War Crimes and the Holocaust
Why did General Eisenhower force German civilians to visit liberated concentration camps? Check all of the boxes that apply.
He wanted the world to know what had happened. He did not want anyone to be able to deny that the Holocaust had occurred.
Most of the people killed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust were
Jewish people.
What was the ultimate result of the Final Solution?
Millions of Jewish people were murdered.
A similarity between Nazi policies towards Jewish people during World War II and policies in other countries during preceding centuries was that
Nazis discriminated against Jewish people.
Which of the following was a response to the issue of displaced persons after World War II?
The United Nations created a Jewish homeland, Israel, in Palestine.
Why were the events that took place on November 9, 1938, called Kristallnacht?
The windows of many Jewish-owned businesses were broken.
What steps did the Nazis take to control and eliminate the Jewish people?
They forced Jewish people into ghettos, concentration camps, and labor camps.
ghetto
a segregated neighborhood, such as one to which Jews were historically confined
By 1938, Jewish people in Nazi Germany were not allowed to work in the government or
attend schools and colleges.
In 1933, Hitler took action against Jewish people in Germany by
boycotting Jewish-owned businesses.
What Nazi policy targeted people who had disabilities?
euthanasia
In addition to Jewish people, a specific group that the Nazis systematically killed during the Holocaust was
people with disabilities.
Nazis thought that killing Jewish people, Roma, and other groups would
purify the German race.
According to what you've learned, Jewish people in Europe
suffered a long history of discrimination and mistreatment
genocide
the deliberate killing of a group of people because of their race, politics, or culture
anti-Semitism
the hatred of or discrimination against Jewish people
Heinrich Himmler
the head of the SS and ordered the deaths of millions of Jews, Roma, gay people, and others during the Holocaust.
Holocaust
the mass murder of Jews and other groups by German Nazis during World War II
Final Solution
the name that the Nazis used for the genocide of European Jews.
Before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, his book Mein Kampf called for
the removal of Jewish people from Germany.
In 1947, the United Nations helped create a country
where survivors of the Holocaust could live.