Use the link at the top to answer all the questions. Please write your answers on a separate piece of binder paper.
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The word Holocaust originates from what country?
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What does the word Holocaust mean?
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What did the Germans believe about the Jews?
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During the Holocaust Era who were some other groups that Germans targeted?
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What was the Jewish population in Europe on 1933?
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What was the “Final Solution”?
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What was the “Euthanasia program”?
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How many Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died from starvation?
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Click on the “concentration camp” link. How many concentration camps did the Germans establish?
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At the Auschwitz camp complex how many Jews could be gassed in one day?
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Click back to the main page. What is a ghetto?
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What does Einsatzgruppen mean?
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Click on the "killing centers" link. How many Jews were murdered in the killing centers?
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Where was the first killing center?
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Click back to the main page. What were "death marches"?
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What were DP camps?
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Between 1948 and 1951 how many Jews emigrated to Israel?
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When did the last DP camp finally close?
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Do you think if the U.S. had entered the war earlier that the Holocaust might have been prevented? Why or why not?
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Do a google search using the word genocide. Can you find any recent examples of genocide or ethnic cleansing? List one example and then explain why you think genocide still happens around the world.