Nedelocoff WWII/Holocaust Test - Jews
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julesjossart on May 31, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What was Hitler's plan regarding the Jews? | Not just killing -- complete extermination of the race; eliminate any evidence that Judaism ever existed |
| What were the Nuremberg Laws? | Taking away the Jews' civil rights; "Anti-Bill of Rights" |
| What was Kristallnact? | Night of Broken Glass; beginning of the end for the Jews; Nazis destroyed Jewish homes and businesses (streets were full of glass) |
| What was the Final Solution? | speeding up extermination of the Jews |
| Why was the Final Solution sped up at the end of the war? | Hitler knew that Germany would lose the war so he wanted to speed up the elimination of the Jews |
| Why was Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews systematic? | Hitler followed a step-by-step plan |
| Did the U.S. and other countries know what Germany was doing with the Jews at the beginning of the war? | Not very clearly |
| Explain steps Hitler took in his plan to exterminate the Jews. | 1) Passed Nuremberg Laws to take away Jews' civil rights 2) Caused Jews to wear the Star of David as identification 3) Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass (destroyed Jewish businesses) 4) Ghettos - gathered Jews into one area to isolate them 5) Sent to concentration camps 6) Killed or put to work 7) Final Solution - sped up extermination |
| How many Jews died at Auschwitz? | 1 million |
| What did the train scene symbolize? | Rounding up of Jews; taking Jews away |
| What did the Star of David symbolize? | Labeling Jews |
| What did the term "essential" symbolize or mean regarding Jews? | Only Jews that were essential (could provide a service or work) were allowed to live |
| What did "Left and Right" symbolize? | Left - lived; Right - died |
| Blue-eyed and blond | Aryan race; Supreme Race |
| Swastika | Nazi symbol |
| Define Eisatzgruppen. | SS killing units that sought out and slaughtered Jews in Soviet Union |
| Define scapegoat | blame innocent people for one's problems; Jews blamed for Germany's economic problems |
| Define Judenrat | Head of the Jewish council established by the Nazis in each Jewish ghetto |
| What was the Death March? | Marches imposed upon prisoners by the Nazis in order to keep them from liberation by the Allies at the end of the war |
| Define gestapo. | Hitler's secret police; did not have to follow rules and only answered to Hitler |
| Define SS | Part of the military of Nazi Germany that was in charge of eliminating the Jewish people |
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