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The Path to Genocide Viewing Questions

World War I
1. When was World War I?

2. What was an important advancement in the technology of killing?

Aftermath of World War I & the Rise of Nazism (1918-1933)

3. Which two factors would play an important role in the rise of Nazism and the coming of World
War II?

4. By what percent was Germany’s territory reduced after WWI?

5. What kind of government did Germany have after WWI?

6. What year did the world depression hit?

7. Why was Adolf Hitler imprisoned in 1923?

8. What were Hitler’s three goals?

9. In 1933, Hitler was offered which position in the German government?

10. Who was the Nazis’ first target?

Building a “National Community” (1933-1936)

11. After President Hindenburg’s death in 1934, to which position did Hitler appoint himself?

12. In 1935, how did Germany defy the Treaty of Versailles?

13. According to Nazi ideology, which groups were labeled as racially inferior?

From Citizens to Outcasts (1933-1938)

14. List a few places were Jewish people were excluded or segregated?

15. What was the goal of Nazi propaganda?

16. What was the Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)?

World War II and the Holocaust (1939-1945)

17. On September 1, 1939, which country did Germany invade?

18. What were ghettos?

19. How many Jewish men, women and children did the mobile killing squads murder?

20. How were Jews transported to the killing centers?

21. Upon reaching the concentration camps (killing centers), how were people separated?

22. What was used to kill people in the concentration camps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRcNq4OYTyE
or
http://www.ushmm.org/learn/introduction-to-the-holocaust/path-to-nazi-genocide

Key
1. 1914-18
2. poison gas
3. humiliating defeat of Germany, peace settlement of 1919
4. 13%
5. democratic
6. 1929
7. trying to overthrow the government
8. territorial expansion, racially pure state, elimination of European Jews
9. chancellor
10. political opponents
11. führer / leader of nation / head of government
12. reinstituted draft, increasing military strength
13. Jews, blacks, gypsies (Roma), Slavs, mentally / physically handicapped
14. schools, benches, doctors, stores
15. demonize Jews, see Jews as dangerous outsiders
16. Jewish shops & synagogues were vandalized and burned
17. Poland
18. enclosed neighborhoods for Jews
19. 2 million
20. cattle trains
21. forced labor or immediate death
22. poison gas