WW2 and the Holocaust

Question 1

What are some points on how Churchill should be remembered?

Answer 1

stubborn, cared about soldiers, racist, patriotic, eccentric, ill-tempered, advocated for a Jewish state, wanted gas attacks to be used against Afgans

Question 2

How many were killed in WW2?

Answer 2

around 70m - 85% suffered from victors

Question 3

How many countries were involved?

Answer 3

61 countries

Question 4

how many people were involved in WW2

Answer 4

1.7 billion (3/4 world population then)

Question 5

Name some events of WW2

Answer 5

Invasion of Poland, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Barbarossa, Pearl Harbour, Midway, EL Alamein, Stalingrad, Kursk, Invasion of Italy, D-Day, Berlin March, Atomic

Question 6

What is the etymology of the word Holocaust?

Answer 6

holos- completely

kaustos- burnt sacrificial offering

Question 7

who lead the manhattan project and when was the first bomb tested?

Answer 7

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the first bomb was tested in July 1945

Question 8

When did Germany surrender in WW2?

Answer 8

8th may 1945

Question 9

How many people were killed in a single weekend in Tokyo due to fire bombings?

Answer 9

100,000 casualties

Question 10

When were the two atomic bomb droppings in Japan?

Answer 10

Monday, 6th August 1945 - Hiroshima,

Thursday 9th August 1945

Question 11

When did the holocaust officially happen?

Answer 11

1941-45

Question 12

What happened on the 15th of September 1935?

Answer 12

The Nuremburg laws - anti-Semitic laws.

Question 13

When did the Kristallnacht Pogrom happen?

Answer 13

9-10 November 1938

Question 14

What does genocide mean?

Answer 14

mass killing of people - the term was only coined after the holocaust

Question 15

Who were the Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 15

A secret police force that carried out the Holocaust by bullets

Question 16

When and where was ‘the final solution’ agreed upon?

Answer 16

The Wannsee conference, January 1942

Question 17

What was a Ghetto?

Answer 17

Sectioned parts of a city that the Nazis forced Jews to live in

Question 18

Who made the ‘give me your children’ speech?

Answer 18

Chaim Rumbowski in the Łódź ghetto

Question 19

What was everyone in Ghettos?

Answer 19

They were ‘dirt poor’

Question 20

When were most people sent to Concentration camps from Ghettos?

Answer 20

1942

Question 21

When were all Ghettos liquidated?

Answer 21

1943

Question 22

What was the largest Ghetto and when was it established?

Answer 22

Warsaw, October 1940

Question 23

What were some forms of resistance in the Holocaust?

Answer 23

Some people:
Hans Litten, Clemens Von Galen, Armin T Wegner, Sophie Scholl and Freya Von Mothke
There was a flask in Auswitz and a theatre in Łódź Ghetto

Question 24

Who was Oskar Shindler?

Answer 24

A factory owner who saved 1,200 people. At first he just wanted free Jewish labour, but by the end he was fighting a moral war.

Question 25

How many people did Carrie Ten Boom save?

Answer 25

800 Jews

Question 26

What were some rules put on Jews in the 1930s in Germany?

Answer 26

They can’t use telephones, can’t participate in sports groups, can be evicted at any time, and Jewish children can’t go to normal school