War Crimes and the Holocaust

Question 1

The Final Solution was Nazi Germany’s plan to

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physically exterminate all Jewish people in Europe.

Question 2

When the Nazi death camps were liberated, people around the world were most shocked by

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the size and scale of the camps.

Question 3

By 1938, Jewish people in Nazi Germany were not allowed to work in the government or

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attend schools and colleges.

Question 4

Before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, his book Mein Kampf called for

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the removal of Jewish people from Germany.

Question 5

Which contributed to Hitler’s rise to power in Germany?

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Hitler scapegoated German Jewish people by blaming them for Germany’s bad economy and defeat in World War I.

Question 6

The term coined after the end of World War II to describe the Nazis’ strategy to exterminate European Jewish people and other groups is the

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Holocaust

Question 7

In 1947, the United Nations helped create a country

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where survivors of the Holocaust could live.

Question 8

A similarity between Nazi policies towards Jewish people during World War II and policies in other countries during preceding centuries was that

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Nazis discriminated against Jewish people.

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