Holocaust Review

What was the Holocaust?

• A religious conflict in Europe
• A political movement in Germany
• A period of mass extermination of a group of people for ethnic, racial, religious or other reasons
• A war between Germany and other European nations

What were the causes of the Holocaust?

• Political issues only
• Economic factors only
• Religious issues, political issues, economic factors, and social prejudice
• Religious issues only

Who orchestrated the Holocaust?

• The Jews
• The Nazis
• The Allied Powers
• The Soviet Union

What is genocide?

• The mass extermination of a group of people for ethnic, racial, religious or other reasons
• A war between Germany and other European nations
• A political movement in Germany
• A religious conflict in Europe

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

• Laws that stripped Jews of their German citizenship and civil liberties
• Laws that gave Jews their own state in Germany
• Laws that gave Jews more rights in Germany
• Laws that allowed Jews to leave Germany

What was Kristallnacht?

• A Jewish holiday celebrated each year

• A political movement in Germany

• A German holiday celebrated each year

• Violence in which Jewish shops and buildings were destroyed and synagogues were burned down

What were ghettos?

• places where Jews were allowed to live when they left Germany

• places where Jews were given more rights than in Germany

• places where Jews were given their own state in Germany to live freely

• places where Jews were effectively imprisoned to segregate them from the German population

What were the living conditions like in ghettos?

• Clean and well-maintained
• Comfortable and spacious
• Luxurious and extravagant
• Appalling, with disease, hunger and overcrowding killing tens of thousands

What were concentration camps?

• Places where Jews were given their own state in Germany

• Places where Jews were given more rights

• Places where Jews were allowed to leave Germany

• Places where Jews did forced labor and were subjected to appalling conditions, disease, brutal treatment, and starvation

What were death camps?

• Places where Jews were given their own state in Germany
• Places where Jews were given more rights
• Places where Jews were allowed to leave Germany
• Places where Jews were transported to in cattle car trains from all over Europe and murdered in gas chambers and cremated