Holocaust Test

Question 1

Eugenics

Answer 1

selectively picking humans to breed them for certain characteristics

Question 2

Sterilization

Answer 2

surgery to make a human or animal unable to produce offspring

Question 3

What standard needs to be met for someone to become sterilized?

Answer 3

hereditary disease, mentally retarded, schizophrenics, epileptic, alcoholics

Question 4

Who can recommend someone to be sterilized?

Answer 4

state physician, inmates in hospitals, head leaders of nursing homes, etc.

Question 5

What is the only situation one can refuse to be sterilized?

Answer 5

if the person applied willingly to be sterilized

Question 6

What is the purpose of sterilization?

Answer 6

To prevent the production of humans that are mutilated (worth less than others that are healthy). The Nazis wanted healthy stable citizens to fight for their country.

Question 7

Euthanasia

Answer 7

intentionally ending a life to end their suffering/pain

Question 8

Rome-Berlin Axis

Answer 8

Hitler signed an alliance with Italy. It basically said to ally each other if they were attacked by a communist country.

Question 9

Munich Conference

Answer 9

Hitler demands for Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. A meeting with Britain, France, Italy, and Germany.

Question 10

Anschluss

Answer 10

Hitler annexed Austria to Germany. Hitler threatened Austria to invade them, Austria eventually gives in and gives their land to Germany.

Question 11

Germany gains in order from earliest to latest occurring: Rhineland, Sudetenland, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia.

Answer 11

Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czech, Poland

Question 12

What was the T-4 program?

Answer 12

A program to exterminate the mentally ill and handicapped. To “cleanse the Aryan race”

Question 13

What justification (excuse) was used for the sterilization programs?

Answer 13

To protect the bloodline of Germany, criminality, intelligence, and poverty were supposedly passed down.

Question 14

What justification (excuse) was used for the T-4 program?

Answer 14

Eliminate the financial burden

Question 15

What policy was created between the British and France used with Hitler?

Answer 15

Appeasement

Question 16

What were the primary responsibilities of the SS?

Answer 16

protect Hitler and other Nazi leaders, identify ethnicity, population policy, and intelligence collection

Question 17

Full name of the SS? Established date? Who was in charge?

Answer 17

Schutzstaffel, 1925, Heinrich Himmler.

Question 18

What were the 5 largest ghettos? Which country?

Answer 18

Lódz, Kraków, Lublin, and Lvov, Warsaw

Question 19

How many people roughly were killed in Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 19

1.5 million

Question 20

Describe the ghettos?

Answer 20

Filthy, shocking, overcrowded, unsanitary, poor, ill health, unkept, etc.

Question 21

List the 3 types of ghettos

Answer 21

Closed, open, and destruction ghettos

Question 22

What is the difference between open ghettos and closed ghettos?

Answer 22

Open ghettos are used for temporary use, and closed ghettos are where prisoners go when they are permanently living there.

Question 23

Describe an open ghetto

Answer 23

no walls or fences, no restrictions on entering or exiting

Question 24

Describe a closed ghetto

Answer 24

closed off by walls or fences

Question 25

Describe a destruction ghetto

Answer 25

tightly sealed off, short lived ghettos, very temporary

Question 26

What term was used to define the special Jewish councils in ghettos that ran government operations within the ghetto?

Answer 26

Judenraete

Question 27

Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact

Answer 27

An alliance signed with the Soviets when they invade Poland to share it.

Question 28

Einsatzgruppen

Answer 28

Mobile killing units

Question 29

‘Night of the Long Knives’

Answer 29

‘The Rohm Purge.’ Ernst Rohm was assassinated and the SA was no longer a program. Nazis used his assassination as an excuse to start killing anyone.