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Holocaust Review

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    Review of the Holocaust vocabulary and key evenys
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  • What did the Treaty of Versailles do?
    Blamed Germany for WWI, made Germany's land and military smaller, made Germany pay large fines
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  • What is this symbol called?
    Yellow star (or the Star of David)
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  • Why did Jewish people wear a yellow star?
    They were forced to wear the start to show they were different from German people.
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  • What is the Holocaust?
    The murder of many people, specifically Jews, by Nazis during WWII.
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  • What is anti-Semitism?
    Prejudice and discrimination against Jews
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  • What is one right the Nuremberg laws took away from Jewish people?
    The right to German citizenship, the right to marry (or have a relationship with) a German person, the right to work in government or news
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  • What does genocide mean?
    A plan to murder a whole political, religious, cultural group or race of people.
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  • Many Jewish people were deported from their homes and sent to ghettos. What is a ghetto?
    An area of a city that was usually enclosed with a fence, wall, or wire where Jews were separated from other people
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  • What are two problems Jewish people experienced when living in a ghetto?
    Little food, little water, lots of disease, crowded, no supplies, they could not leave
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  • What is the "Final Solution"?
    The Nazis plan to destroy all of the Jews in Europe.
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  • What is a concentration camp?
    Prison camps that held opponents of the Nazis, Jews, Roma, and other people.
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  • What happened to people who were in the concentration camps?
    They starved, got sick, did slave labor, or were killed
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  • What was the largest concentration camp (killing center)?
    Auschwitz
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  • How many Jews were murdered in Auschwitz?
    one million
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  • What is a scapegoat?
    A person (or group) that takes the blame for something they didn't do.
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  • Who was the Chancellor of Germany during WWII?
    Adolf Hitler
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