Path to Nazi Genocide Worksheet: ANSWER KEY Short answer: Answer the following questions while you watch Path to Nazi Genocide. 1. List three ways in which World War I and the Treaty of Versailles led to political instability in Germany.
1) had to take sole blame for starting the war 2) territory shrunk 3) large reparations 4) Hitler took advantage of the German people’s anger and fear 5) postwar economic depression 2. In his book Mein Kampf [“My Struggle”], what goals does Hitler advocate for Germany?
Territorial expansion, a racially pure state, destruction of European Jews 3. How did Adolf Hitler become chancellor of Germany in 1933? How did he become the Führer and sole head of government in 1934?
Hitler was appointed as part of a compromise among politicians; the death of President Hindenburg 4. How did the 1935 Nuremberg laws affect German Jews?
Loss of citizenship, forbidden to marry non-Jews 5. Under Nazi racial ideology, what groups were considered racially inferior?
Jews, Slavs, blacks, Roma (gypsies); also those with physical and mental disabilities
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