3.1 Introduction to Eugenics and Social Darwinism

Question 1

Genocide

Answer 1

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group

Question 2

Eugenics

Answer 2

The science of improving the human population by controlling breeding for the purpose of furthering specific genetic qualities

Question 3

Prejudice

Answer 3

A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

the process of becoming similar to something

Question 5

Social-Darwinism

Answer 5

The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals

Question 6

Anti-semitism

Answer 6

hatred of Jewish People

Question 7

Evolution

Answer 7

The process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth

Question 8

Hereditary

Answer 8

To be passed down from one generation to the next

Question 9

Sterilisation

Answer 9

Surgery which makes it impossible to have children

Question 10

Persecution

Answer 10

ill treatment or hostility based on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or political beliefs