Who joined Hitler in committing suicide on April 30, 1945?

Eva Braun and Goebbels and his wife.

Where did the Nazis expect to have the hardest time and why?

Western Europe because they were seen as their near equals.

What was Oskar Schindler awarded?

Yad Vashem’s “Righteous Among the Nations”

Norway reacted to Germany’s invasion by

Fighting until they were betrayed by a fascist leader

Who were the Sonderkommando?

Jews who worked in death camps and disposed of bodies.

What was the typical response by Nazis when Jewish partisans killed German soldiers?

Reprisals against the civilian population

Who were the Bielski brothers?

Leaders of a Jewish partisan resistance movement.

Which of the following badges were used in the concentration camps?

Pink Triangle for homosexuals, and Red for Communists

When asked “Why didn’t the Jews resist?” Elie Weisel wanted to ask instead…

“How so many of them did (fight)”

How did Britain and France respond to the attack on Poland?

Declared war on Germany, but did not intervene.

Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche’s book argued that:

Person’s worth is measured in contribution to the nation

Prisoners appointed to oversee other prisoners.

How did Oskar Schindler justify to the Nazis his keeping children as workers?

Their small fingers could clean inside the shell casings

Increased attention was paid to homosexuals in Germany in the 1920s because

Berlin had become a social hotspot for homosexuals.

As the Allies closed in what tactic did the Nazis use to get rid of more Jews?

Death Marches deeper into their own territory.

Allied amphibious landing in Normandy.

The belief that Jews should have their own nation

Why were Jews overrepresented in some professions?

They were barred from other professions.

The criteria for an individual to be named “righteous among the nations” by Yad Vashem

Non-Jewish people who saved Jews without any personal gain.

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1
German participation in this war gave it an opportunity to try out new military equipment.
Franco-Prussian War
American Civil War
French Civil War
Spanish Civil War
2
Who joined Hitler in committing suicide on April 30, 1945?
All of the top Nazi officials
No one.
None of these choices.
Eva Braun and Goebbels and his wife.
3
Where did the Nazis expect to have the hardest time and why?
Western Europe because they were seen as their near equals.
Africa because of the distance from home & harsh environment
Russia because of the harsh weather.
Eastern Europe because they were seen as their near equals.
4
Which of the following were all goals the Judenrat set for themselves?
Maintain productivity
All of these choices
Maintain order
Mediate with the Germans
5
What was Oskar Schindler awarded?
Pulitzer Prize
Yad Vashem’s “Righteous Among the Nations”
Nobel Peace Prize
Pulitzer Prize
6
Norway reacted to Germany’s invasion by
Fighting until they were betrayed by a fascist leader
Fighting to the end of the war.
Surrendering without a fight.
Norway was never invaded.
7
Who were the Sonderkommando?
Jewish resistance groups.
Jews who worked in death camps and disposed of bodies.
Elite Nazi soldiers who acted as special forces.
Nazis who worked in death camps and disposed of bodies.
8
Member of Hitler’s inner circle who established the Gestapo and was Chief of the Luftwaffe.
Joseph Mengele
Hermann Goring
Paul von Hindenburg
Adolf Eichmann
9
What was the typical response by Nazis when Jewish partisans killed German soldiers?
Reprisals against the civilian population
None of these choices
Retreat
Focus on retaliating against the partisans.
10
What was the final German military effort against the Allies?
D-Day
The Battle of Berlin
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of Stalingrad
11
Who was Elie Weisel?
All of these choices.
A survivor of Buchenwald, he was there when it was liberated
The best known survivor of the Holocaust from Hungary.
Author of Night, his personal account of the Holocaust.
12
Who were the Bielski brothers?
Nazis who profited from slave labor.
Survivors of five concentration camps.
Leaders of a Jewish partisan resistance movement.
Leaders of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
13
Who was the first member of Sonia Schreiber Weitz’s immediate family to be killed?
Her father
Her brother
All of these choices
Her mother
14
The night of Nov. 9, 1938 when many synagogues were destroyed became known as Kristallnacht, or
Night of Broken Dreams
Night of Terror
Night of Broken Glass
Night of the Long Knives
15
Which of the following badges were used in the concentration camps?
Rainbow Triangle for homosexuals, and Red for Communists
Pink Triangle for homosexuals, and Red for Communists
Rainbow Triangle for homosexuals, and Pink for Communists
Pink Triangle for homosexuals, and Blue for Communists
16
The first concentration camp was
Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
Chelmo
Dachau
17
When asked “Why didn’t the Jews resist?” Elie Weisel wanted to ask instead…
“Why should they (the Jews) have fought”
“Why they had to fight”
“How so many of them did (fight)”
“How could they have resisted”
18
This country was divided in half by the pact between Hitler and Stalin.
United States of America
Belarus
Poland
France
19
The Nazi head of propaganda who committed suicide with Hitler
Goebbels
Schindler
Wagner
Goeth
20
Which of these statements is true?
Some Americans were Nazis.
All Germans were Nazis.
All Nazis were Germans.
None of the above.
21
The term reparations refers to
Giving up a country’s military.
Paying for damage due to war.
Joining an international group of nations.
Killing civilians in response to partisans killing soldiers.
22
How did Britain and France respond to the attack on Poland?
Declared war on Germany, and brought the fight to Berlin.
Began bombing Germany.
They did not realize it happened.
Declared war on Germany, but did not intervene.
23
What kind of books were burned by Goebbels?
Communist authors
Jewish authors
Liberal authors
All of these choices
24
The term for applying the theory of “survival of the fittest” to groups of people is
Pan-Germanism
Intentionalism
Social Darwinism
Antisemitism
25
Germany’s democratic government from the end of World War I to 1933
Nazi Dictatorship
Weimar Republic
Ottoman Empire
German Democracy
26
Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche’s book argued that:
It was unfair to blame Germany for the First World War.
Germany should sterilize all people that were unfit for life
Person’s worth is measured in contribution to the nation
The Jewish people caused Germany to lose the First World War
27
Program that brought approximately 10,000 Jewish children from German controlled territory was
Blitzkrieg
Kindertransport
Appeasement
Sonderkommando
28
Why was Oskar Schindler arrested by the Nazis?
Killing Jews
Manufacturing faulty munitions
Kissing a Jewish woman
Killing Nazis
29
Who were kapos?
Jewish partisans.
Nazi guards in the concentration camps.
Prisoners appointed to oversee other prisoners.
Nazi camp commandants.
30
How did Oskar Schindler justify to the Nazis his keeping children as workers?
Their small fingers could clean inside the shell casings
In order to save their lives
He liked having short people around
None of these choices
31
What event in January 1942 sped up Germany’s mass murders?
Battle of Stalingrad
Yalta Conference
Wannsee Conference
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
32
Why did Oskar Schindler flee at the end of the war?
He was a munitions manufacturer
He had run a concentration camp
All of these choices
He had profited from slave labor
33
Did Hitler have a Jewish heritage?
Yes
No
34
Increased attention was paid to homosexuals in Germany in the 1920s because
Berlin had become a social hotspot for homosexuals.
All of these choices.
Germans believed homosexuals were the reason they lost WWI
Many Germans believed homosexuality was related to Judaism
35
Which group was NOT targeted by the Nazis?
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Gypsies
Austrians
Communists
36
Before World War II began what was German public opinion about another war?
All of these choices
Unanimous enthusiasm
Complete indifference
Unease and lacking enthusiasm
37
As the Allies closed in what tactic did the Nazis use to get rid of more Jews?
Set the camps on fire with all of the Jews still there.
Shot them all in the concentration camps.
Freed them and asked them to not say anything.
Death Marches deeper into their own territory.
38
What was D-Day?
Destruction Day when all camps were to kill all prisoners.
The day Germany surrendered.
Allied amphibious landing in Normandy.
The day Hitler and his closest associates killed themselves.
39
Which of the following was the first killing center?
Dresden
Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
Chelmno
40
Who, for the most part, ran Oskar Schindler’s business and brought in most of its workers?
Emilie Schindler
Sonia Schreiber Weitz
Amon Goeth
Itzhak Stern
41
What is Zionism?
The term for the Jewish council in the ghettos
The belief that Jews should have their own nation
The attempt to force all Jews to emigrate
The belief that Jews are a distinct race
42
The US did not address Germany’s violations of the Treaty of Versailles due to a policy of
Isolationism
Conscription
Containment
Interference
43
Which of the following were considered forms of resistance?
Secretly teaching Jewish history and religious teachings
Smuggling food into a ghetto or concentration camp
Hiding a Torah.
All of these choices
44
Why were Jews overrepresented in some professions?
They only wanted to work with other Jews.
They were barred from other professions.
They were uneducated.
They were better at math than other people.
45
Why did the Nazis set up Jewish councils (Judenrat) in the ghettos?
Keep the Jewish people compliant.
All of these choices
Administer daily life in the ghettos
Distribute resources
46
How could gypsies be considered more “Aryan” than some Nordic Germans?
They originated in India.
They spoke the Aryan language.
They were more likely to be blonde.
More gypsies had blue eyes.
47
The criteria for an individual to be named “righteous among the nations” by Yad Vashem
Non-Jewish people who saved Jews in exchange for money.
Jews who risked their lives to save their fellow Jews.
All of these choices.
Non-Jewish people who saved Jews without any personal gain.
48
Why was Poland a target for the Nazis?
It was a gateway to the East
There were no Jews there.
It was Hitler’s homeland
It was seen as the greatest challenge
49
Which country’s army liberated Sonia Schreiber Weitz and all the prisoners at Mauthausen?
Germany
United States of America
Russia
Australia
50
Who was the commandant of the Plaszow labor camp?
Itzhak Stern
Herman Goring
Oskar Schindler
Amon Goeth
51
When were the peak years of killing for the Germans?
1944-1945
1939-1940
1940-1941
1942-1943
52
Why is the term antisemitism misleading?
None of the above
Only a few Jews were Semites
Antisemitism refers to all minorities in a country
“Semite” does not mean “Jew”
53
As Hitler expanded beyond Germany’s borders, how did success play a part in his strategy?
Hitler began to question his antisemitic beliefs.
The anxiety of the German people decreased.
The German people became increasingly opposed to war.
He began to fear that he would be unable to defeat France.
54
Sonia Schreiber Weitz and the Schindler Jews were all forced into a ghetto in what city?
Krakow
Auschwitz
Berlin
Dresden
55
Passenger ship of Jews that was turned away by Cuba and the United States
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Indianapolis
56
The composer who influenced Hitler with large cast depictions of German myths was
Wagner
Himmler
Goering
Goeth
57
What was the name for the invasion of the Soviet Union?
Operation Anaconda
Operation Barbarossa
Operation D-Day
Operation Sea Lion
58
What was “Kaiser’s Coffee?”
All of these choices.
A rich Colombian dark roast coffee.
Earl Grey Tea
Van filled with poisonous gas used to kill Jews.
59
The Austrian people responded to the German invasion by
Leaving the country.
Begging other countries to help them in repelling Germany.
Mobilizing their army for all-out war.
Welcoming the Germans.
60
What was the pesticide most associated with gassing Jews called?
Dihydrogen monoxide
Zyklon B
Hydrogen Dioxide
Raid
61
What was Blitzkrieg?
Hitler’s book about his plans for world domination.
Slow and methodical fighting.
War at lightning speed.
The French response to Germany.
62
How many members of Sonia Schreiber Weitz’s family survived the Holocaust, including her?
Two
None
One
Ten
63
After the war ended where did the Bielski brothers live for most of the rest of their lives?
All of these choices
Soviet Union
United States of America
Poland
64
The term that Hitler used to describe his idea of a perfect race was
Aryan
Nordic
German
Slavic
65
What did the Arrow Cross government do in Budapest?
Joined the Allies in fighting the Nazis.
Killed 20,000 Jews and dumped them in the Danube River.
Killed the Jews and destroyed the evidence in crematoria.
Freed the Jews in the remaining camps.
66
Why was the German public indifferent to the ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses?
They were nomadic.
They posed a serious threat to national security.
They were already a marginalized group.
They were Jews.
67
Who was Adolf Eichmann?
Organized the transportation of Jews to concentration camps.
Head of the Luftwaffe.
Commandant of Auschwitz
Leader of the anti-Nazi German military coup.
68
Which of the three Tripartite Pact countries surrendered first?
Italy
None of these choices
Japan
Germany
69
Which of the following is true of the Nuremberg Trials?
No one was convicted due to a lack of evidence.
They were solely done by the Americans.
None of these choices.
All the Nazi leaders tried were found guilty of war crimes.
70
President of Germany who named Hitler Chancellor
Amon Goeth
Paul von Hindenburg
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Goebbels
71
Approximately how many people were in the Bielski brothers group?
1,200
1,500,000
12
250,000
72
Who was Albert Speer?
Commandant of Auschwitz
Businessman who saved many Jewish people from the Holocaust.
Hitler’s favorite architect and confidante.
Nazi war criminal executed for his crimes.
73
Germany made the Pact of Steel with
Italy
France
Austria
Russia
74
Why did the Nazis dig up the bodies of early Jewish victims of the Holocaust?
To destroy the evidence of their crimes.
To rebury them more honorably
They realized they had made a mistake.
None of these choices
75
During World War I Adolf Hitler
Served with distinction as a tank commander.
Was killed in combat
Delivered messages to the front.
Did not serve in the military.
76
What role did Pope Pius XII play in helping the Poles?
He did nothing.
He implored other nations to intervene militarily.
He publicly rebuked the Nazis.
He gave material aid to the Nazis.
77
The Sudetenland belonged to what country in 1938?
Poland
Czechoslovakia
France
Austria
78
Antisemitism is the belief that
Jews are inferior and worthless.
Minorities are inferior and worthless.
Minorities should have equal rights.
Jews should have their own homeland.
79
Which of the following were in the Bielski brothers camps?
All of these choices
Crematoria for the Jews.
Repair shops for the group’s weapons
Mass graves for the millions executed there.
80
What was the Night of Long Knives?
When Hitler purged Nazi leadership.
When the Nazis attacked Jewish homes and synagogues
The first assassination attempt made on Hitler.
When Hitler stabbed all of his inner circle.
81
Where was Sonia Schreiber Weitz from?
Austria
Poland
Germany
Russia
82
Which of the following countries was NOT conquered by Nazi Germany?
Denmark
France
Belgium
Britain
83
Head of the SS, and “architect of genocide.”
Hindenburg
Mussolini
Goeth
Himmler
84
Vichy, France is a symbol of ___________ with the Nazis
All of these choices
Collaboration
Resistance
Appeasement
85
The “Brown Shirts,” who acted as the terror wing of the Nazi party.
Stormtroopers
Blitzkriegers
Lightning Troops
Rangers
86
What was the purpose of female SS units?
Have sex with male soldiers.
Housekeeping duties.
Communication duties.
All of these choices.
87
The Treaty of Versailles is significant because
It was an important factor in the rise of Hitler.
It is seen as a precondition of World War II
It ended World War I
All of these choices.
88
Approximately how many Jews were saved by Oskar Schindler?
5,000
500
10,000
1,100
89
Appeasement is the policy of
Giving into an aggressor’s demand to preserve peace.
Disregarding a treaty that is unfair.
Appealing to the League of Nations for help.
Holding a plebiscite to show public opinion.
90
The intellectual resistance group founded by a professor & students at the University of Munich
White Rose
Red Rose
Yellow Tulip
Bielski Partisans
91
Why were people with handicaps targeted by the Nazis?
Scientific arguments said that they were not fit to survive.
They were seen as a threat to the Nazis.
They were viewed as being cursed by God.
They were seen as being connected to Judaism.
92
What does Gleichschaltung mean?
Coordination
Coercion
Cooperation
Companion
93
Triumph of the Will was
A book about Winston Churchill
Hitler’s autobiography
A propaganda film
Hitler’s biography
94
Why were the Yugoslavs able to resist the Germans fairly well?
They took advantage of their rugged home terrain.
Tito’s ruthless, but effective leadership.
All of these choices.
Great Britain gave them aid, especially intelligence.
95
Which of the following is true of the Displaced Persons Camps?
They saw a baby boom among the Jewish population.
They were a hotbed of Zionist activities.
Jews were eventually separated into their own camps.
All of these choices.
96
In 1941 what types of art did Hitler choose to save?
Indian and Aryan
Greek and Roman
Impressionist and Neo-Modern
Polish and French
97
Why did the Hitler-Stalin Pact work for Hitler?
All of these choices.
Gave Hitler 2 years to prepare for war with the Soviet Union
It enabled him to focus on and quickly defeat Poland in 1939
Allowed German forces to concentrate on the West in 1940.
98
What is the “unequal victim” theory?
Jews were treated unequally based on their gender
Gentiles & Jews were attacked in different ways and extents
French citizens were treated different than Polish citizens
Jews were treated differently based on their national origin
99
What were the two phases of Hitler’s rule from 1933-1937?
Antisemitism and Communism
Divide and conquer
Lebensraum and liberation
Revolution and routine
100
What happened in the immediate aftermath of the liberation of the concentration camps?
Jews emigrated to other countries.
The survivors returned to their homes.
People continues to die from illnesses and starvation.
All of these choices.

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Questions 100

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1
German participation in this war gave it an opportunity to try out new military equipment.
Franco-Prussian War
American Civil War
French Civil War
Spanish Civil War
2
Who joined Hitler in committing suicide on April 30, 1945?
All of the top Nazi officials
No one.
None of these choices.
Eva Braun and Goebbels and his wife.
3
Where did the Nazis expect to have the hardest time and why?
Western Europe because they were seen as their near equals.
Africa because of the distance from home & harsh environment
Russia because of the harsh weather.
Eastern Europe because they were seen as their near equals.
4
Which of the following were all goals the Judenrat set for themselves?
Maintain productivity
All of these choices
Maintain order
Mediate with the Germans
5
What was Oskar Schindler awarded?
Pulitzer Prize
Yad Vashem’s “Righteous Among the Nations”
Nobel Peace Prize
Pulitzer Prize
6
Norway reacted to Germany’s invasion by
Fighting until they were betrayed by a fascist leader
Fighting to the end of the war.
Surrendering without a fight.
Norway was never invaded.
7
Who were the Sonderkommando?
Jewish resistance groups.
Jews who worked in death camps and disposed of bodies.
Elite Nazi soldiers who acted as special forces.
Nazis who worked in death camps and disposed of bodies.
8
Member of Hitler’s inner circle who established the Gestapo and was Chief of the Luftwaffe.
Joseph Mengele
Hermann Goring
Paul von Hindenburg
Adolf Eichmann
9
What was the typical response by Nazis when Jewish partisans killed German soldiers?
Reprisals against the civilian population
None of these choices
Retreat
Focus on retaliating against the partisans.
10
What was the final German military effort against the Allies?
D-Day
The Battle of Berlin
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of Stalingrad
11
Who was Elie Weisel?
All of these choices.
A survivor of Buchenwald, he was there when it was liberated
The best known survivor of the Holocaust from Hungary.
Author of Night, his personal account of the Holocaust.
12
Who were the Bielski brothers?
Nazis who profited from slave labor.
Survivors of five concentration camps.
Leaders of a Jewish partisan resistance movement.
Leaders of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
13
Who was the first member of Sonia Schreiber Weitz’s immediate family to be killed?
Her father
Her brother
All of these choices
Her mother
14
The night of Nov. 9, 1938 when many synagogues were destroyed became known as Kristallnacht, or
Night of Broken Dreams
Night of Terror
Night of Broken Glass
Night of the Long Knives
15
Which of the following badges were used in the concentration camps?
Rainbow Triangle for homosexuals, and Red for Communists
Pink Triangle for homosexuals, and Red for Communists
Rainbow Triangle for homosexuals, and Pink for Communists
Pink Triangle for homosexuals, and Blue for Communists
16
The first concentration camp was
Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
Chelmo
Dachau
17
When asked “Why didn’t the Jews resist?” Elie Weisel wanted to ask instead…
“Why should they (the Jews) have fought”
“Why they had to fight”
“How so many of them did (fight)”
“How could they have resisted”
18
This country was divided in half by the pact between Hitler and Stalin.
United States of America
Belarus
Poland
France
19
The Nazi head of propaganda who committed suicide with Hitler
Goebbels
Schindler
Wagner
Goeth
20
Which of these statements is true?
Some Americans were Nazis.
All Germans were Nazis.
All Nazis were Germans.
None of the above.
21
The term reparations refers to
Giving up a country’s military.
Paying for damage due to war.
Joining an international group of nations.
Killing civilians in response to partisans killing soldiers.
22
How did Britain and France respond to the attack on Poland?
Declared war on Germany, and brought the fight to Berlin.
Began bombing Germany.
They did not realize it happened.
Declared war on Germany, but did not intervene.
23
What kind of books were burned by Goebbels?
Communist authors
Jewish authors
Liberal authors
All of these choices
24
The term for applying the theory of “survival of the fittest” to groups of people is
Pan-Germanism
Intentionalism
Social Darwinism
Antisemitism
25
Germany’s democratic government from the end of World War I to 1933
Nazi Dictatorship
Weimar Republic
Ottoman Empire
German Democracy
26
Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche’s book argued that:
It was unfair to blame Germany for the First World War.
Germany should sterilize all people that were unfit for life
Person’s worth is measured in contribution to the nation
The Jewish people caused Germany to lose the First World War
27
Program that brought approximately 10,000 Jewish children from German controlled territory was
Blitzkrieg
Kindertransport
Appeasement
Sonderkommando
28
Why was Oskar Schindler arrested by the Nazis?
Killing Jews
Manufacturing faulty munitions
Kissing a Jewish woman
Killing Nazis
29
Who were kapos?
Jewish partisans.
Nazi guards in the concentration camps.
Prisoners appointed to oversee other prisoners.
Nazi camp commandants.
30
How did Oskar Schindler justify to the Nazis his keeping children as workers?
Their small fingers could clean inside the shell casings
In order to save their lives
He liked having short people around
None of these choices
31
What event in January 1942 sped up Germany’s mass murders?
Battle of Stalingrad
Yalta Conference
Wannsee Conference
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
32
Why did Oskar Schindler flee at the end of the war?
He was a munitions manufacturer
He had run a concentration camp
All of these choices
He had profited from slave labor
33
Did Hitler have a Jewish heritage?
Yes
No
34
Increased attention was paid to homosexuals in Germany in the 1920s because
Berlin had become a social hotspot for homosexuals.
All of these choices.
Germans believed homosexuals were the reason they lost WWI
Many Germans believed homosexuality was related to Judaism
35
Which group was NOT targeted by the Nazis?
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Gypsies
Austrians
Communists
36
Before World War II began what was German public opinion about another war?
All of these choices
Unanimous enthusiasm
Complete indifference
Unease and lacking enthusiasm
37
As the Allies closed in what tactic did the Nazis use to get rid of more Jews?
Set the camps on fire with all of the Jews still there.
Shot them all in the concentration camps.
Freed them and asked them to not say anything.
Death Marches deeper into their own territory.
38
What was D-Day?
Destruction Day when all camps were to kill all prisoners.
The day Germany surrendered.
Allied amphibious landing in Normandy.
The day Hitler and his closest associates killed themselves.
39
Which of the following was the first killing center?
Dresden
Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
Chelmno
40
Who, for the most part, ran Oskar Schindler’s business and brought in most of its workers?
Emilie Schindler
Sonia Schreiber Weitz
Amon Goeth
Itzhak Stern
41
What is Zionism?
The term for the Jewish council in the ghettos
The belief that Jews should have their own nation
The attempt to force all Jews to emigrate
The belief that Jews are a distinct race
42
The US did not address Germany’s violations of the Treaty of Versailles due to a policy of
Isolationism
Conscription
Containment
Interference
43
Which of the following were considered forms of resistance?
Secretly teaching Jewish history and religious teachings
Smuggling food into a ghetto or concentration camp
Hiding a Torah.
All of these choices
44
Why were Jews overrepresented in some professions?
They only wanted to work with other Jews.
They were barred from other professions.
They were uneducated.
They were better at math than other people.
45
Why did the Nazis set up Jewish councils (Judenrat) in the ghettos?
Keep the Jewish people compliant.
All of these choices
Administer daily life in the ghettos
Distribute resources
46
How could gypsies be considered more “Aryan” than some Nordic Germans?
They originated in India.
They spoke the Aryan language.
They were more likely to be blonde.
More gypsies had blue eyes.
47
The criteria for an individual to be named “righteous among the nations” by Yad Vashem
Non-Jewish people who saved Jews in exchange for money.
Jews who risked their lives to save their fellow Jews.
All of these choices.
Non-Jewish people who saved Jews without any personal gain.
48
Why was Poland a target for the Nazis?
It was a gateway to the East
There were no Jews there.
It was Hitler’s homeland
It was seen as the greatest challenge
49
Which country’s army liberated Sonia Schreiber Weitz and all the prisoners at Mauthausen?
Germany
United States of America
Russia
Australia
50
Who was the commandant of the Plaszow labor camp?
Itzhak Stern
Herman Goring
Oskar Schindler
Amon Goeth
51
When were the peak years of killing for the Germans?
1944-1945
1939-1940
1940-1941
1942-1943
52
Why is the term antisemitism misleading?
None of the above
Only a few Jews were Semites
Antisemitism refers to all minorities in a country
“Semite” does not mean “Jew”
53
As Hitler expanded beyond Germany’s borders, how did success play a part in his strategy?
Hitler began to question his antisemitic beliefs.
The anxiety of the German people decreased.
The German people became increasingly opposed to war.
He began to fear that he would be unable to defeat France.
54
Sonia Schreiber Weitz and the Schindler Jews were all forced into a ghetto in what city?
Krakow
Auschwitz
Berlin
Dresden
55
Passenger ship of Jews that was turned away by Cuba and the United States
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Indianapolis
56
The composer who influenced Hitler with large cast depictions of German myths was
Wagner
Himmler
Goering
Goeth
57
What was the name for the invasion of the Soviet Union?
Operation Anaconda
Operation Barbarossa
Operation D-Day
Operation Sea Lion
58
What was “Kaiser’s Coffee?”
All of these choices.
A rich Colombian dark roast coffee.
Earl Grey Tea
Van filled with poisonous gas used to kill Jews.
59
The Austrian people responded to the German invasion by
Leaving the country.
Begging other countries to help them in repelling Germany.
Mobilizing their army for all-out war.
Welcoming the Germans.
60
What was the pesticide most associated with gassing Jews called?
Dihydrogen monoxide
Zyklon B
Hydrogen Dioxide
Raid
61
What was Blitzkrieg?
Hitler’s book about his plans for world domination.
Slow and methodical fighting.
War at lightning speed.
The French response to Germany.
62
How many members of Sonia Schreiber Weitz’s family survived the Holocaust, including her?
Two
None
One
Ten
63
After the war ended where did the Bielski brothers live for most of the rest of their lives?
All of these choices
Soviet Union
United States of America
Poland
64
The term that Hitler used to describe his idea of a perfect race was
Aryan
Nordic
German
Slavic
65
What did the Arrow Cross government do in Budapest?
Joined the Allies in fighting the Nazis.
Killed 20,000 Jews and dumped them in the Danube River.
Killed the Jews and destroyed the evidence in crematoria.
Freed the Jews in the remaining camps.
66
Why was the German public indifferent to the ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses?
They were nomadic.
They posed a serious threat to national security.
They were already a marginalized group.
They were Jews.
67
Who was Adolf Eichmann?
Organized the transportation of Jews to concentration camps.
Head of the Luftwaffe.
Commandant of Auschwitz
Leader of the anti-Nazi German military coup.
68
Which of the three Tripartite Pact countries surrendered first?
Italy
None of these choices
Japan
Germany
69
Which of the following is true of the Nuremberg Trials?
No one was convicted due to a lack of evidence.
They were solely done by the Americans.
None of these choices.
All the Nazi leaders tried were found guilty of war crimes.
70
President of Germany who named Hitler Chancellor
Amon Goeth
Paul von Hindenburg
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Goebbels
71
Approximately how many people were in the Bielski brothers group?
1,200
1,500,000
12
250,000
72
Who was Albert Speer?
Commandant of Auschwitz
Businessman who saved many Jewish people from the Holocaust.
Hitler’s favorite architect and confidante.
Nazi war criminal executed for his crimes.
73
Germany made the Pact of Steel with
Italy
France
Austria
Russia
74
Why did the Nazis dig up the bodies of early Jewish victims of the Holocaust?
To destroy the evidence of their crimes.
To rebury them more honorably
They realized they had made a mistake.
None of these choices
75
During World War I Adolf Hitler
Served with distinction as a tank commander.
Was killed in combat
Delivered messages to the front.
Did not serve in the military.
76
What role did Pope Pius XII play in helping the Poles?
He did nothing.
He implored other nations to intervene militarily.
He publicly rebuked the Nazis.
He gave material aid to the Nazis.
77
The Sudetenland belonged to what country in 1938?
Poland
Czechoslovakia
France
Austria
78
Antisemitism is the belief that
Jews are inferior and worthless.
Minorities are inferior and worthless.
Minorities should have equal rights.
Jews should have their own homeland.
79
Which of the following were in the Bielski brothers camps?
All of these choices
Crematoria for the Jews.
Repair shops for the group’s weapons
Mass graves for the millions executed there.
80
What was the Night of Long Knives?
When Hitler purged Nazi leadership.
When the Nazis attacked Jewish homes and synagogues
The first assassination attempt made on Hitler.
When Hitler stabbed all of his inner circle.
81
Where was Sonia Schreiber Weitz from?
Austria
Poland
Germany
Russia
82
Which of the following countries was NOT conquered by Nazi Germany?
Denmark
France
Belgium
Britain
83
Head of the SS, and “architect of genocide.”
Hindenburg
Mussolini
Goeth
Himmler
84
Vichy, France is a symbol of ___________ with the Nazis
All of these choices
Collaboration
Resistance
Appeasement
85
The “Brown Shirts,” who acted as the terror wing of the Nazi party.
Stormtroopers
Blitzkriegers
Lightning Troops
Rangers
86
What was the purpose of female SS units?
Have sex with male soldiers.
Housekeeping duties.
Communication duties.
All of these choices.
87
The Treaty of Versailles is significant because
It was an important factor in the rise of Hitler.
It is seen as a precondition of World War II
It ended World War I
All of these choices.
88
Approximately how many Jews were saved by Oskar Schindler?
5,000
500
10,000
1,100
89
Appeasement is the policy of
Giving into an aggressor’s demand to preserve peace.
Disregarding a treaty that is unfair.
Appealing to the League of Nations for help.
Holding a plebiscite to show public opinion.
90
The intellectual resistance group founded by a professor & students at the University of Munich
White Rose
Red Rose
Yellow Tulip
Bielski Partisans
91
Why were people with handicaps targeted by the Nazis?
Scientific arguments said that they were not fit to survive.
They were seen as a threat to the Nazis.
They were viewed as being cursed by God.
They were seen as being connected to Judaism.
92
What does Gleichschaltung mean?
Coordination
Coercion
Cooperation
Companion
93
Triumph of the Will was
A book about Winston Churchill
Hitler’s autobiography
A propaganda film
Hitler’s biography
94
Why were the Yugoslavs able to resist the Germans fairly well?
They took advantage of their rugged home terrain.
Tito’s ruthless, but effective leadership.
All of these choices.
Great Britain gave them aid, especially intelligence.
95
Which of the following is true of the Displaced Persons Camps?
They saw a baby boom among the Jewish population.
They were a hotbed of Zionist activities.
Jews were eventually separated into their own camps.
All of these choices.
96
In 1941 what types of art did Hitler choose to save?
Indian and Aryan
Greek and Roman
Impressionist and Neo-Modern
Polish and French
97
Why did the Hitler-Stalin Pact work for Hitler?
All of these choices.
Gave Hitler 2 years to prepare for war with the Soviet Union
It enabled him to focus on and quickly defeat Poland in 1939
Allowed German forces to concentrate on the West in 1940.
98
What is the “unequal victim” theory?
Jews were treated unequally based on their gender
Gentiles & Jews were attacked in different ways and extents
French citizens were treated different than Polish citizens
Jews were treated differently based on their national origin
99
What were the two phases of Hitler’s rule from 1933-1937?
Antisemitism and Communism
Divide and conquer
Lebensraum and liberation
Revolution and routine
100
What happened in the immediate aftermath of the liberation of the concentration camps?
Jews emigrated to other countries.
The survivors returned to their homes.
People continues to die from illnesses and starvation.
All of these choices.