history

Question 1

holocaust

Answer 1

the systematic murder of millions, mostly Europe’s Jews, by the Nazis and their collaborators during ww2

Question 2

shoah

Answer 2

a hebrew word for the holocaust

Question 3

genocide

Answer 3

deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group

Question 4

ubermenschen

Answer 4

nazis used this word for their idea of an Aryan ‘master race’

Question 5

untermenschen

Answer 5

nazi term for inferior people, seen as sub-human or degenerates

Question 6

eugenics

Answer 6

the principle of being able to ‘breed’ in or ‘breed’ out certain genetic qualities of people; in an extreme case to remove an entire ethnicity

Question 7

einsatzgruppen

Answer 7

SS killing squads

Question 8

ghettos

Answer 8

before death camps were set up, Jews were forced into isolated Jew-only areas. they has no control over this, and living conditions were very bad

Question 9

antisemitism

Answer 9

a prejudice on jews

Question 9

death camps

Answer 9

set up to increase the speed of killing people. this was mostly done by deadly gas, but prisoners also died from hard work and being fed almost no food.

Question 9

persecution

Answer 9

killing

Question 10

assimilate

Question 11

scapegoat

Answer 11

put the blsme on someone or a group of people

Question 12

shtetl

Question 13

How did discrimination lead to genocide