War Crimes and the Holocaust

Question 1

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 2

The Final Solution was Nazi Germany’s plan to

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physically exterminate all Jewish people in Europe.

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

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 5

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 6

How did the Holocaust affect the Jewish population in Europe after World War II?

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Millions were left without families or homes.

Question 7

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 8

Concentration camps built by Nazis in 1933 initially held

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political prisoners.

Question 9

In 1947, the United Nations helped create a country

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where survivors of the Holocaust could live.

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