Types of Government
Any form of government in which one person has absolute control.
(North Korea, Germany under Hitler)
Dictatorship
Which country did Germany take over which prompted the start of WW2?
Poland
Why did Hitler target Jewish people?
(At least two reasons)
They were successful, they were not native to Germany, they were different (different traditions and religion), and there was also anti semitism going on in Europe.
What country attacked Pearl Harbor?
Japan
When is the last time Ellie Wiesel sees his mother and sister?
As they get off the train, men to the left and women and children to the right.
A totalitarian government based on a social system where goods are held in common.
(Russia, Cuba)
Communism
In what country did D-Day (the beaches at Normandy) take place?
France
Define Genocide and give an example.
Killing of a people based on their gene pool, example - Jewish people in the holocaust
What was a Kamikaze pilot?
Suicidal pilot from Japan
Why didn't the people believe what Moshe the Beadle was telling them? (What was he telling them?)
They thought he was crazy and it was too awful to be true. He told them they are rounding up Jews and shooting them.
A government subject to the provisions and limitations or a written and enforced constitution.
People vote and elect officials.
(US)
constitutional democracy
(either one of those words is correct)
Which three countries were on the side of Hitler at the start of the war?
Germany, Italy, Russia
What was the point of the Nuremberg laws and name one of those laws.
To strip rights and citizenship from the Jewish people. Ex - can't marry a Jewish person, etc...
Why was control of islands in the Pacific, like Midway, important during this war?
Allowed the US closer access to Asia or allowed Japan closer access to the US,
How and why do they remove Ellie Wiesel's gold tooth?
With a rusty spoon, because it was gold and the Nazis took anything of value.
A long sequence of rulers from the same family.
Dynasty
What was the only country in Europe not taken over by Germany at some point during WW2?
Great Britain
Why was Poland chosen for six major death camps?
Three reasons
Heavily forested so could hide what they were doing.
Little resistance to the German army
Lots of Jewish people there.
Name the two cities in Japan where the atomic bombs were dropped.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In the camp, he witnessed people being publicly hanged. Explain why any of these people were executed and why publicly?
The boy and the three adults. Hoarding a spoon and fork, trying to plan an escape, any other infraction they could think of. They did this publicly as a warning to other prisoners.
When there is a royal family, king or queen
Monarchy
Name two countries that America was allied with in their fight against Hitler?
Russia, Great Britain, Canada
What was Kristallnacht?
Night of broken glass where German citizens robbed, looted and destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues under the direction of the German police and government.
What was the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
December 7 (1941)
How were the prisoners treated differently on Christmas Day and name two things wrong with that...
1) They are Jewish and don't celebrate Christmas.
2) The Nazis guards going to church and celebrating Christmas came to work the next day to kill Jews. (hypocrisy)
They were given larger food rations that day and not made to work.