Holocaust Exam I Study Guide

• Describe the history of antisemitism in Europe in terms of common themes actions and ideas
  List and describe the major tactics (e.g. expulsions) commonly used throughout history to persecute Jews in Europe.

  List and describe the major anti-Semitic ideas (e.g. Jews are Christ-killers) that have recurred throughout history.

• Identify and discuss the major theories of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination including:
  Social inequalities
  Social identity (e.g. ingroup/outgroup)
  conformity
  frustration/aggression
  personality dynamics
  categorization
  just-world-hypthesis

• Explain the difference between democide, genocide, and ethnocide.

• Discuss Woolf and Hulsizers' basic concepts in relation to genocide.
  Identify the common cultural roots of genocide (e.g. history of aggression; history of devaluation of the "other").

  Discuss the role of authoritarianism to the genocide.

  Identify the common major destabilizing factors that may precede a genocide (e.g. economic crisis).

  Discuss the "magnitude gap" that exists between perpetrators and victims.

  Explain the four factors involved in the magnitude gap.

  Discuss the reasons why individuals join groups and the constructive/destructive factors associated with such group membership.

  Discuss the role of the elite in the perpetration of a genocide.

  Discuss the situational factors that play a role in the path towards genocide (e.g. loss of national pride and hedonic balancing).

  Discuss the ramifications of consolidation of government control in the path to genocide.

  Discuss moral exclusion and the parallel loss of rights.

  Discuss the role of impunity in a genocide.

  Discuss the role of bystanders in the prevention or escalation of a genocide.

  Relate any of the above concepts related to a psychosocial model of genocide to the Holocaust.

• List three different major provisions of the Versailles Treaty.

• Describe the impact of the Versailles Treaty on the people of Germany and its role in the development of the Holocaust

• Explain the structural weaknesses of the Weimar Republic.

• Discuss the impact of economic depression on the Weimar Republic.