HOLOCAUST HISTORY RESEARCH QUESTIONS

 

Answer the following questions in detail and in sentence and paragraph form. Back up your answers with details from your research.  Use a separate piece of paper or type your answers.

 

Go to the Holocaust Memorial Museum at http://www.ushmm.org/topics  and answer the following questions: You may also use encyclopedias and your social studies book.

 

  1.  Click on Holocaust. When did the Holocaust take place? (beginning date and ending date). Go back to main topics page.
  2. Click on pogroms. Click on Kristallnact. What was Kristallnacht?  When and why did it occur? Go back to main topics page.
  3. Click on anti-Semitism. What does the term anti-Semitism mean?
  4. What are pogroms?
  5. Click on anti-Jewish propaganda. Name two forms of propaganda that Hitler used and tell how they were effective. Go back to the main topics page.
  6. Click on the term “final solution.” What does the term final solution mean?
  7. How many Jews lost their lives?  Go back to the main topics page.
  8. Click on WWII. How did Germany start WWII?
  9. Who were the three Allied leaders?
  10. Who were the three Axis powers (countries)? Go back to the main topics page.
  11. Click on Ghettos. What were ghettos, and why were they established?

 

VOCABULARY

On a separate sheet of paper define the words COMPLETELY below using these two web sites:

     

http://remember.org/educate/vocabulary.html

     

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/ppgvKVLcMVIuG.asp?c=&b=394665

 

 

  1. Holocaust
  2. Aryan Race
  3. Resistance
  4. Genocide
  5. Nuremberg Laws
  6. Ghetto
  7. S.S.
  8. Auschwitz
  9. Final Solution
  10. (your choice-pick a word you have not yet defined)