Identity
What is ' All ________ are __________ .'
What is the definition of racism?
What is ' when one race views another race as inferior to their own'?
What does anti-Semitism mean?
What is ' a hatred toward people of the Jewish faith '?
What were the FOUR stages of the Holocaust?
What is ' 1 - Exclusion/Isolation, 2 - Expulsion/Deportation, 3 - Enclosure/Ghettoization, 4 - Extermination '?
What is a perpetrator? Provide an example from Schindler's List or your HBC.
What is ' someone who commits wrongdoing' ?
Examples may vary.
What is the definition of prejudice?
What is 'applying a stereotype'?
What is your Universe of Obligation?
What is 'the sphere of people in your life that you love and care for'?
What is the definition of democracy?
What is ' a government of the people'?
What was Hitler's "Final Solution"?
What is ' a plan of genocide for all Jewish peoples ' ?
What is a bystander? Provide an example of a bystander from Schindler's List or your HBC.
What is 'someone who chooses to do nothing in the face of wrong/evil' ?
Examples may vary.
How would you define discrimination?
What is 'taking action on the prejudice'?
What does it mean to assimilate?
What is ' to make similar; to adopt the customs of a group/culture to fit in '?
What treaty ended World War I and placed the blame on Germany for the war?
What is ' The Treaty of Versailles' ?
What were the Nuremberg Laws? Why were they important?
What is 'laws that deprived Jews of citizenship'?
They were important because Jews were now seen as outsiders in Germany, rather than being simply German Jews.
What is the difference between an RESCUER and a RESISTOR ?
What is ' rescuer: someone who attempts to save victims from perpetrators, resistor: someone who ‘fights’ back against perpetrators '?
ANSWERS MAY VARY.
Correct answers should mention stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination in their application.
How has HIP HOP Music perpetuated stereotypes in our society?
ANSWERS MAY VARY.
Correct answers may include women objectification, men wanting to be thugs, making money being the goal in life, trouble with the law to be cool, etc.
How did inflation in Germany during the Weimar Republic help Adolf Hitler's rise to power?
What is ' inflation helped Hitler because it made the German population lose faith in the Weimar Republic and a desire to look elsewhere for leadership'?
What was the estimated total number of people killed during the Holocaust?
What is ' around 11 million people ... 6 million Jews and 5 million others ' ?
Schindler tells Goeth: "Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't."
What does this mean? Why is this important?
ANSWERS MAY VARY.
Correct answers could include how power to save is equally important.
What is 'the worry of a stereotype (or generalization) being applied to oneself' ?
Explain the assimilation process Kii Yahzi had to deal with at the Carlisle Indian School in the story Code Talkers.
ANSWERS MAY VARY.
Correct answers may include cutting his hair, changing his clothing, removing his jewelry, language, etc..
Losing a war pushes a population to extreme political parties. Where were the Nazis on the political spectrum? Where were the Communists?
What is ' Nazis were FAR right. Communists were FAR left '?
Explain the TWO most important factors that led to the Nazis rise to power.
Answers may vary.
Correct answers may include: Hitler's charisma, stock market crash and resulting inflation during Weimar Republic; German backlash from Treaty of Versailles; etc.
Provide an example of a perpetrator, bystander, upstander (rescuer and resistor) from any of our studies thus far.
ANSWERS MAY VARY.