Vocabulary
Facilities where Jews were held and forced to work or await execution.
What are concentration camps?
What was the Holocaust?
The event where the Nazis killed 11 million people.
Facilities where Jews were held and forced to work or await execution.
What are concentration camps?
What event started the Holocaust?
Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass)
The name of the worldwide economic crisis during the 1920s and 1930s.
What was the Great Depression?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular usually through images or posters.
What is propaganda?
When did the Holocaust happen?
1938-1945 or 1933 -1945
The largest concentration camp.
What is Auschwitz?
The start of WWII
1939
The name of the peace treaty that ended World War I.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
A negative opinion or feeling about someone based on their group, without knowing them personally.
What is prejudice?
Who was targeted by the Holocaust?
Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and other ethnic groups.
The name for camps were people held during the Holocaust were systematically executed.
What were extermination camps?
The name of the trials of German leaders charged with war crimes after World War II.
What were the Nuremberg trials?
The event that started World War II?
What was the invasion of Poland?
Deliberate attempt to wipe out an entire group of people.
What is a genocide?
Where were the concentration camps?
Germany and German occupied areas.(Poland)
The location of most of the extermination camps.
Where is Poland?
The event that ended WWII
Hitler's suicide and Germany surrenders, concentration camps are liberated.
The name of the Prime Minister of Britain.
Who was Winston Churchill?
Prejudice against Jews.
What is anti-Semitism?
Why did the Holocaust happen?
Anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews. White supremacy, Nazism.
The leader of the United States during WWII?
Who is Franklin Roosevelt.
The plan to murder every Jew under German rule.
What was the Final Solution (1942)?
The name of the Axis leader in Europe?
Who was Adolf Hitler?