1936 Olympics
True or false: German newspapers acknowledged the successes of Jewish and Black athletes.
What is false?
The Anschluss was the annexation of this European country.
What is Austria?
Many Jewish people fled after this event also known as "the night of broken glass?"
What is Kristallnacht?
This word is used to identify the areas of Europe that speak German.
What is the Sudetenland?
This first letter of the acronym is meant to start broad and then get more specific.
This black athlete famously won 4 gold medals against his "aryan" competitors.
Who is Jesse Owens?
Hitler wanted Austria because they spoke this common language.
What is German?
This boat was meant to take refugees to Cuba, but was nearly sent back to Germany.
What was the St. Louis?
This word refers to the secret police in Germany.
This second letter of the acronym asks you to analyze who the author was addressing the document to.
What is intended audience?
Germany took down these signs during the olympics as a form of propaganda.
What is "No Jews Allowed?"
The Anschluss led to an expansion of these laws.
What is Nuremberg/anti semitic laws?
This global economic crisis made countries hesitant to take in refugees.
What is the Great Depression?
This word means an organized massacre, persecution, or mob attack, either approved of or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority especially against Jewish people
What is pogrom?
This third letter of the acronym has you consider the characteristics of the author and any biases they may have.
What is point of view?
Germany chose to host the 1936 Olympics for this reason.
What is to prove the Aryan race's superiority? (Or another response that shows logic and an understanding of racial politics at the time)
Jewish individuals were allowed to leave Austria under this crucial condition.
What is they were not allowed to take their money or possessions?
This refugee policy brought 10,000 children to Britain, but was unsuccessful in the US.
What was the Kindertransport program?
This term is often used to denote refugees to describe the fact that they have citizenship to no country.
Stateless persons
This final letter of the acronym asks you to infer why the author wrote or created this document.
What is purpose?
Other countries considered this action against Germany hosting the Olympics.
What is boycotting?
A reason that other countries did not act against Germany at this time may include this.
Many accepted answer. Must follow logic based on global politics at the time.
This relatively successful refugee program brought Jewish individuals to Britain and then transferred them to the US through the quota system.
What is the Smallbones Scheme?
This term describes the policy in which a country does not interfere with foreign politics. It was a common ideology in the US at the time.
What is isolationism?
When looking at a documents purpose, it is likely one of these three things (synonyms accepted).
What is inform, entertain, or persuade?