Final Flashcards

1
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Types of antisemitism and examples

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Religious “blood Libels and Christ killers”
Racial “Jewish blood is inferior”
Anti Zionist “bds movement (Ernst zundel)”
Holocaust Denial “holocaust denial books being published”

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2
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Protocols of the elders of Zion

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Book about Jewish conspiracy to take over the world

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3
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World War One (date and sides)

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1914-1918
Triple Entente: Britain USA Canada France Russia
Enemy: Germany

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4
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Treaty of Versailles

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Germany lost the war
Germans had to: 
1) Pay compensation to France. 
2) Lost Land. 
3) Reduce the size of its army and navy. 
This Led to poverty in Germany.
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5
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Consequence of the treaty of Versailles on the German economy

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Led to poverty, unemployment and inflation (they ran off money)
They blamed the Jews.

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Consequences of the treaty of Versailles on the German ideology.

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Germans created extremist political parties like communism and facism. They were fixated on war

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Great Depression (Date And Consequence on Germany)

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1929 stock market crashed

Germany became even more politically extreme and even more POOR

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8
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Adolf hitler is elected (date and details)

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  1. Hitler is elected in a democratic election. He became der führer and eliminated all other parties with the enabling act.
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9
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Initial laws that Hitler Implemented for Jews

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Expelled from civil services
Boycott Jewish business
No Jews in media
No dogs, no pools, no parks

LATER ON
kicked out of their homes and had to live in the ghetto and wear the yellow star.

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1000 year Reich

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The Nazi government claimed they’d rain for 1000 years

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11
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Public book burnings

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Anything written by or about Jews was burned

Kristallnacht 1938

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12
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Policy of appeasement

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In 1919 WW1 ended
North American countries became isolationist and didn’t want to have a European war
Many countries were happy so long as Germany didn’t attack them
They signed non aggression pacts with the Nazis.

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13
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Nuremberg laws (date and details)

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1935

1) stripped German Jews of citizenship
2) Jews can’t marry German non Jews
3) Jews cannot hire German women under 45 year old
4) punishable with prison sentence

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14
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Kristallnacht (date and details)

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The night of broken glass in November 1938
Jews were killed, shops were looted and Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Jews had to pay millions for damages

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Evian conference (date and goal)

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  1. Countries all grouped up to decide what to do with Jewish refugees that wanted to flee from Germany. Close to No one took Jews.
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16
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Judenrein

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Cleansed of jews. Germans wanted to eliminate all their Jews. They forced Jews to stay in Dachau

17
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Euthanasia program

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Before 1939 Nazis murdered Germans who were undesirable (handicapped or disabled)

18
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World War Two dates and Sides

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1939-1945
Allies - Canada USA Britain Russia (USSR) France
Axis- Germany Japan Italy

19
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What was the deal with Vichy France world war 2

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They corroborated with the Nazis

20
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Poland is attacked

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Germany instantly takes over Poland. It was called a Blitzkreig (lightning attack)

21
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Main causes of death in the ghetto

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Starvation and disease. 1/3 Jews died in the ghetto

22
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Smuggling in the ghetto

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Smuggling was very important. People had to fake accents and it mainly women as they didn’t have a circumcised penis.
Food medicine weapons information money

23
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Judenraat

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Jewish council in the ghetto

24
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Spiritual resistance in the ghetto

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Shuls in the ghetto
Orphanages school and theatre in the ghetto
Sukkot and Bar mitzvahs
Newspapers
Youth groups
25
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Physical resistance in the ghetto

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Jews smuggled guns into the ghetto and fought back

26
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Nazis attack USSR

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Nazis invaded USSR. Big mistake. Operation Barbossa.

They had already signed a non aggression pact. Russia is enormous and cold and Nazis had to split up the troops

27
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Einsatzgruppen

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Mobile killing units

Shot Jews. Made them remove valuables and dig graves

28
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Wannsee Conference (date and details)

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Wanted conference of 1942 was to decide upon the final solution for the Jews. It was devised by Adolf Eichman. They decided to kill all Jews.

29
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Concentration camps

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Dehumanizing and terrorized people.
Starved and forced labour
Re education and medical experiments.

30
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Medical experiments

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They would run dangerous medical experiments on Jews. Mainly twins. Doctor Mengele Was obsessed with twins.

31
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Death camps

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Zyklon B in gas chambers.

32
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Sonder Kommando

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Sonder kommando had to remove dead bodies from gaz chambers.

33
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Denmark and righteous gentiles

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Righteous gentiles - non Jews who saved Jews during the holocaust

Denmark - the entire country were righteous gentiles - King Christian