The Holocaust

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from the reading at history.com http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust
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Questão 1

Questão
"Holocaust" traditionally had meant
Responda
  • a burnt offering used as a sacrifice
  • a caustic hologram
  • a hollow vessel that was costly
  • a time of renewal

Questão 2

Questão
When people talk about "the Holocaust" now, they are usually referring to
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  • The volcano on top of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy
  • The fires during the 1890's when the forests of Uzbekistan burned
  • A time during World War II when approximately 6 million Jews and others deemed undesirable were killed in Europe by the Axis powers, mostly Nazi Germany.
  • A group of people who protest against injustice in Europe

Questão 3

Questão
"Anti-Semitic" means
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  • someone who is against the Seminole Indians receiving restitution from the United States government for loss of their ancestral homelands
  • someone who does not believe the polarity of the magnetic field of the earth has ever changed.
  • a certain type of antiseptic that works for very new diseases like Ebola
  • a racial bias against Jews

Questão 4

Questão
Adolph Hitler was born in
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  • Poland
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Yugoslavia

Questão 5

Questão
Adolph Hitler blamed the Jews for
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  • the lunar eclipse of 1899, when he was 10 years old
  • making him eat fish cakes at his school on Fridays
  • the fact that Germany lost World War I
  • the fact that there exist black people in Africa

Questão 6

Questão
Adolph Hitler's book that describes his philosophy that led to Nazism in which he predicted a general European war that would result in “the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany.” was
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  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • Gesundheit
  • Guten Tag
  • Mein Kampf

Questão 7

Questão
A concentration camp was
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  • a place you could get away on retreat and concentrate on your work
  • a place where Jews and others deemed undesirable were sent to be eliminated
  • a camp for kids to go to in summer to increase their concentration skills
  • a chemical plant where dyes were concentrated until they were dark enough to be used to color military uniforms

Questão 8

Questão
The first concentration camp was built in [blank_start]Dachau[blank_end] and was under the control of [blank_start]Heinrich[blank_end] [blank_start]Himmler[blank_end].
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  • Dachau
  • Heinrich
  • Himmler

Questão 9

Questão
Under the [blank_start]Nuremberg[blank_end] Laws Jews became the targets of stigmatization and persecution.
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  • Nuremberg

Questão 10

Questão
"Kristallnacht" is the "night of [blank_start]broken[blank_end] [blank_start]glass[blank_end]" in [blank_start]1938[blank_end] when synagogues were burned and Jewish shop windows were smashed. One Hundred Jews were killed and thousands more arrested.
Responda
  • broken
  • glass
  • 1938

Questão 11

Questão
The "final solution" to the "Jewish question" was to
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  • put all the Jews on boats and send them out of the country via the Rhine River
  • convert the Jews to Naziism and change their names to traditional German names
  • eliminate all Jews from German occupied lands by killing them and give their property to Germans
  • allow the Jewish population to have an equal vote in the Senate

Questão 12

Questão
In September 1939 the Jews of Germany were forced into [blank_start]ghettoes[blank_end] — crowded areas surrounded by fences in which the Jews were allowed to run their own affairs, but they were not allowed to leave.
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  • ghettoes

Questão 13

Questão
At a camp called [blank_start]Auschwitz[blank_end], over 2 million people were killed. In the year 1944, 12000 Jews were killed there every day.
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  • Auschwitz

Questão 14

Questão
After the war, during the years 1945 and 1946 the [blank_start]Nuremberg[blank_end] Trials were held, in which Nazi atrocities were brought to light, and some of the perpetrators who had survived the war were convicted by the Allies.
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  • Nuremberg

Questão 15

Questão
The Jews were given a homeland in Israel in the year [blank_start]1948[blank_end].
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  • 1948

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