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| The Holocaust was ____ | the systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and collaborators during WWII |
| The Nazi persecuted these groups for their beliefs _____ | Jews, blacks, Gypsies, mentally/physically disabled, Poles, Slavs, communists, socialists, trade unionists, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals |
| ____ was named Chancellor of the German government in 1933. | Adolf Hitler |
| Hitler was chosen Chancellor because _____ | the aged President Hindenburg hoped Hitler could lead the nation from political and economic crisis |
| The longer name of the Nazi Party is _____ | National Socialist German Workers Party |
| Hitler's special security forces were _____ | the Gestapo, the SA, and the SS |
| The Gestapo was the ______ | Special State Police |
| The SA was the _____ | Storm Troopers |
| The SS was the _____ | Security Police |
| The racial ideology of the Nazis was based on the idea that ____ | Germans were racially superior and they were in a struggle for survival with inferior races (such as Jews, Gypsies, etc.) |
| The Nazis, in their hatemongering propaganda, blamed the Jews for _____ | Germany's economic depression and Germany's defeat in WWI. |
| Propaganda is the _____ | promotion of ideas/practices to further one's own cause or damage another's cause |
| No public schools, no theaters, no vacation resorts, no parts of certain cities, no civil service jobs, and no citizenship were ______ | 5 anti-Jewish regulations imposed by the Nazis |
| Kristallnacht means _____ | Night of Broken Glass |
| What was Kristallnacht? | centrally organized riot; an economic attack on Jewish businesses, destruction of synagogues, and Jewish owned busineses, homes, and murder of Jews |
| Many Jews fled to _____ when they left Nazi persecution. | Palestine, U.S., Latin America, China, east and west Europe |
| Some Jews did not flee during Nazi persecution because _____ | they were unwilling to uproot family, unable to obtain a visa, sponsors, or funds; some countries were unwilling to admit large numbers of refugees |
| What happened on Sept. 1, 1939? | Germany invaded Poland and thus started WWII |
| The killing of people deemed "incurable" or "inferior" was called the _____ | "euthanasia" program |
| In 1940, the German forces defeated ______ | Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France |
| These countries made up the Allied Powers ______ | British Commonwealth, Free France, U.S., Soviet Union |
| In a ghetto _____ | victims of racial and ethnic hatred were segregated from the rest of the population, there were bad conditions, and the people tried to maintain their culture. |
| How did the Germans eventually eliminate the ghettos? | deported residents to "extinction camps" |
| How were the locations of "extermination camps" chosen? | close to rail lines, location in semi-rural areas |
| Where were the largest number of Jews and Gypsies killed? | Auschwitz-Birkenau (1.25 million +) |
| What happened to people after they arrived at a concentration camp? | Men were separated from women and children, forced to undress, hand over valuables, driven into gas chambers (disguised as shower chambers), asphyxiated. Some became forced labor. |
| Why did resistance organizations not give more aid to Holocaust victims? | Not a priority, principal goal was to fight the war against the Germans |
| What is a "death march?" | Evacuation of some camps to cover up evidence of genocide, long journeys on foot to another camp |
| What happened in May 1945? | Nazi Germany collapsed |
