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Multiple Response
Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.
 

 1. 
Who hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics?
 a.
Israel
 c.
Germany
 b.
England
 d.
Nuremberg
 

 2. 
What did Hitler use the 1936 Olympics for?
 a.
to prove that African Americans were inferior
 c.
to show that Jews were not good athelets
 b.
to promote the Nazi party
 d.
to condem the Treaty of Versailles
 

 3. 
How did Owens' victory shatter the Nazi propaganda about Aryan supremacy?
 a.
proved that Jews could beat Germans in the 100 meter race
 c.
proved that Aryan’s could beat African Americans in the 100 meter race
 b.
proved that the Germans could be beaten by non-Aryans
 d.
proved that Nazi’s could not run
 

 4. 
What was the name of the movie that turned Hitler into a god for the German people?
 a.
Triumph of the Will
 c.
Gone with the Wind
 b.
Mein Kampf
 d.
The Wealth of a Nation
 

 5. 
In the late 1930s, the Nazi Party in Germany burned books. Why did they do this?
 a.
To promote books written by Germans
 c.
To help the sales of Mein Kampf
 b.
To promote freedom of the press
 d.
To remove Jewish influence from German culture
 

 6. 
Black people were to the Jim Crow laws as the Jews were to
 a.
the Nazi party
 c.
integration
 b.
the Nuremberg Laws
 d.
Germany
 

 7. 
World War II was not the first time anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in Europe
 a.
true
 b.
false
 

 8. 
Who was the British Prime Minister who appeased Hitler over Czechoslovakia. He waved a treaty and said, “this means peace in our time.”
 a.
Sir Jesse Owen
 c.
Neville Chamberlain
 b.
Rudolf Hess
 d.
Winston Churchill
 

 9. 
What did they call the event where the Nazi’s broke Jewish shop windows, burned synagogues
and persecuted the Jews.
 a.
night of the great purge
 c.
Kristallnacht
 b.
Mein Kampf
 d.
Deutschland Ubber Alas
 

 10. 
What was the St Louis?
 a.
a ship carrying Jews who wanted to emigrate to the United States
 c.
a ship carrying war materials to England
 b.
a ship carrying Jews who wanted to emigrate to England
 d.
a ship carrying Jews who wanted to emigrate to Germany
 

Matching
 
 
a.
Articulate
g.
Lectern
b.
Beleaguered
h.
Magnetic
c.
Blitzkrieg
i.
Sinister
d.
Citizenry
j.
Stronghold
e.
Ideology
k.
Subversive
f.
Insulate
l.
isolationism
 

 11. 

 Hitler often stood silently behind the _____ before speaking
 

 12. 

 The German _____ over-ran France in six weeks
 

 13. 

 England was a _____ and the only country in Europe that Hitler could not over-run
 

 14. 

 The radio enabled FDR to _____ his message to the American people
 

 15. 

 Americans thought that the Atlantic ocean would _____ them from the war in Europe
 

 16. 

 The _____ people of London held out during the German air raids
 

 17. 

 The attitude of most Americans toward the war in Europe was _____
 

 18. 

 Most of the _____ of Germany supported Hitler
 

 19. 

 The Nazi’s had a _____ plan to remove all of the Jews from Germany
 

 20. 

 Hitler accused the Jews of _____ activity in Germany during World War I
 

 21. 

 Aryan superiority was the _____ of the Nazi’s
 

 22. 

 Both Hitler and FDR had _____ personalities
 



 
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