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Nazi Germany and the Holocaust test

Terms in this set (42)

Kristallnact is known as the Night of the
Broken Glass
Lebensraum means
living space
We have read about Adolf Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch. What does the word Putsch mean?
Revolution
What was the month in year of Hitler's invasion of Poland
September 1939
The night of the Long knives was a movie created by Josef Goebbels, head of German propaganda
False
Jews had to wear a pink colored Star of David wall in the camps?
False
What is the meaning of the word anti-semitism?
Hatred of the Jews
What were Germany's mobile killing squads used in Eastern Europe called?
Einsatzgruppen
Which group of words best describe the Evian Conference?
1938, france, Roosevelt invites world leaders, discuss Jewish refugee problem, failure
In 1907 Hitler goes to Vienna for what reason?
To study art
What two words below were Hitler's main goals
All of the above
Which group of words has the most to do with Hitler's rise to power in Germany
World depression charismatic speaking ability, economic troubles after world war I
What were the two cities in Japan that the United States bombed to end world war II?
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Which event in 1935 took away Jewish citizenship?
Nuremberg Trials
Which word best describes the phrase lightning war
Blitkrieg
While Hitler was in prison he wrote a book he entitled Mein Kampf? What does it mean in English?
My struggle (my battle)
What does the word Nazi stand for
National Socialist German Workers Party
What kept Germany from conquering Russia (Moscow) from 1941 onward
General January and general February (weather)
The German air force was called the
Luftwaffe
The German secret police was called the
Gestapo
Which group of words best describes the Wannsee conference?
1942, German leaders, final solution, plans to exterminate Jews
Who were the allied countries during world war II
Great Britain, France, USSR, and United States
Who were the Axis powers during world war II
Germany, Italy, Japan
What worldwide event happened in 1929 that allowed Adolf Hitler to gain control in Germany
World depression
Hermann Goering
2nd in command
Josef Goebbels
Head of propaganda
Rudolf Hess
Hitler's secretary
Heinrich Himmler
Chief Executioner
Adolf Eichmann
Gestapo Head of Jewish Affairs
In what year did Kristallnact occur
1938
What was the year of the amphibian like invasion of normandy, France by the allies
1944
What year did world war II end
1945
How many million Jews and other groups of people were killed during the Holocaust
11 million
What year was out of Hitler born
1889
What was the name of the first concentration camp set up by Adolf Hitler?
Dachau
What was the name of the gas used by the Germans to kill the jews?
Zyklon B
Which group of words best describes the history of Jewish anti-semitism?
Money lenders considered evil Christ killers blamed for Black death in world war I and baptism or death segregated into ghettos black magic and minority religion
Which words best describe a Mischligne
Aryan, Jewish, polluted blood, superior
December 7th, 1941 was the day that the United States was attacked at Pearl harbor by the Japanese?
True
What sign appeared over the entrance of one of the camps?
Work means freedom!
The Nazis used of film, newspapers, posters and speeches in an attempt to persuade people to think like them. This is called?
Propaganda
Which words or phrases best describes Hitler's euthanasia program
German babies with birth defects, mental handicapped, t4, carbon monoxide, Hadamar
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