War Crimes and the Holocaust

Question 1

Hitler gained support for anti-Jewish policies in Germany by

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blaming Jewish people for the economic depression after World War I.

Question 2

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 3

Hitler and the Nazis believed killing Jewish people, Roma, and other groups would

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purify the German race and make life better for the German people.

Question 4

Most of the people killed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust were

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Jewish people.

Question 5

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 6

Nazis who forced Jewish people to live in ghettos also forced them to

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make war materials for Germany.

Question 7

The Final Solution was Nazi Germany’s plan to

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physically exterminate all Jewish people in Europe.

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.

Question 9

Approximately what percentage of all Jewish people living in Europe were killed during the Holocaust?

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about 60%

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