

At the camps, some people were chosen to work, but many were _______________shortly after they arrived.

a)

escaped

b)

let go

c)

forced into slavery

d)

killed

120.

In your own words, explain the conditions in Germany at the time that Hitler was able to rise to power. Give two reasons why you believe the German people backed Hitler and went along with the Holocaust.

4 lines
121.

In your own words, tell me about your experience learning about the Holocaust this week. Some ideas to write about include:

What did you find surprising?

What are you still curious to learn about?

Would you like to visit a Holocaust museum someday?

Would you ever visit a concentration camp?

(This should be more than one sentence.)

4 lines

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