AP 9th Class Social History Bits 3rd Lesson Nazism and the Rise of Hitler
Select and write the most appropriate option out of the four options given.
Question 1.
Why did Helmuth’s father kill himself?
A) He thought people kill him and his family.
B) He feared revenge by the Allied powers.
C) He feared about the crimes during Nazi rule.
D) He was depressed by Germany’s defeat in World War II.
Answer:
B) He feared revenge by the Allied powers.
Question 2.
USSR and USA joined Allied powers in ________
A) 1932
B) 1942
C) 1941
D) 1931
Answer:
C) 1941
Question 3.
Propaganda minister of Hitler
A) Goebbels
B) Darwin
C) Hindenburg
D) Herbert Spencer
Answer:
A) Goebbels
Question 4.
Germany surrendered to Allies in
A) May 1947
B) May 1945
C) May 1939
D) May 1931
Answer:
B) May 1945
Question 5.
Allied powers in the World War II
A) UK, France
B) UK, France, USA
C) Russia and USA
D) UK, France, USA, USSR
Answer:
D) UK, France, USA, USSR
Question 6.
War in 1917 led to the strengthening of Allies and the defeat of Germany because of entry of
A) Spain
B) Japan
C) USA
D) USSR
Answer:
C) USA
Question 7.
Which of the following statements is FALSE about soldiers in the World War -1?
A) Soldiers in reality led mierable lives in trenches survived with feeding on the copras.
B) They faced poisonous gas and enemy shelling and loss of soldiers.
C) Soldiers are ready to die for their country’s honour and personal glory.
D) Agressive propaganda glorified war.
Answer:
C) Soldiers are ready to die for their country’s honour and personal glory.
Question 8.
Name of the Republic established after World War I.
A) Republic of German Federation
B) German Republic State
C) The Weimar Republic
D) Republic of German Federation
Answer:
C) The Weimar Republic
Question 9.
Name of German Parliament.
A) Reichstag
B) Duma
C) Auschwitz
D) Weimer
Answer:
A) Reichstag
Question 10.
International Military Tribunal was set up in
A) Versailles
B) Nuremberg
C) Berlin
D) Auschwitz
Answer:
B) Nuremberg
Question 11.
International Military Tribunal was set up to prosecute
A) Nazi war criminals for crimes against peace.
B) Crimes against humanity.
C) For war crimes.
D) All these
Answer:
D) All these
Question 12.
German fought the First World War alongside
A) Austria
B) France
C) Russia
D) USA
Answer:
A) Austria
Question 13.
Initially Germany occupied
A) Russia and Poland
B) France and Belgium
C) France and Poland
D) Russia and France
Answer:
B) France and Belgium
Question 14.
With which country’s help Allies strengthed?
A) Britain
B) Russia
C) USA
D) England
Answer:
C) USA
Question 15.
The treaty which was signed by Germany after the defeat in World War I
A) Treaty of Versailles
B) Treaty of Germany
C) Treaty of Paris
D) Treaty of Allies
Answer:
A) Treaty of Versailles
Question 16.
After World War I National Assembly of Germany met at
A) Berlin
B) Reichstag
C) Auschwity
D) Weimar
Answer:
D) Weimar
Question 17.
Weimar Republic was supported by
A) Socialists
B) Socialists and Democrats
C) Communists
D) Socialists, Catholics and Democrats
Answer:
D) Socialists, Catholics and Democrats
Question 18.
Treaty of Versailles was hated.by Germans because
A) prepared Germans as slaves
B) against the terms of German people
C) dimilitarised Germany
D) Germany lost 75% of its iron resources
Answer:
D) Germany lost 75% of its iron resources
Question 19.
November criminals were
A) Jews
B) Gypsies
C) Socialists, Catholics, Democrats
D) Nazis
Answer:
C) Socialists, Catholics, Democrats
Question 20.
Uprising in Germany patterered on the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
A) Spartacist League
B) Democrats
C) Free Corps
D) November Criminals.
Answer:
A) Spartacist League
Question 21.
Socialists, Catholics and Democrats uprising was crushed by
A) Bolsheviks
B) November criminals
C) Military
D) Weimar Republic
Answer:
D) Weimar Republic
Question 22.
Communist party of Germany was formed by
A) Democrats
B) Bolsheviks
C) Spartacists
D) Jews
Answer:
C) Spartacists
Question 23.
War Veterans Organisation
A) Gestapo
B) Free corps
C) Storm troopers
D) Security service
Answer:
B) Free corps
Question 24.
Germany faced economic crisis in the year
A) 1923
B) 1932
C) 1925
D) 1921
Answer:
A) 1923
Question 25.
Industrial area which was occupied by France
A) Berlin
B) Ruhr
C) Versailles
D) Weimar
Answer:
B) Ruhr
Question 26.
Secret State Police of Germany
A) Gypsy
B) Gestapo
C) Jacobins
D) Jews
Answer:
B) Gestapo
Question 27.
Hyperinflation is ….
A) when prices decrease phenomenally
B) when prices rise phenomenally
C) becoming creditor from debtor
D) becoming debted from creditor
Answer:
B) when prices rise phenomenally
Question 28.
The American Plan which failed and pulled Germany out of crisis
A) Reorganisation Plan
B) Jungvolk
C) Dawes Plan
D) Euthanasia Programme
Answer:
C) Dawes Plan
Question 29.
Wall Street Exchange crashed in the year
A) 1939
B) 1919
C) 1921
D) 1929
Answer:
D) 1929
Question 30.
The period of the Great Depression called
A) Renaissance
B) Dark Age
C) The Great Economic Crisis
D) Recession period
Answer:
C) The Great Economic Crisis
Question 31.
Becoming impoverished to the level of working classes
A) Debtor
B) Proletarianisation
C) Creditor
D) Both A and C
Answer:
B) Proletarianisation
Question 32.
The Article of the Weimar Constitution which gave the President, the power to impose emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree
A) Article 84
B) Article 48
C) Article 44
D) Article 28
Answer:
B) Article 48
Question 33.
The main reason for Germany’s defeat in the World War I ?
A) The Allied became strong by the entry of US.
B) Germany was- not prepard for the war.
C) Support frofn other countries lacked for Germany.
D) It had weak military strength.
Answer:
A) The Allied became strong by the entry of US.
Question 34.
Hitler was born in
A) Austria
B) Australia
C) France
D) Berlin
Answer:
A) Austria
Question 35.
Hitler was born in
A) 1879
B) 1899
C) 1889
D) 1869
Answer:
C) 1889
Question 36.
The treaty which made Hitler furious.
A) Treaty of Paris
B) Treaty of Berlin
C) Treaty of Nuremberg
D) Treaty of Versailles
Answer:
D) Treaty of Versailles
Question 37.
Which of the given parties came to be known as Nazi Party?
A) National Socialist German Workers Party.
B) Socialist Party.
C) Socialist Democratic Party.
D) German Workers Party.
Answer:
A) National Socialist German Workers Party.
Question 38.
Which of the following was not a feature of the Nazi style of politics?
A) Red banners with Swastika
B) Not so powerful of Hitler
C) Ritualised applause
D) Massive rallies
Answer:
B) Not so powerful of Hitler
Question 39.
Who offered chancellorship to Hitler?
A) Charlotte Beradt
B) Mussolini
C) Hindenburg
D) Stalin
Answer:
C) Hindenburg
Question 40.
Enabling Act was passed on
A) 3rd March 1932
B) 3rd March 1931
C) 3rd March 1939
D) 23rd March 1933
Answer:
D) 23rd March 1933
Question 41.
Why the famous Enabling Act passed?
A) To establish dictatorship in Germany
B) To establish democracy in Germany
C) To establish Socialism
D) To establish autocratic rule in Germany
Answer:
A) To establish dictatorship in Germany
Question 42.
Hitler assigned the responsiblity of economic recovery to
A) Hindenburg
B) Hjalmar Schacht
C) Charlotte Beradt
D) Pastor Niemoeller
Answer:
B) Hjalmar Schacht
Question 43.
People’s car
A) Maruti
B) Holocaust
C) Volkswagen
D) None of these
Answer:
C) Volkswagen
Question 44.
Germany pulled out from League of Nations in _______
A) 1931
B) 1932
C) 1938
D) 1933
Answer:
D) 1933
Question 45.
Under the slogan ‘One people, One Empire and One Leader’ Hitler integrated
A) Austria and Germany
B) Austria and Russia
C) Germany and Russia
D) Austria and USA
Answer:
A) Austria and Germany
Question 46.
Hitler seized Sudentenland from
A) USA
B) Russia
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Britain
Answer:
C) Czechoslovakia
Question 47.
Along with Germany which country considered the Versailles, verdict was too harsh
A) Russia
B) England
C) Czechoslovakia
D) USA
Answer:
B) England
Question 48.
World War II began with German invasion of
A) Russia
B) USA
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Poland
Answer:
Question 49.
Invasion oh Poland started a war with
A) France and England
B) Russia and England
C) France and Russia
D) Russia and USA
Answer:
A) France and England
Question 50.
Power was signed
A) Germany, USA and USSR
B) Italy, USSR and Germany
C) Germany, Italy and Japan
D) Austria, Germany and USSR
Answer:
C) Germany, Italy and Japan
Question 51.
Historic blunder committed by Hitler
A) Attacking USA
B) Attacking England
C) Attacking France
D) Attacking Soviet Union
Answer:
D) Attacking Soviet Union
Question 52.
Germany was defeated at Stalingrad by
A) USA army
B) England army
C) The Soviet Red Army
D) France army
Answer:
C) The Soviet Red Army
Question 53.
Which country bombed the US base Pearl Harbor?
A) Germany
B) Japan
C) Italy
D) France
Answer:
B) Japan
Question 54.
Atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan by
A) USSR
B) France
C) USA
D) Germany
Answer:
C) USA
Question 55.
Hitler’s ideas of racialism were based on which of the following thinkers?
A) Charles Darwin
B) Pluto
C) Aristotle
D) Stalin
Answer:
A) Charles Darwin
Question 56.
Natural scientist who explained creation of plants and animals through the concept of evolution and natural selection .
A) Spencer
B) Pluto
C) Charles Darwin
D) Aristotle
Answer:
C) Charles Darwin
Question 57.
Hitler’s world view was based on the concept of
A) Spencer
B) Aristotle
C) Pluto
D) Lebensraum
Answer:
D) Lebensraum
Question 58.
According to Nazis desirables are
A) Jews
B) Gypsies
C) Nordic German Aryans
D) Communists
Answer:
C) Nordic German Aryans
Question 59.
Who among the following topped the list of undesirables?
A) Jews
B) Gypsies
C) Nordic Aryans
D) Blacks
Answer:
A) Jews
Question 60.
Science which was introduced to justify Nazi ideas of race
A) Racial science
B) Community science
C) Religious science
D) Political science
Answer:
A) Racial science
Question 61.
Destination of undesirables in Germany
A) Disinfection areas
B) Gas chambers
C) General Government
D) Ghettos
Answer:
C) General Government
Question 62.
Subject which was introduced to justify Nazi ideas of race
A) Nazi political science
B) Racial science
C) Community science
D) Nazi religious science
Answer:
B) Racial science
Question 63.
According to Hitler, the game which make children iron hearted, strong and masculine.
A) Cricket
B) Table tennis
C) Boxing
D) Football
Answer:
C) Boxing
Question 64.
Jungvolk means
A) Nazi youth group for children above 14 years
B) German Youth League
C) Nazi youth group for children below 14 years
D) Undesirable German children
Answer:
C) Nazi youth group for children below 14 years
Question 65.
In the context of Germany, who were usurers?
A) Peasants
B) Labourers
C) Persons who take loans
D) Moneylenders
Answer:
D) Moneylenders
Question 66.
Theory of the ’Survival of the fittest’ was propounded by
A) Herbert Spencer
B) Ford
C) Jews
D) German youth
Answer:
A) Herbert Spencer
Question 67.
The film which was made to create hatred for Jews
A) The External Jew
B) Mein Kamph
C) The Jews Nation
D) The Eternal Jew
Answer:
D) The Eternal Jew
Question 68.
The name given to gas chambers by Nazis
A) Disinfection areas
B) Ghetto
C) Evacuation
D) Euthanasia
Answer:
A) Disinfection areas
Question 69.
Which was not a feature of Jew Stereotypes?
A) Foreign agents
B) Generous and charitable
C) Vermin and rats
D) Weak and degenerate
Answer:
B) Generous and charitable
Question 70.
Third Reich of Dreams was published by
A) Pastor Niemoeller
B) Hitler
C) Charlotte Paul
D) Charlotte Beradt
Answer:
D) Charlotte Beradt
Question 71.
In the context of Germany what was holocaust?
A) Nazi propaganda
B) Nasi scht
C) Atrocities
D) Nazi killing operations
Answer:
D) Nazi killing operations
One word or one sentence answer questions
Question 1.
Who were called the Nazi?
Answer:
Supporters of Hitler were called Nazis.
Question 2.
What was Hitler’s determination?
Answer:
Hitler’s determination was to make Germany a mighty power and conquer all of Europe.
Question 3.
What was Nazism?
Answer:
It was a system introduced by Hitler, which had a structure of ideas about the world and politics.
Question 4.
When did Germany surrender to the Allies?
Answer:
In May 1945.
Question 5.
When did the second World War end in Europe?
Answer:
The second World War ended in May 1945 with Hitler’s defeat.
Question 6.
Who was Hiller’s propaganda Minister?
Answer:
Goebbels.
Question 7.
Which organisation was set up to prosecute Nazi was criminals?
Answer:
International military tribunal in Nuremberg.
Question 8.
How many war criminals were given death sentence at the Nuremberg tribunal?
Answer:
Eleven (11).
Question 9.
Which country fought alongside with Germany in the First World War?
Answer:
Austria
Question 10.
What were the allies in the World War I?
Answer:
England, France and Russia
Question 11.
What were the countries did Germany occupy initially?
Answer:
France and Belgium.
Question 12.
In which year Germany was defeated in the World War I?
Answer:
1918 November.
Question 13.
Name the peace treaty signed after world war I?
Answer:
Treaty of Versailles.
Question 14.
Who were called November Criminals?
Answer:
Those who supported the Weimer Republic were called November Criminals.
Question 15.
What was Free Corps?
Answer:
War veterans organisation.
Question 16.
Who founded the Communist party of Germany?
Answer:
The Spartacists.
Question 17.
How Germany paid their loan back?
Answer:
In the form of gold.
Question 18.
What does ‘Hyperinflation mean?
Answer:
A situation when prices rise phenomenally high.
Question 19.
What was Wall Street Exchange?
Answer:
World’s biggest Stock Exchange located in USA
Question 20.
What does proletarianisation mean?
Answer:
A fear or anxiety of being reduced to the ranks of the working class, or worse still, the unemployed.
Question 21.
In which year the Wall Street Exchange crashed?
Answer:
1929.
Question 22.
In which year Hitler was born?
Answer:
In 1889 in Austria.
Question 23.
In which year Hitler joined a small group called German workers party?
Answer:
1919.
Question 24.
What was the bew name of German Workers Party?
Answer:
National Socialist German Workers Party.
Question 25.
What was the National Socialist German Workers Party populary known as?
Answer:
Nazi Party.
Question 26.
In which year Hitler planned to seize Bavaria?
Answer:
In 1923.
Question 27.
When did the Nazism become a popular movement?
Answer:
During the Great Depression time.
Question 28.
How did Hitler change people?
Answer:
Hitler changed people by his speeches.
Question 29.
Who offered the Chancellorship of Hitler?
Answer:
President Hindenburg.
Question 30.
Who was regarded as the most important citizen according to Hitler?
Answer:
Mother.
Question 31.
When did the famous Enabling Act was passed?
Answer:
On March 3rd, 1933.
Question 32.
Whom did Hitler give the responsibility to recover the economy?
Answer:
Hjalmar Schacht.
Question 33.
What was the slogan did Hitler give to integrate Austria and Germany?
Answer:
One people, One empire, and One leader.
Question 34.
In which year Germany invaded Poland?
Answer:
September 1939.
Question 35.
When did the Tripartite Pact was signed and between whom?
Answer:
In 1940 September. Between Germany, Italy and Japan.
Question 36.
What was Hitler’s long term aim?
Answer:
Conquering Eastern Europe.
Question 37.
In which year did Hitler attack the Soviet Union?
Answer:
June 1941.
Question 38.
Which country expanded its power in the East?
Answer:
Japan.
Question 39.
What was Synagogue?
Answer:
Place of worship for the people of Jewish faith.
Question 40.
What was Jungvolk?
Answer:
Nazi youth group for children below 14 years of age.
Question 41.
When did Germany invade the USSR?
Answer:
On 22nd June 1941.
Question 42.
When did the; allied forces came victorious in Europe?
Answer:
On 8th May 1945.
Question 43.
When the mass murder of the Jews begin?
Answer:
On 23rd June 1941.
Question 44.
What were the gas chambers called?
Answer:
Gas chambers were called ‘disinfection areas’.
Question 45.
What was the most infamous film in which orthodox Jews were stereotyped and marked?
Answer:
The Eternal Jew.
Question 46.
Who wrote the book ‘Third Reich of Dreams’?
Answer:
Charlotte Beradt.
Question 47.
What was the name given to separately marked aread where the Jews lived?
Answer:
Ghettos.
Question 48.
Which sport did Hitler promote?
Answer:
Boxing.
Question 49.
Which move of Hitler is said to be a historical blunder?
Answer:
Attacking the Soviet Union in June 1941 was the historical blunder of Hitler.
Question 50.
What was the name of Hitler’s autobiography?
Answer:
Mein Kamph which mean my struggle.
Fill in the blanks:
1. Nazism was a structure of ideas about the ________ and ________
Answer: World, politics
2. Propaganda minister Goebbels committed suicide in ________
Answer: Berlin, bunker
3. Organisation stablished to prosecute Nazi war criminals was ________
Answer: International Military Teibunal
4. International Military Tribunal was set up in ________
Answer: Nuremberg
5. First World War was fought between ________ and ________
Answer: 1914-1918
6. German Parliament ________
Answer: Reichstag
7. Treaty peace with Allies organised at ________
Answer: Versailles
8. The rich-resource land occupied by the Allies was ________
Answer: Rhineland
9. After the war Europe turned from creditor to ________
Answer: debtors
10. Socialists, Catholics and Democrats who supported the Weimar Republic were called ________
Answer: November criminals
11. War veterans organisation called ________
Answer: Free croup
12. Communist Party of Germany was founded by ________
Answer: Spartacist
13. Leading industrial area which was occupied by French was ________
Answer: Ruhr
14. Printing too much currency leads to ________
Answer: hyperinflation
15. Major short loans to Germany was given by ________
Answer: USA
16. Willing to do any work was the result from ________
Answer: unemployed
17. Becoming impoverished to the level of working classes is called ________
Answer: proletarianisation
18. Article which give the president the powers to impose emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree was ________
Answer: Article 48
19. Hitler spent his youth in ________
Answer: poverty
20. Initially Hitle joined in a small group called ________
Answer: Geeman Worker’s Party
21. German Worker’s Party was renamed by Hitler as ________
Answer: National Socialism German Worker’s Party
22. Nazi propaganda projected Hitler as a ________
Answer: Messiah, a saviour
23. President of Germany in January 1933 was ________
Answer: hinden
24. Act which established dictatorship in Germany was ________
Answer:
25. Regular uniform of police in Germany ________
Answer: green uniform
26. Gestapo means ________
Answer: Secret State Police
27. Economist who was assigned the responsibility of economic recovery by Hitler was ________
Answer: Hjalmar Schacht
28. Volkswagen was known as ________
Answer: people’s car
29. Hitler pulled out of the League of Nations in ________
Answer: 1933
30. Hitler occupied Rhineland from Allied Armies in ________
Answer: 1936
31. Hitler integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 with slogan ________
Answer: One people, One empire and One leader
32. Germany invaded Poland in ________
Answer: September 1939
33. Tripartite was signed between ________ and ________
Answer: Germany,Italy, Japan
34. During Hitler’s period were at the top and were located at the lowest.
Answer: Nordic German Aryans, Jews
35. ________ country became a Laboratory for the experiment of the concept of Lebensraum.
Answer: Poland
36. Apart from Jews and were considered as racial inferiors.
Answer: Gypsies, blacks
37. Youth League of the Nazis was renamed as
Answer: Hitler Youth
38. Special treatement, final solution were the terms used for the mass killings of ________
Answer: jews
39. Euthanasia was the term used for the mass killings of ________
Answer: disabled
40. Deporting people to gas chambers ________
Answer: Evacuation
41. Gas chamber were ________
Answer: disinfection areas
Match the following.
Question 1.
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Hindenburg | A) German Parliament |
| 2) Hjalmar Schacht | B) Mein Kamph |
| 3) Goebbels | C) Holocaust |
| 4) Reichstag | D) President, Weimar Republic |
| 5) Hitler | E) Propaganda Minister |
| F) Economist |
Answer:
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Hindenburg | D) President, Weimar Republic |
| 2) Hjalmar Schacht | F) Economist |
| 3) Goebbels | E) Propaganda Minister |
| 4) Reichstag | A) German Parliament |
| 5) Hitler | B) Mein Kamph |
Question 2.
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Wall Street Exchange | A) Great depression |
| 2) 1914-18 | B) Free Corps |
| 3) Economic Crisis | C) First World War |
| 4) Symbol of Nazi Party | D) USA |
| 5) War Veterans Organisation | E) Second World War |
| F) Swastika |
Answer:
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Wall Street Exchange | D) USA |
| 2) 1914-18 | C) First World War |
| 3) Economic Crisis | A) Great depression |
| 4) Symbol of Nazi Party | F) Swastika |
| 5) War Veterans Organisation | B) Free Corps |
True or False:
1. A national Assembly met at Weimar and established a democratic constitution with a Federal structure. ( )
Answer: True
2. Wall Street Exchange is known as the free corps.
Answer: False
3. The First World War left a deep imprint on European society and polity. ( )
Answer: True
4. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria. ( )
Answer: True
5. The Enabling Act of 1935 established democracy in Germany. ( )
Answer: False
6. The separately marked areas for Jews were called as Euthanasia. ( )
Answer: False
7. Austria extended its support to Germany and bombed US base at Pearl harbour. ( )
Answer: False
8. In Nazi Germany children were told women were equal to men. ( )
Answer: False
9. Moral science was introduced to justify Nazi ideas of race. ( )
Answer: False
10. Gypsies and Blacks living in Nazi Germany were considered as racial superiors. ( )
Answer: False
Analogy:
1. First World War : 1914 : : Second World War : ________
Answer: 1939
2. First World War ending : 1918 :: Second World War ending : ________
Answer: 1945
3. Jews : Lowest:: ________ : Top.
Answer: Nordic Aryans
4. Mass killings : Final solution : : Gas chambers : ________
Answer: Evacuation
5. Hitler : Mein Kamph :: ________ Third Reich of Dreams.
Answer: Charlotte Beradt