Hitler

Question 1

Weimar Republic

VI-mar

Answer 1

Germany’s democratic government established because of the Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Question 2

The term for having a prejudice (hatred) against Jews

Answer 2

anti-Semitism

Question 3

How Hitler justified his attack on the Jews

Answer 3

The Jews were different, they caused the loss of WWI, and they caused the economic troubles of the 1920s &30s

Question 4

Lebensraum

Answer 4

Hitler’s policy to make “room to grow” for the German people by forcing the Jews to move

Question 5

Aryan Race

Answer 5

The race that Hitler considered to be superior. They would have blond hair, blue eyes, and tall.

Question 6

The groups that were targeted (attacked) by Hitler

Answer 6

Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Pole, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, the disabled, and the incurably ill (those that could not get better)

Question 7

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 7

Passed in 1935, these were laws that made it legal for people to discriminate Jews.

• Jews could not be German citizen
• Jews could not marry non-Jews
• Jews eventually lost the right to vote

Question 8

Kristallnacht

Answer 8

November 1938
An event when the Germans trashed and looted dozens of Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, homes, and synagogues.
30,000 German Jews were arrested for being Jewish

Question 9

Brown shirts

Answer 9

The secret police that worked for Hitler

Question 10

Stormtroopers

Answer 10

An army that served Hitler and helped him gain power through fear and force

Question 11

Mein Kampf

Answer 11

Meaning “My Struggle”
Hitler wrote this book to explain his plan to make Germany strong again
It includes his plan called the “Final Solution” to get rid of the Jews

Question 12

Final Solution

Answer 12

Hitler’s plan to get rid of the Jews and other groups that he thought were limiting Germany

Question 13

Social Darwinism

Answer 13

The idea that the strong survive and the weak will die. It is the natural course of life.

Question 14

Holocaust

Answer 14

The systematic killing the Jews and other discriminated groups through labor, starvation, and execution
6 million Jews died and 6 million from other groups

Question 15

Ghettos

Answer 15

Areas that were created to put the Jews. The housing was cramped, many families would live in one apartment.

Question 16

Concentration Camps

Answer 16

The camps that the Germans sent Jews and other hated groups to die due to labor, starvation, and executions

Question 17

Genocide

Answer 17

The systematic killing of a particular group of people