ELB10:2- Final Exam (unit 2) - Holocaust & Holodomor

Who wrote the voices of the Holocaust poem?

Pastor Martin Niemoller

What is anti-semitism

prejudice against jews

Being Jewish in ancient times…

• enslaved

• were not a citizen of the Roman Empire

• called “christ killer”

Being Jewish in the middle ages…

• forced to live in a walled ghetto

• outside of the ghetto you were required to wear an identifying badge

• outcast and hated on

Describe Aryan “race”

Wilhelm Marr told people that Germans belonged to the Aryan “master race” and jews were by nature a “slave race” (1879)- Applied to people of Northern European ancestry especially people with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Describe pogroms

organized attacks against russian jews in 1881

What year did hitler go to jail?

1923

How did hitler get into power?

between germanys economic depression and hitlers way with words and persuasive speeches, he was appointed as chancellor in 1933. He later was elected president and named himself supreme leader.

What did hitler do once he got into power?

Made anti-semitism an offical government law

May 1933…

public burnings of books written by jews, political dissidents and others not approved by the state.

August 1934…

hitler names himself leader.

September 1935…

The “numreberg laws” were passes. This no longer considered jews as german citizens.

September 1938…

Britain and France accept German takeover as part of Czechoslovakia

November 1938…

All jewish kids are expelled from German schools

September 1941…

34,000 jews are massacred at Babi Yar outside Kiev, Ukraine.

October 1944…

Inmates at Auchwitz rebel and uprise.

August 1945…

Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima Japan

September 1945…

Japan surrenders and WWII ends.

Define concentration camp

• started on January 30th, 1933

• held political opponents, jehovah’s witnesses, gypsies, homosexuals and other people the government saw as a threat.

• in 1938 jews were targeted just because they were jews.

Define final solution

a cover name for the plan to destroy all jews of Europe.

Define genocide

the purposeful and systematic destruction of a religious, racial, national or cultural group of people.

Define ghetto

a section of the city where all jews from the surrounding area were forced to live. was surrounded by barbed wire or walls or both.

Define nazi

• originates from the German word National-sozialist

• a member and supporter of the National Socialist Party in Germany lead by hitler.

Define scapegoat

a person/group that is blamed for others problems

Define third reich

the German state during the nazi period.

What does “Dulce Et Decorum Est” mean?

It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.

Where did Holodomor take place?

Ukraine

Who is Stalin and what did he do?

He is the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union. 1924-1953. He had total power and turned USSR into a global superpower.

How many countries recognize Holodomor as a Genocide?

16

What does wheat symbolize in Ukraine?

it symbolizes life, prosperity and spiritual wealth.

What does exorbitant mean

excessively high numbers.

How quickly were Ukrainian dying at the hight of Holodomor?

25,000 a day

1,000 per hour

17 per minute

How much was Ukraines population reduced?

25%

What did the Soviet Union do to help?

absolutely nothing. they refuesd to acknowledge what was going on and refused help from anyone.

When was Holodomor recognized as a genocide

November 28th, 2006