holocaust test

beliefs and practices of Jewish people

judaism

hostility/discrimination against Jews

antisemitism

the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial political or cultural group

genocide

harassment or punishment to suffer because of belief 

persecution 

thinking characteristics of an individual, group, or culture

ideology

enclosed districts that isolated Jews

ghettos

spreading false information to help or harm

propaganda 

supposed master race of non-jewish white Germans

aryan race

planned vandalism of Jewish stores by nazis

kristallnacht- night of broken glass

hitlers 3 main motives for the holocaust

territorial expansion, elimination of european jews, racially pure state

hitlers reign

1933-1945

how did the German government try to isolate and persecute the Jews between 1933-1938

segregated schools, fired from jobs, boycott of Jew owned stores, loss of citizenship, anti-semitic laws, public antisemitism

what groups were considered racially inferior 

jews, blacks, Roma, Slavs, people with physical or mental disabilities 

what made it difficult for Jews to emigrate from Germany

nazis took away all their resources like passports and money and no country wanted them

how did German authorities treat Jews that occupied the =eastern territories during world war ll

ghettos for control, mass shooting, sent them to concentration camps and killing centers, forced labors

how did world war 1 and the treaty of Versailles lead to political instability in Germany 

had to take blame for starting WW1, territory shrunk, post war economic depression, had to pay money, Hitler then took advantage of the fear and anger

adolf Hitler supported the treaty of Versailles

false

hitler tried to seize control of the German government in 1923

ture

prior to 1933, hitlers hate for Jews was kept secret

false

the Nazis used propaganda to gain supporters 

true

the Nazis never received more than 38% of the vote in a national election prior to 1933

true

who were the first people sent to concentration camps

politicians who disagreed with the nazis

german swore an oath to Hitler, not germany

true

at aushwitz all Jews were immediately sent to gas chambers 

false

the word genocide was created to describe the crimes of the holocaust

true

how did the 1938 nuremberg law affect German Jews

• loss of citizenship

• forbidden to marry a non jew