REE 301 Exam #2 Questions With Correct Answers

EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 30, 2024 11:26 AM REE 301 Exam #2 Questions With Correct Answers What was Germany's New Racial Order? - answer✔✔Nazi Germany's goal of clearing the indigenous the indigenous inhabitant and enslaving them in order to settle in areas such as poland. Forcibly ethnic groups groups from area to another What does the "Final S olution" refer to? When did its implementation begin? - answer✔✔- The final solution was the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. Introduced by Heinrich Himmler and administered by Adolf Eichmann, resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews in Concentr ation Camps - 1941: The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union codenamed operation Barbarossa which commenced on 22 June 1941 set in motion a war of destruction which quickly opened the door to systematic mass murder of European Jews. ( jews started being kill ed off in mobile killing units) Why were concentration camps and extermination camps concentrated in the east? - answer✔✔A disproportionate amount of Jews were centered in the East, so the concentration/ extermination camps were set up neat the Jewish cent er. Specifically Poland contained a very high portion of Europe's Jews What country was Majdanek located? - answer✔✔Poland What country was Buchenwald located? - answer✔✔Germany What country was Auschwitz -Birkenau located? - answer✔✔Poland What country was Sobibor located? - answer✔✔Poland What country was Treblinka located? - answer✔✔Poland What country was Dachau located? - answer✔✔Germany What country was Belzec located? - answer✔✔Poland What was the Holocaust? Who was targeted and in what numbers? What was the ultimate effect on various populations of the region? - answer✔✔-The holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany systematically murdered six million European Jews, Ethic Pole, Slavs, Soviet Citizens, political opponents, gay men and Jehovah's Witness EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 30, 2024 11:26 AM -Jews (6 Million deaths) Soviets Civilians (7 million deaths), Soviet Prisoners of War( 3 million deaths), Non -Jewish Polish civilians (1.8 million deaths) Serb Civilians (312,000) People with Disabilities (250,000), Roma (200,0 00), Jehovah's Witnesses (1900), ascials ( repeat criminal offenders) (70,000), Homosexuals (100's - 1,000's) Explain the "they did it, not us" narrative that developed in Eastern Europe. - answer✔✔Many within Eastern Europe cooperated with the Nazis and we re directly and indirectly responsible for atrocities, yet after the war blamed the Germans completely, trying to paint themselves as helpless victims of the Nazis What impact did WWII have on Soviet Union, its army, and its population? - answer✔✔70% of industrial outpost was spent on the military during WWII leading to homelessness and starvation. In total, an estimate 7 million soviets died because of WWII Who was Heda Kovály? Provide 3 significant facts from her biography. - answer✔✔- Married rudolf Marg olius in 1939 - 1941: Deported to Lodz Ghetto in Poland along with 5,000 Prague Jews - Husband was made deputy minister in Czechoslovakia by the soviets was later hanged. How were Heda Kovály's experiences during WWII representative of the broader Jewish experience during WWII? - answer✔✔Heda Kovaly and Jews in general found that the local population under Nazi control aligned themselves with the Nazi goals because it benefited from the Jewish suffering. Even if they didn't help the Nazis, harboring jews w as too dangerous How did the experiences of those who lived through WWII impact their attitudes towards Communism? - answer✔✔Many who had lived through WWII viewed communism as an acceptable state of being because they had known authoritarianism for so lon g that the Soviets seemed to simple be better than the alternative, not recognizing that functional democracy as a viable alternative (also seen as saviors from the nazis) "The Soviets came in and forced communism on the countries of Eastern Europe." How w ould you respond to such a claim? - answer✔✔The soviets did not force communism on the countries of Eastern Europe but where instead seen as liberators from the Nazi oppression. The Book" under a cruel star" describes the occupants of Soviets controlled Cz echoslovakia as willingly adopting the socialist movement and actively participating in its construction without much if any resistance. Who was Rudolf Slánský? - answer✔✔- General secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist party - Slansky was one of 14 lead ers arrested in 1951 and put on show trail, was executed