Vocabulary
The event where the Nazis killed 11 million people.
What is the Holocaust?
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?
The years of the Holocaust.
When was 1941-1945?
The name of the worldwide economic crisis during the 1920s and 1930s.
What was the Great Depression?
Facilities where Jews were held and forced to work or await execution.
What are concentration camps?
When did the Holocaust happen?
1941-1945
The largest concentration camp.
What is Auschwitz?
The plan to murder every Jew under German rule.
What was the Final Solution (1942)?
The name of the peace treaty that ended World War I.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Acts of cruelty and brutality that are judged to be beyond the accepted rule of war and human behavior
What are war crimes?
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.
The location of most of the extermination camps.
Where is Poland?
The "night of broken glass" when Jewish homes, shops, and synagogues were attacked.
What was Kristallnacht?
The name of the Allied commander in the Pacific?
Who was General MacArthur?
Prejudice against Jews.
What is anti-Semitism?
Why did the Holocaust happen?
Anti-Semitism
The first concentration camp.
What is Dachau?
The name given to mobile killing squads used during the German occupation of the Soviet Union.
What was the Einsatzgruppen?
The name of the Allied commander in Europe?
Who was General Eisenhower?