Study Guide: The Holocaust in 50 Flashcards, Rebuilt as a Timeline from 1933 to 1946
Holocaust flashcards (PX0527): Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, Einsatzgruppen, Wannsee, the six death camps, Yad Vashem — reordered into a clear timeline.
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The Holocaust deck on Flip It (PX0527, 50 cards) is short and accurate, but its cards are in no particular order. The Nuremberg Laws come after the Einsatzgruppen, Aktion T4 comes after the death marches, and the Nazi rise to power only shows up at card 11. Facts learned in random order are hard to remember. Before you start reviewing, put the cards into a timeline.
Study this deck: The Holocaust
1 / 10What was the Holocaust?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
Key cards, in chronological order
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| What were the Nuremberg Laws (1935)? | Laws restricting Jews' economic activity, reserving citizenship for those of "German or related blood", and criminalizing relationships between Jews and non-Jewish Germans |
| What was Kristallnacht? | The pogrom of November 9-10, 1938: over 7,500 Jewish shops looted, over 1,000 synagogues damaged, at least 90 Jews murdered, 30,000 men arrested |
| What were the Einsatzgruppen? | Mobile killing squads that followed German forces into the Soviet Union, conducting mass shootings |
| What was the Wannsee Conference? | A January 1942 meeting where Nazi officials coordinated the implementation of the Final Solution |
| What was Zyklon B? | A cyanide-based pesticide used in gas chambers to murder millions |
| What was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? | A 1943 Jewish armed resistance against deportation to extermination camps |
| What were death marches? | Forced evacuations of camp prisoners near the end of the war |
| Who were the Righteous Among the Nations? | Non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews, honored by Yad Vashem |
The deck covers these terms: Shoah, Final Solution (Endlösung), the Jewish question, Lebensraum, Volksgemeinschaft, the stab-in-the-back myth, Aktion T4, ghettos, concentration vs extermination camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno, selection, Holocaust trains, forced labor, collaborators, the 1942 Allied Joint Declaration, the Nuremberg Trials, denazification, reparations and Yad Vashem.
A timeline in five periods
- Ideas (before 1933): cards 12, 13, 26, 27, 28, 31, 47
- Persecution in Germany (1933–1939): cards 10, 11, 8, 29, 30, 9
- War and ghettos (1939–1941): cards 14, 15, 25
- Genocide (1941–1945): cards 6, 20, 7, 21, 18, 4, 35, 36, 16, 33, 23
- Aftermath: cards 38, 43, 37, 39, 44, 40
Add years to the cards that don't have them. Aktion T4 started in 1939. Wannsee took place on 20 January 1942. The Allied Joint Declaration was issued on 17 December 1942. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began on 19 April 1943.
Three cards to fix
- Card 4 lists five extermination camps. Historians usually count six: add Majdanek. Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek were both concentration camps and killing centers, which links this card to card 45.
- Cards 16 and 46 say the same thing (1942 was the deadliest year). Keep one. Card 50 also repeats the death toll from card 1.
- Card 48 calls the Holocaust "the single deadliest genocide in human history". Historians debate that ranking. Change the card to what the deck can support: about six million Jews murdered, two-thirds of Europe's Jews.
Study tip: treat 1941 as the turning point. Before June 1941 the cards describe exclusion, expulsion and ghettos. After the invasion of the Soviet Union, they describe killing. When you answer a card, first ask yourself which side of that line it falls on. It is the quickest way to stop mixing up the Nuremberg Laws with the Nuremberg Trials, or the ghettos with the camps.
For the wider war, see the World War II European Theater study guide. Search for deck code PX0527 in the library on Flip It.
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