Module 14, Lesson 3 (The Holocaust)

This term refers to the Germanic peoples and claims they were the "master race"...

• Northerners

• Anglo-Saxons

• Aryans

• Afro-Iberians

What was the Holocaust?

• Ethnic killings in Rwanda between the Hutus and the Tutsis

• The systematic killing of Jews by Nazi Germany

• The destruction of Islamic holy sites in the Middle East

• The genocide in Kosovo

What was the event called where gangs of Nazis broke into Jewish synagogues, businesses, and homes and caused a lot of destruction and terror?

• Krystallnacht

• Nuremberg Trials

• Final Solution

• Auschwitz

What were ghettos?

• large area in city with tents for Jews to live in

• Jewish gang territory for resistors

• segregated areas in a city surrounded by walls or fences

• small area in the country where Jews stayed hidden from the Nazis

What was the "final solution" to the "Jewish problem"?

• Use of ghettos to confine and control the Jewish population.

• Use of death by shooting to eliminate the Jewish population.

• Work camps to keep the Jews busy and not have them be economic competition in German towns.

• Industrial death camps, where gas was to be the primary means of execution.

The systematic murder of an entire people...

• defenestration

• homicide

• genocide

• regicide

How many Jews died as a result of Nazi massacres and extermination camps?

• 10,000

• 60,000,000

• 2,500,000

• 6,000,000

What was Hitler's first plan to rid Germany of its Jewish Population?

• He isolated Jews in ghettos.

• He wanted Jews to emigrate to other countries.

• He wanted to destroy Jewish shops and businesses.

• He wanted to exterminate Jews in death camps.

The Nazis built __________________ in camps such as Auschwitz so they could institute the Final Solution.

• Factories

• Hospitals

• Jail Cells

• Gas Chambers

The German term Kristallnacht refers to...

• Fine champagne

• Famous R&B artist

• Starry night

• Night of broken glass