World War 2 in Europe: Part 2

Question 1

1941-1944

Answer 1

• the Holocaust - more than 6 million Jews were mass murdered
• another 6 million non-Jews were also killed
• Gypsies
• Slavic people
• mentally and physically disable
• homosexuals
• political opponents

Question 2

largest ghetto

Answer 2

• Warsaw, Poland
• unsanitary housing
• contagious diseases
• no food
• tens of thousands died in the ghettoes

Question 3

note

Answer 3

• killing squads sued to murder many Jews in Soviet Union
• SS soldiers took their valuables, marched them to the outskirts of town, and shot them
• bodies were dumped in mass graves
• killing squads killed more than 1 million Jews this way

Question 4

genocide

Answer 4

• the carefully planned killing of an entire group of people based on their race or culture
• Nazis began rounding up hundreds of thousands of Jews and shipping them on trains or trucks to concentration camps and death camps

Question 5

largest death camp

Answer 5

• Auschwitz in Poland
• many people in the death camps were killed by the gas chambers
• others died of starvation and exhaustion
• others were the victims of cruel experiments done by Nazi doctors

Question 6

thousands of Jews died in the ghettos, due to the scarcity of food and the _______

Answer 6

• non-sanitary housing
• crammed living conditions
• mass shootings

Question 7

Hitler blamed the ________ for Germany’s defeat back in WWI

Answer 7

• Jews

Question 8

“The Final Solution” was Hitler’s plan to exterminate the entire _______ race

Answer 8

• Jewish

Question 9

Hitler wrote a book called “_________” which outlined his plan for the extermination of all Jews in Europe

Answer 9

• Mein Kampf

Question 10

about how many Jews were murdered in the Holocause

Answer 10

• 6,000,000