GED Social Studies : Holocaust

Study concepts, example questions & explanations for GED Social Studies

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Example Questions

Example Question #15 : World Wars I And Ii

The deliberate and organized killing of a social, national, religious, or ethnic group is called __________.

Possible Answers:

excommunication

heresy

genocide

speculation

ostracize

Correct answer:

genocide

Explanation:

A government or military policy of deliberately killing a group of people based on social, religious, ethnic, or national reasons is called genocide. Genocides have occurred throughout human history but were particularly prominent in the twentieth century. The Holocaust was a genocide of Europe's Jews and Romani perpetrated by Nazi Germany. Hersey is speaking out against organized religious doctrine; to be ostracized means to be banished or sent away from a community; excommunication is a form of banishment carried out by the Catholic Church where individuals, or whole communities, can be shut off from the salvation provided by and through the Church.

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