Death Camps
Gas Chambers
The executions carried out during the Holocaust evolved from using mobile killing units, firing squads, to what method of killing?
What types of camps carried out executions according to the “Final Solution”?
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The Nazis had their own militia became known as the S.A., the Storm Troops, or what? | Brown Shirts |
Which “race” did the Nazis believe that they descended from that made Germans superior to other groups? | Aryan |
What title did Adolf Hitler go by that means “leader” in German? | Fuhrer |
Which law passed in the German parliament gave the government the power to ignore the constitution for four years while it attempted to resolve Germany’s problems? | Enabling Act |
By 1929, the Nazi Party became the largest political party in the German parliament, which goes by what name? | Reichstag |
Which empire, centered in modern-day Turkey, fell after World War I and led to several new British and French mandates in the Middle East? | Ottoman |
A military coup in Tehran eventually led Persia to become which modern state in 1935? | Iran |
Where did the Zionist movement want to establish an independent Jewish state? | Palestine |
Which minority Christian group faced death and exile at the hands of the Ottomans in 1915? | Armenians |
Which document became the basis for the support of the modern state of Israel? | Balfour Declaration |
The executions carried out during the Holocaust evolved from using mobile killing units, firing squads, to what method of killing? | Gas Chambers |
What is the word meaning the mass murder of a particular racial, political, or cultural group? | Genocide |
On August 23, 1939 Hitler and which Soviet leader signed a Non-Aggression Pact? | Joseph Stalin |
Which German laws defined who was a Jew, stripped Jews of their civil rights, took citizenship away from Jews, and banned marriages between Jews and German citizens? | Nuremberg Laws |
On November 9, 1938 which violent event took place where Jewish synagogues were burned, 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested? | Kristallnacht |
The “Final Solution” was Hitler’s plan to kill which “inferior” ethnic group? | Jews |
With which ethnic group did Hitler plan to repopulate the East (places like Poland and Czechoslovakia)? | Germans |
What types of camps carried out executions according to the “Final Solution”? | Death Camps |
Which “inferior” ethnic group that lived in the East did Hitler plan to move further east into the Soviet Union and make into slaves? | Slavs |
Which group of people were to move to the Soviet Union in order to oversee slave labor according to Hitler’s plan? | German Peasants |
What nickname did Mohandas Gandhi go by, which meant “Great Soul”? | Mahatma |
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s policy rejecting the use of U.S. military forces in Latin America was known as what? | Good Neighbor Policy |
What was the driving force behind protests for liberty, equality, modernization, and liberation in Africa following World War I? | Nationalism |
Which Latin American nation experienced several coups leading to the election of Juan Perón in the 1930s? | Argentina |
The U.S. denounced Nazi aggressive acts but passed a series of Neutrality laws during the 1930s to prevent U.S. involvement in foreign wars under its policy of what? | Isolationism |