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The Holocaust
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1"Holocaust" traditionally had meant
- Aa burnt offering used as a sacrifice
- Ba caustic hologram
- Ca hollow vessel that was costly
- Da time of renewal
2When people talk about "the Holocaust" now, they are usually referring to
- AThe volcano on top of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy
- BThe fires during the 1890's when the forests of Uzbekistan burned
- CA 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.
- DA group of people who protest against injustice in Europe
3"Anti-Semitic" means
- Asomeone who is against the Seminole Indians receiving restitution from the United States government for loss of their ancestral homelands
- Bsomeone who does not believe the polarity of the magnetic field of the earth has ever changed.
- Ca certain type of antiseptic that works for very new diseases like Ebola
- Da racial bias against Jews
4Adolph Hitler was born in
- APoland
- BGermany
- CAustria
- DYugoslavia
5Adolph Hitler blamed the Jews for
- Athe lunar eclipse of 1899, when he was 10 years old
- Bmaking him eat fish cakes at his school on Fridays
- Cthe fact that Germany lost World War I
- Dthe fact that there exist black people in Africa
6Adolph 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
- AEine Kleine Nachtmusik
- BGesundheit
- CGuten Tag
- DMein Kampf
7A concentration camp was
- Aa place you could get away on retreat and concentrate on your work
- Ba place where Jews and others deemed undesirable were sent to be eliminated
- Ca camp for kids to go to in summer to increase their concentration skills
- Da chemical plant where dyes were concentrated until they were dark enough to be used to color military uniforms
8The 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].
- ADachau
- BHeinrich
- CHimmler
9Under the [blank_start]Nuremberg[blank_end] Laws Jews became the targets of stigmatization and persecution.
- ANuremberg
10"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.
- Abroken
- Bglass
- C1938
11The "final solution" to the "Jewish question" was to
- Aput all the Jews on boats and send them out of the country via the Rhine River
- Bconvert the Jews to Naziism and change their names to traditional German names
- Celiminate all Jews from German occupied lands by killing them and give their property to Germans
- Dallow the Jewish population to have an equal vote in the Senate
12In 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.
- Aghettoes
13At 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.
- AAuschwitz
14After 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.
- ANuremberg
15The Jews were given a homeland in Israel in the year [blank_start]1948[blank_end].
- A1948
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- from the reading at history.com http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust
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