While in prison hitler wrote the first volume of mein kampf

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Question 1

The medieval idea that Christians took the place of Jews as God's chosen people is known as the:

Aryan supremacy myth

Crusader ideal

Supersession Myth

Christian inheritance myth

Question 2

A preconceived negative & unfavorable opinion formed against 'another' person or group, based on a stereotype, & held in disregard of the facts; suspicion, intolerance, or irrational hatred of other races, creeds, religions, ethnic groups, homosexuals, the poor, immigrants, etc.

Preference

Prejudice

Scapegoat

Question 3

Jews are not a race, as stated by the Nazis, but people who adhered to ______, a system of laws, religion and culture of the Jews; with its concept of ethical/moral conduct monotheism, had a major influence on Christianity, Islam, and Western civilization Paganism

Judaism

Buddhism

Question 4

In Latin Christendom, resentment and hatred was focused on the stereotype of the Jew possessed by the Devil, having tails and horns, and symbol of Satan, because Christians saw Jews as murderers of Christ, using Christian children's blood for religious ceremonies, and poisoning wells; this imagery of the Jew as Satan/the Devil, derives at first from

Christian antisemitism in the Middle Ages

Modern political antisemitism in the 19th century

Himmler's diary

Question 5

Because Jews refused to change their ways and convert during the Middle Ages, non-Jews wondered what they should do about them. "What should we do about this Jewish minority among us?" became:

The "Jewish Question"

The "Minority Question"

The "Antisemitic Question"

Question 6

A town areas where Jews were segregated in the 16th century

The Jewish Quarter

The Jewish area

Question 7

In his booklet Of the Jews and Their Lies, __________ proposed to set on fire synagogues

Calvin

Luther

Hitler

Question 8

From the end of the 18th c. & 19th c., and following the French Revolution and conquests

Jews achieved emancipation - legal equality in most European lands

Jews left the ghetto & became successful entrepreneurs, bankers, lawyers

a & b

Question 9

Modern antisemitism has the following contributing factors

The 19th c. exclusive romantic movement emphasizing an exclusive nationalism

Racial nationalism, & the class antagonism deriving from modern capitalism

a & b

Question 10

In France, in 1886, Edouard Drumont published one of the best-sellers of the 2nd half of the 19th c., Jewish France, which argued that the Jews had gained control of France, blamed the Jews for capitalism, attributed all the nation's misfortunes to the Jews, & accused them of deicide.

In 1894, this Jewish officer in the French army was falsely accused of treason

Alfred Dreyfus

The Baron of Rothschild

Theodor Herzl

Question 11

In Poland, around the middle of the 18th c., in the context of the Haidamak riots -attacks of Ukrainian peasants against Jews, and dozens of blood libels, a new mystical movement with joyful worship, arose within Judaism, founded by Israel Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht)

Hassidism

the joyful movement

the mystical movement

Question 12

Austrian Jewish journalist, who, horrified by the antisemitism he witnessed in Paris during the 1894 trial of a French Jewish officer, founded Zionism - Jewish national movement, for a return to Zion, symbolic name to the historic homeland of the Jews

Barak

Herzl

Dreyfus

Question 13

In the 19th c., the German Romantic 'Volkish' movement excluded the Jews as strangers and second-class citizens, because

It evoked the image of a mythical golden past, with a supposed superiority

It produced an idealization of the Middle Ages with Christian knights

a & b

Question 14

The belief that race in the 19th c., accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others; discrimination or prejudice based on race.

ethnocentrism

racism

antisemitism

Question 15

German composer (1813-83) who fueled racial difference theory; expressed a German nationalistic terminology called volkisch (people-integral nation), in racist terms

Richard Wagner

Chopin

Strauss

Question 16

Racialist volkish thinkers claimed that the German race was purer than, and therefore superior to, all other races, that

Intermarriage between races was contamination

Jews were international conspirators plotting to dominate the world

a & b

Question 17

In the 19th c., a traditional, biased Christian perception of Jews and Judaism was supplemented by national-racial considerations. In mid-19th c., this Frenchman, Arthur de Gobineau, published Essay on the Inequality of Human Races; this author saw in what he called the 'Aryan' race -blond, tall, blue-eyed, a cultural people ___________ to the others

superior

inferior

equal

Question 18

Modern German antisemitism was based on

religion

nationalism, racism, & false racial theories

racism

a and c

Question 19

Whereas Christian anti-Judaism believed that through conversion, Jews could escape the curse of their religion, racial antisemites said that

Jews were indelibly stained & condemned

Because they are guilty of deicide

By their genes: their evil derived from inherited racial characteristics

a and b

Question 20

Antisemitism: 'modern,' 'scientific' term for Jew-hatred & anti-Jewish movement and ideology, in a secular society; (calling Jews a physically and mentally inferior group); this term was first coined & used by this German racial thinker____, in 1879

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Marr

Alfred Dreyfus

Question 21

German land, in the end of the 19th century, saw the rise of political anti-Semitism (using Jews as scapegoat for political & economic problems in order to gain political power); the radical right in political parties

Saw Jew-hatred as a popular formula for mobilizing all social classes

Manufactured the myth of the wicked Jew

a & b

Question 22

In the 1920s, the Nazis exploited this book, ____________________, a notorious forgery and a myth about a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, to justify persecution of the Jews.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Jewish France

The Jewish Conspiracy

Question 23

This famous forgery about an international Jewish plot to rule the world, was introduced to the US by

Franklin Roosevelt

Henry Ford

Harry Truman

Question 24

On June 28, 1919, the ____ signed with Germany, ended WWI - the Great War, & had profound & far-reaching impact on the infant German republic that had to pay heavy reparations.

Treaty of Berlin

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty of verdun

Question 25

The Germans hated the 1919 Treaty ending World War I, because of article 231:

The 'Proud Clause' proclaiming the victory of the Allies

The 'War Guilt Clause' blaming them for causing the war

The "War Reparations Clause"

Question 26

According to this treaty, Germany also lost her colonies and large portions of German territory: Alsace-Lorraine to France, and section of

Prussia to the new

Polish state

French state

Italian state

Question 27

After the Great War (World War I), Friedrich Ebert, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) proclaimed the establishment of a German democratic state known as ___________________; it was the first time democracy came to Germany; this government which preceded that of the Nazi party, lasted 14 years, 1919-1933.

The Weimar Republic, new government of the moderate Left.

The Kaiser Republic, new government of the extreme right

The Kaiser Republic, new government of the extreme left

Question 28

In 1919, Germany was a centralized democratic state ruled by a Reichstag (Parliament); the president appointed the leader of the majority party in the Reichstag as

Kaiser

Chancellor

Fuhrer

Question 29

General Ludendorff explained that the German army was defeated in 1918 by Democrats, Catholic Center party, Socialists and Jews, by an internal enemy; this ______ legend was used by Hitler and the Nazis to undermine the new German democratic government.

stab in the back

stab in the ankle

Jewish stab

Question 30

Major Ernst Rohm, typical Freikorps, became leader of the Nazi brown Storm Troops (Sturmabteilung - paramilitary armed formation of the right, composed of vigilantes war veterans, founded by Hitler to protect party gatherings) or the

NST

Question 31

After Hitler joined a small Volkisch party in 1919, the name of the party was changed to the National Socialist German Worker's party - the Nationalsozialisticsche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP - or

the Nazi party

the Deutsche party

the NDA party

Question 32

While in prison, Hitler wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf

My Struggle

My dream

My country

Question 33

Hitler's goal was to create a vast empire, based on racial nationalism, ruled by a master race

A 1000-year Reich

A 100-year empire

A 100-year Reich

Question 34

Hitler and the Nazis believed that: the Aryans, being a superior race, were meant by nature to rule over the rest of the earth, and are entitled to take others' land; Germany must find ___________ - living space -, for the superior German culture and people.

Lebensraum

Mein Kampf

Blitzkrieg

Question 35

_______would emerge out of a radical right-wing ultra nationalist politics; it was the totalitarian racist ideology and policies, espoused by Hitler and his National Socialist German Worker's Party's from 1920-45.

Nazism

Fascism

Consservatism

Question 36

New York stock Exchange collapsed in 1929; unemployment was high; the extremist parties were more attractive because of this worldwide economic crisis: _____

the Great Depression

the Great Inflation

The Great Economic Crisis

Question 37

Nazi propaganda tied the nonhuman _____ to 'internationalism,' and blamed them for all the evils of the world, democracy, inflation, unemployment, political instability and Communism, as well as Germany's defeat in the Great War.

Slavs

Jews

French

Question 38

The Nazi Party Platform and Nazi propaganda were

Anti-Versailles Treaty - attacked the 'November criminals,' against reparations

Anti-Bolshevik, anti-liberal, anti-democratic, racist and antisemitic

For idea of nationalism & volkisch ideology

All the above

Question 39

Nazi propaganda depicted Hitler as a savior sent by destiny, and promising

Economic recovery - putting an end to the hyperinflation

To regain Germany's 'proper place' - restoring Germany's strength & pride

a & b

Question 40

In 1932, the right-wing elites, industrial magnates, landed aristocrats, military establishment, & higher bureaucrats believed that Hitler would save Germany and their positions from a Communist takeover. On Jan. 30, 1933, President Hindenburg agreed to allow Hitler to become

President

Chancellor and create a new government

Kaiser.

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