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WWII & The Holocaust
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| By 1945 two out of every _________ European Jews had been killed. | 3 |
| How many total Jews were murdered in the Holocaust? | 6 million |
| How many total were murdered in the Holocaust? | 11 million |
| Name the groups of people that the Nazi's targeted for extermination. | Jews, Poles, Soviet POWs, political dissidents, homosexuals, mentally & Physically handicapped, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, Socialists |
| What is "Nazi" a short term for? | National Socialist German Workers Party |
| What year was the Nazi Party formed? | 1919 |
| What year did Adolf Hitler become the head of the Nazi party? | 1921 |
| What year did Hilter become the Chancellor of Germany? | 1933 |
| The Jews were sent to the _______________ before being deported to the Concentration Camps. | Ghetto |
| What country saved most of it's Jewish population in a nighttime rescue operation in 1943 by ferring them in boats to Sweden. | Denmark |
| What is the name of the SS Officer and Physician at Auschwitz who performed experiments on the concentration camp prisoners? | Josef Mengele |
| What was Josef Mengele also known as? | The Angel of Death |
| What group of prisoners did Mengele mostly do his experiments on? | twins |
| What 3 countries made up the Axis Powers? | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| What countries made up the Allies during WWII? | Great Britian, France, and the countries siding with them. |
| What is the definition of "Blitzkrieg"? | Lightning War |
| Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britian during the majority of WWII? | Winston Churchill |
| What was the German "Luftwaffe"? | German Air Force |
| To which country did the "Red Army" belong? | Russia |
| The US remained neutral during WWII until what event? | The attack on Pearl Harbor |
| What is the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor? | Dec. 7, 1941 |
| What country performed the attack on Pearl Harbor? | Japan |
| Who said, "Dec. 7th is a date that will leave in infamy"? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Who was the US president during the majority of WWII? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Who was president of the US after Roosevelt died? | Harry S. Truman |
| During WWWII, who was the leader of Russia? | Joseph Stalin |
| On what two cities did the US drop atomic bombs to end WWII? | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| What year did the Nazi assault on the Jews begin? | 1933 |
| The Nazi ideology claimed that the Jews were the arch-enemy of the ___________ __________. | Aryan race |
| What is the term that means hatred of the Jews? | Antisemitism |
| What is the name of the laws that defined the Jews according to 'racial' criteria and stripped them of citizenship? | Nuremberg Laws (1935) |
| What was the date of Kristallnacht? | November 9-10, 1938 |
| What is the meaning of Kristallnacht? | 'Crystal Night': the night of broken glass |
| What events occurred during Kristallnacht? | Nazi police dressed in civilian clothes burned down synagogues, broke into Jewish homes, beat men, women and children, murdered and arrested Jewish men, and sent them to concentration camps. Then made them pay for the damages. |
| Who were the first people targeted by the Nazi agenda? | Political Opponants, the mentally and physically handicapped |
| What was the name of the mobile killing units? | Einsatzgruppen |
| What was the name of the largest death camp during WWII? | Auschwitz |
| Who was the dictator of Italy at the beginning of WWII? | Benito Mussolini |
| What is the name of a prison of starvation, torture and murder | Concentration Camp |
| Giving up principles to pacify aggressors | appeasement |
| WWII spending ended this economic slump in America | Great Depression |
| Government allows no individual rights | Totalitarian |
| The US general who liberated Paris in 1944 | George Patton |
| The US general who commanded D-Day and Allied invasions of the European mainland | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| The suicidal military tactic of pilots crashing bomb-laden planes into targets. | Kamikaze |
| the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry | Holocaust |
| number of Jews that lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during World War II. | 9.5 million |
| number of gypsies, homosexuals, handicapped, political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses and other "undesirables" murdered by the Nazi during the Holocaust. | 5 million |
| What the Germans who were thought to be "racially superior" were called. | Aryan |
| A "holding place" for Jews before being transported to the Concentration Camp | Ghetto |
| Germany's intent to kill all the Jews of the Europe | Final Solution |
| prejudice and hostility toward Jews as a religious, racial, or ethnic group | anti-semitism |
| In the concentration camp, what color badge was worn by the homosexuals? | pink |
| In the concentration camp, what color badge was worn by the political prisoners? | red |
| In the concentration camp, what color badge was worn by the habitual criminals? | green |
| In the concentration camp, what color badge was worn by the Jews? | yellow |
| In the concentration camp, what color badge was worn by the people considered to be asocial? | black |
| In the concentration camp, what color badge was worn by the Jehovah's Witness? | purple |
| In the concentration camp, what color badge was worn by the gypsies? | brown |
| In the concentration camp, what color badge was worn by the Emigrants? | blue |
| The process, either official or unofficial, of people being involuntarily moved from their homes because of war, government policies, or other societal actions, requiring groups of people to find new places to live | Displacement |
| Law passed by U.S. Congress limiting the number of Jewish displaced persons who could emigrate to the United States | Displaced Persons Act of 1948 |
| Secret State Police | Gestapo |
| Living quarters Established mostly in eastern Europe (e.g., Lodz, Warsaw, Vilna, Riga, or Minsk) | Ghetto |
| The monotheistic religion of the Jews | Judaism |
| From the Greek word meaning dispersion | Diaspora |
| The Nazi policy of denying Jews basic civil rights such as practicing religion, education, and adequate housing. | Dehumanization |
| The Jewish Socialist Party founded in 1897 | Bund |
| A Nazi policy that would have sent Jews to an island off of Africa. | Madagascar Plan |
| Guard detachments originally formed in 1925 as Hitler's personal guard | SS |
| head of the SS and the secret police | Heinrich Himmler |
| Death Camp | Auschwitz |
| Council of Jewish "elders" established on Nazi orders in an occupied area. | Judenrat |
| Created in late 1941 as a "model Jewish settlement" to deceive the outside world, including International Red Cross investigators, as to the treatment of the Jews | Theresienstadt |
| Place in Warsaw where freight trains were loaded and unloaded | Umschlagplatz |
| A six-pointed star which is a symbol of Judaism | Star of David |
| German euphemism for the deportation of prisoners to killing centers in Poland | Resettlement |
| What country saved most of its Jewish population | Denmark |
| WWII started on what date | Sept. 1, 1939 |
| The Munich Agreement gave what land to Germany? | The Sudenland |
| The union between Austria and German is called__________ | Anchluss |
| The demilitarized zone after WWi between Germany and France is called_______ | Rhineland |
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