Study Guide for Open Note quiz

  1. Who is the hero of The Trial by Kafka, and what is the adjective that comes from it?
  1. Which two figures became the “Jewish Patriarchs of the Modern World”?
  2. Which conservative Italian movement was started by a journalist and based on ideas from ancient Rome?
  3. What were shtetls, and what cultural innovations began in them?
  4. What was Zionism, and what prompted it?
  5. How did the “central threat” to Judaism arise in the GermanWeimarRepublic?
  6. Like Fascism, National Socialism was a right-wing party. What was attractive about it to Germans?
  7. What did Hitler do in 1933? What did he do after?
  8. How did the Nazis try to impose conformity?
  9. What was Josef Goebbels’ title, and what policy did he advocate?
  10. What distinction did the small town of Dachau have for the Nazi movement?
  11. Phase 1 of Nazi discrimination against Jews began in 1933. What did it involve?
  12. What were the 1935 Nuremberg decrees (phase 2)?
  13. What was phase 3 of the laws and declarations passed against Jews?
  14. Why was there little world interest in the Jewish plight at first?
  15. What was Kristallnacht and when did it take place?
  16. One place Jews could flee to in 1938 was Palestine. What was it like at that time?
  17. What were some countries that limited immigration by Jews in 1939?
  18. What was “Blitzkrieg” or “Lightning War”? What happened to European families during this time?
  19. What were the “ghettos” of the 1940s? How many Jews died each month in Warsaw?
  20. How many Jews were killed by the SS killing squads? How were they killed?
  21. In 1942, German leaders created a “bureaucratic process” to eradicate all Jews. What did it involve?
  22. What occupied country protected its Jewish citizens?
  23. What was the Allied response to the concentration camps, as late as 1944?
  24. Besides Jews, which other groups were murdered in camps?
  25. How did singling out one group lead the Nazis to a war “against individual life”? How many Jewish and non-Jewish civilians were killed by them during the war?
  26. The narrator says that the Nazis’ values were most dangerous of all: “A world in which doubt was forbidden, a world of absolute truths, a world of obsessive order and rigid conformity, a world without human diversity.” Could such a program of values be advanced in America today?