Europe/Holocaust Quiz

Appeasement

To give someone (a bully) what they want in the hope that they will then leave you alone or stop making demands of you.

Fascism

A dictatorship in which the nation is prioritized over individual people and their freedoms.

Nazi

Adolf Hitler’s political party.

Concentration Camp 

A prison camp for people that have not committed a crime but society feels must be separated from the general population.

Anti-semitism 

Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.

Axis Powers 

Germany, Italy, and Japan were allied and were called the axis powers.

Allied Powers 

United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and France were allied and called the allied powers.

Holocaust

The murder of approximately 12 million people by the Nazi government in the 1930’s & 1940’s.

Armistice 

A formal agreement to have a truce or put a suspension on a war.

Dictatorship

A form of government in which all power is concentrated in a single person

Aryan Race

A mythical race of people that the Nazi’s claimed were superior to other races.

Ghetto

Sections of cities in which the Nazi’s forced the entire Jewish population of the surrounding area to live.

Cattle Cars

Railroad cars used by the Nazis to transport Jews and other victims to concentration camps, often in inhumane conditions.

Gestapo

The Nazi secret police.

Fuhrer

Leader in German. The title Adolf Hitler gave himself.

Kristallnacht

An organized pogrom against German Jews during the night of November 9 - 10, 1938

Third Reich

Nazi Germany

Lebensraum

“Living Space” The Nazi belief that the German people needed more territory in which to live comfortably (to be taken from other countries).

Target

someone who is the focus of mistreatment.

Perpetrator

Someone who says or does something against another person.

Ally

Someone who speaks out on behalf of someone else.

MAINIA

Militarism, alliance, imperialism, nationalism industrialization, and assassination

Anti-semitism

Antisemitism is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination towards Jews.

Nurembourg Race Laws

May 31, 1935 - Germany made a law that Jews could not serve in their army.

September 15, 1935 - The Reich Citizenship law and the law of the Protection of German Blood and German Honor Law

The Final Solution

To eliminate all Jews