Persecutions & Atrocities Quick Check
Which Nazi-era policy identified the need for greater living space for Germans in Europe as a goal of Aryan superiority?
lebensraum ✅
Kristallnacht
pogroms
the Nuremberg Laws
Which policy was supported by the Nuremberg Laws?
The Nuremberg Laws legalized the printing of Mein Kampf.
The Nuremberg Laws established the Hitler Youth.
The Nuremberg Laws created ghettos for Jewish people.
The Nuremberg Laws forbade intermarriage between Jews and Germans. ✅
Which statement best describes the role of scientific racism in Nazi persecution?
Scientific racism was common at the time but was not a factor in Nazi persecution or their policies.
Scientific racism was used to construct a theoretically superior Aryan race and to justify racism against other supposedly inferior races. ✅
Scientific racism proposed that the Aryans were an inferior race and the only way for Germans to advance was to destroy them.
Scientific racism combined Social Darwinism and eugenics to exclusively attack Jewish peoples.
Which of the following identifies atrocities committed by the Soviet Union that targeted Ukrainians?
Red Terror
attacks on Cossacks
Holodomor ✅
kulaks
Which statement correctly compares atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan during WWII?
Both the Nazis and Japanese used racial superiority as a justification for the imprisonment and extermination of groups of people. ✅
Both the Nazis and Japanese sought to exterminate Jews, Romani, and Poles.
Both the Nazis and Japanese used religion as justification for the imprisonment and torture of tens of thousands of people.
Both the Nazis and Japanese used biological warfare against civilian populations.
Which statement correctly compares the use of forced labor by the Nazis and the Japanese during WWII?
The Nazis used forced labor primarily in concentration camps, while the Japanese used forced labor in prisoner of war camps.
The Nazis used forced labor primarily within Germany, while the Japanese used forced labor in their occupied territories.
The Nazis used forced labor primarily for military projects, while the Japanese used forced labor for infrastructure projects.
The Nazis used forced labor to exploit and dehumanize individuals on a massive scale, while the Japanese used forced labor in a more targeted manner. ✅