Global II Quizzes - Quiz 10b - The Holocaust
{ The trial described in this passage was most directly a response to which of the following? |type="[]"} +the Holocaust -dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -genocide in Rwanda -Armenian massacre
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- ...The German people were never more pitiable than when they stood by and watched this thing done.
- For the raiders who were let loose on the streets and given a day to sate [indulge] the lowest instincts of
- cruelty and revenge were indeed an enemy army. No foreign invader could have done more harm. This
- is Germany in the hour of her greatest defeat, the best overcome by the worst. While many protested at
- the outrages, and millions must have been sickened and shamed by the crimes committed in their name,
- many others looked on stolidly or approvingly while the hunters hunted and the wreckers worked.
- There are stories of mothers who took their children to see the fun ....
- - New York Times, November 12,1938
The events described in this passage most clearly show the influence of which of the following? |type="[]"} -fall of the Berlin wall -German reparation payments after World War I +the rise of Adolf Hitler -Soviet takeover of East Germany
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Who were the targets of the "hunters" described in this passage?
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-suspected communists
-Czechoslovakian citizens
-foreign troops occupying Germany
+German Jews
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Base your answer to questions 14 and 15 on the map below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Which is one major reason the Holocaust is considered a unique event in modern European history? |type="[]"} -Jews of Europe have seldom been victims of persecution. -Civilians rarely were killed during air raids on Great Britain. -Adolf Hitler concealed his anti-Jewish feelings until after he came to power. +The genocide was planned in great detail and required the cooperation of many people.
{ The groups targeted by Hitler in the Holocaust were |type="[]"} - Nazis, Communists, Catholics, Divorced Men + Jews, Communists, Jehovah Witness, Political Opponents, Gypsies, Homosexuals - Jews, Priests, Englishmen, Russians - Atheists, Women, Communists, Poles, Russians