Jewish History II Flashcards
(15 cards)
Evian Conference (1938)
A meeting of countries to discuss Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis; most countries refused to take them in.
Madagascar Plan
A Nazi idea to deport European Jews to Madagascar, which was never carried out.
General Government
The part of Nazi-occupied Poland where many ghettos and death camps were located.
Judenrat
Jewish councils forced by Nazis to help run ghettos and carry out German orders.
The Wannsee Conference (1942)
A meeting where Nazi leaders planned the “Final Solution” – the mass murder of Jews.
Auschwitz
The largest Nazi death camp, where over a million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
Emanuel Ringelblum
A Jewish historian who documented life in the Warsaw Ghetto and helped create an underground archive.
Raoul Wallenberg
A Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews by giving them protective passports.
David Ben-Gurion
A leader of the Zionist movement and Israel’s first Prime Minister after independence in 1948.
UN Partition Plan (1947)
A UN proposal to divide British Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states; Jews accepted, Arabs rejected.
Law of Return (1950)
An Israeli law giving any Jew the right to move to Israel and become a citizen.
Plan D (1948)
An Israeli military plan during the War of Independence to secure territory and defend Jewish areas; controversial because it led to the flight of many Palestinians.
The Altalena Affair (1948)
A violent clash between the Israeli government and a Jewish militia over weapons on a ship; showed early internal conflict.
Eichmann Trial (1961)
The trial of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi officer who helped plan the Holocaust; held in Israel and raised global awareness of Holocaust crimes.
Six-Day War (1967)
A quick war where Israel defeated Arab neighbors and captured land like the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai, and Golan Heights.
