Social Science Class IX-Assignment
NAZISM AND THE RISE OF HITLER
ASSIGNMENTS FOR
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
MULTIPLE CHOICE
QUESTIONS
1. What was the response of the Germans to the new Weimar Republic?
(a) They held the
new Weimar Republic responsible for Germany’s defeat and the disgrace at
Versailles
(b) The republic
carried the burden of war guilt and national humiliation
(c) It became the
target of attacks in the conservative national circles (d) All the above
2. In what ways did the First World War leave a deep imprint on European society
and polity?
(a) Soldiers were
put above civilians, trench life was glorified
(b) Politicians
and publicists laid stress on men to be aggressive and masculine
(c) Aggressive War
propaganda and national honor were given the most support and conservative
dictatorships were welcomed (d) All the above
3. Which of the following statements is false about soldiers in the World War I?
(a) The soldiers,
in reality, led miserable lives in trenches, survived with feeding on the copras
(b) They faced
poisonous gas and enemy shelling and loss of comrades
(c) All soldiers
were ready to die for their country’s honor and personal glory
(d) Aggressive
propaganda glorified war
4. The following statements are about Hitler’s early life. Which of them is
incorrect?
(a) Hitler was
born in 1889 in Austria and spent his youth in poverty
(b) He joined the
army during World War I and earned accolades for bravery
(c) He was totally
unaffected by German defeat in the War and only thought of improving his career
(d) In 1919 he
joined a small group called the German Worker’s Party, which later was known as
the Nazi Party
5. The Treaty of Versailles (1920) signed at the end of World War I, was harsh
and humiliating for Germany, because :
(a) Germany lost
its overseas colonies, and 13 per cent of its territories
(b) It lost 75% of
its iron and 26% of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania, was
forced to pay compensation of
6 billion pounds
(c) The western powers demilitarized Germany and they occupied resource rich
Rhineland in the 1920s
(d) All the above
6. Which of the following was a special surveillance and security force created
by Hitler?
(a) Regular police
force in green uniform and storm troopers
(b) Gestapo
(secret state police), the SS (the protection squads)
(c) Criminal
police (SD), the security service (d) Both (b) and (c)
7. What was Hitler’s historic blunder and why?
(a) Attack on
Soviet Union in 1941 (b) He exposed his western front to British aerial bombing
(c) The Soviet Red
Army inflicted a crushing and humiliating defeat on Germany at Stalingrad(d) All
the above
8. Hitler’s world view, which was also the Nazi ideology, was :
(a) There was no
equality between people, only a racial hierachy
(b) The blond,
blue eyed, Nordic German Aryans were at the top and Jews at the bottom. The
coloured people were placed
in between (c)
Jews were the anti-race, the arch enemies of the Aryans (d) All the above
9. Why did Helmuth’s father kill himself in the spring of 1945?
(a) He was
depressed by Germany’s defeat in Second World War
(b) He feared that
common people would mishandle him and his family (c) He feared revenge by the
Allied Powers
(d) He wanted to
die because of the crimes he had committed during Nazi rule
10. Which of the following countries led the Allied Powers in the Second World
War?
(a) UK and France
(b) USSR and USA (c) Germany and Austria (d) Both (a) and (b)
11. Which of the following bodies was set up to try and prosecute the Nazi war
criminals at the end of World War II?
(a) International
Military Tribunal (b) British Military Tribunal (c) Allied Military Tribunal (d)
Allied Judicial Court
12. Germany’s ‘genocidal war’ was against which of the following people?
(a) Jews and
political opponents (b) Gypsies and Polish civilians (c) Germans who were
considered mentally and physically disabled (d) All the above
13. Why did the Nuremburg Tribunal sentence only 11 Nazis to death for such a
massive genocide?
(a) Only these 11
Nazis were found guilty (b) The Allies did not want to be harsh on the defeated
Germany as they had been after World War I (c) Germany promised never to repeat
such an act
(d) Germany was
ready to pay a huge compensation to the Allied countries for these killings
14. Against which of these countries had Germany fought during World War I
(1914- 1918) ?
(a) England (b)
France (c) Russia (d) All the above
15. What was the most important result of the Spartacus League uprising in
Germany in 1918-19 ?
(a) The Weimar
Republic crushed the Rebellion (b) The Spartacists founded the Communist Party
of Germany
(c) The Weimar
government accepted the demands of the Spartacus League (d) Both (a) and (b)
16. Who were called the ‘November criminals’?
(a) The Opponents
of Weimar Republic (b) The Emperor who abdicated, and his men
(c) The supporters
of Weimar Republic (d) None of the above
17. War in 1917 led to the strengthening of Allies and the defeat of Germany
because of entry of :
(a) China (b)
Japan (c) the USA (d) Spain
18. The National Assembly met at Weimer and decided to establish :
(a) a democratic
constitution with a federal structure
(b) a communist
form of government (c) a powerful monarchy (d) a military state
19. What was ‘Dawes Plan’?
(a) A plan which
imposed more fines on Germany (b) A plan which withdrew all punishment from
Germany
(c) A plan which
reworked the terms of reparation to ease financial burden on the Germans (d)
None of the above
20. Which of the following statements is true about the economic crisis in
Germany in 1923?
(a) The value of
‘Mark’ (German currency) fell (b) Prices of goods soared high (c) Weimer
Republic brought economic
Prosperity (d)
Both (a) and (b)
21. What gave Nazi state its reputation as the most dreaded criminal state?
(a)
Extra-constitutional powers were given to the newly organised forces like
‘Gestapo’, the SS and SD
(b) People could
be detained in Gestapo torture chamber and sent to concentration camps
(c) No legal
procedures were there for the arrested people (d) All the above
22. Which of the following was a feature of Hitler’s foreign policy?
(a) He pulled out
of the League of Nations in 1933 (b) He decided not to attack any country
(c) He thanked the
Allied Powers for having put Germany on the right track (d) All the above
23. What was the slogan coined by Hitler when he followed his aggressive foreign
policy?
(a) Messenger from
God (b) Conquer the World
(c) One people,
One empire, and One leader (d) We are Aryans, the real rulers
24. Which incident led to the start of World War II?
(a) German
invasion of Switzerland (b) German invasion of Poland (c) Russian invasion of
Germany
(d) Japan’s
sinking of ship at Pearl Harbour
25. When and among which countries was the Tripartite Pact signed?
(a) 1940, Germany,
Italy and Japan (b) 1939, Germany, Austria and USSR
(c) 1940, England,
France and USA (d) 1938, England, Germany and USSR
26. When did Germany attack Soviet Union?
(a) 1939 (b) 1941
(c) 1942 (d) 1943
27. Which incident persuaded the USA to join the war?
(a) Hitler’s
attack on Eastern Europe (b) Hitler’s policy of genocide on the Jews
(c) Helplessness
of England and France (d) Japan’s attack on the US base at Pearl Harbour
28. When did the Second World War come to an end?
(a) January, 1944
(b) May, 1945 (c) June, 1946 (d) August, 1947
29. What was Hitler’s ideology of ‘lebensraum’ or living space?
(a) Multistoreyed
buildings should be built in Germany to increase the living space
(b) The world must
be occupied enabling the material resources and power of the German Nation to
increase.
(c) New
territories had to be acquired for settlement (d) Both (b) and (c)
30. According to the Nazis, which people were to be regarded as desirable?
(a) Pure and
healthy Nordic Aryans (b) German soldiers who helped in territorial expansion
(c) German police
of different types (d) All those who were willing to consider Hitler as God
31. Which of these were the reasons of Nazi hatred of the Jews?
(a) Jews had been
stereotyped as killers of Christ (b) They were usurers, i.e., moneylenders
(c) The Jews had
always cheated the Nazis (d) Both (a) and (b)
32. In which country did Nazi Germany first try its experiment of ‘concentration
of Germans in one area’?
(a) Poland (b)
France (c) Czechoslovakia (d) England
33. What was the destination of all ‘undesirables’ of the German Empire called?
(a) Land of
‘undersirables’ (b) Cursed land
(c) General
government (d) Land for the abnormals
34. The Nuremberg laws of citizenship of 1935 stated that :
(a) Only persons
of German or related blood would henceforth be German citizens
(b) Marriages
between Jews and Germans were forbidden
(c) Jews were
forbidden to fly the national flag (d) All the above
35. Who wrote ‘Mien Kampf’?
(a) Herbert
Spencer (b) Charles Darwin (c) Adolf Hitler (d) Goebbels
36. What was Nazi ideology with regard to school children?
(a) He believed
that education of children was not necessary
(b) A control
should be kept over children both inside and outside school
(c) All children
should be regarded as equal (d) None of the above
37. What was the process of Nazi schooling for ‘Good German’ children?
(a) Racial science
was introduced to justify Nazi ideas of race (b) School textbooks were rewritten
(c) Even the
function of sports was to nurture a spirit of violence and aggression among
children (d) All the above
38. What was ‘Jungvolk’ in Nazi Germany?
(a) Magazine (b)
Holocaust camp (c) Youth organisation(d) Schools
39. What was the thinking of Nazi Germany about women?
(a) The fight for
equality between men and women was wrong
(b) Girls had to
maintain the purity of the race and teach their children Nazi values
(c) Their role was
to be of mothers who had to be bearers of the Aryan culture and race (d) All the
above
40. Which of the following points about state behaviour towards women in Germany
is not correct.
(a) In Nazi
Germany, all mothers were treated equally (b) Women who bore racially
undersirable children were punished
(c) Those who
produced racially desirable children were awarded
(d) Honour crosses
were awarded to women to produce more children
41. What did the term ‘Evacuation’ mean?
(a) Living in
separately marked areas called ghettos (b) Deporting people to gas chambers
(c) Arrested
without any legal procedures (d) Detained without due process of law
QUESTIONS FROM CBSE EXAMINATION
PAPERS
1. Who among the following was assigned the responsibility of economic recovery
by Hitler?
(a) Goebbels (b)
Hindenburg (c) Hjalmar Schacht (d) Adam Smith
2. Which Nazi youth organisation consisted of all German boys of 14 to 18 years
of age ?
(a) Hitler Youth
(b) Jungvolk (c) Labour Service (d) Youth League
3. In context of Germany what was ‘Holocaust’?
(a) Nazi
propaganda (b) Nazi Honour Crosses (c) Nazi killing operations (d) A Nazi School
4. In context of Germany, who wrote ‘The Third Reich of Dreams’?
(a) Charlotte
Beradt (b) Pastor Niemoeller (c) Adolf Hitler (d) Hjalmar Schacht
5. The book ‘Mein Kampf’ is written by :
(a) Adolf Hitler
(b) Hindenburg (c) Mussolini (d) Charlotte Beradt
6. In the context of Germany, who were usurers?
(a) Jew teachers
(b) Moneylenders (c) Gypsies (d) Nordic Aryans
7. When did Germany withdraw herself from the League of Nations?
(a) 1930 (b) 1931
(c) 1932 (d) 1933
8. Who was the propaganda minister of Hitler ?
(a) Hjalmar
Schacht (b) Hindenburg (c) Goebbels (d) Helmuth
9. In Germany students between 10-14 years of Age had to join an organisation
named :
(a) Jungvolk (b)
Hitler’s youth (c) Volkswogan (d) Young Nazi Party
10. What was the name given to gas chambers by Nazis ?
(a) Killing
Machine (b) Solution Areas (c) Revolutionary Ground (d) Disinfection Areas
11. Hitler took over the German Workers Party and re-named it as :
(a) Secular German
Workers (b) Socialist Workers of Germany (c) National Socialist Party (d)
National Workers of Germany
12. Name the book written by Charlotte Beredt about dreams of Jews :
(a) Fearfull
dreams (b) Third Reich of dreams (c) Dreams of death (d) Dreams of Reich
13. Nazi Youth groups for children below 14 years of age were called :
(a) Youth League
(b) Hitler Youth (c) Jungvolk (d) None of these
14. Which article of the Weimar Constitution gave the President the powers to
impose emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree in Germany ?
(a) 46 (b) 47 (c)
48 (d) None of these
15. The Great Depression was a period of :
(a) Economic
crisis (b) Global crisis (c) Political crisis (d) Social crisis
16. An infamous film, which was made to create hatred for Jews was :
(a) The Essential
Jew (b) The Evergreen Jew (c) The
Eternal Jew (d) The Emigrant Jew
17. The Nazi party had become the largest party by :
(a) 1930 (b) 1931
(c) 1932 (d) 1933
18. In May 1945, Germany surrendered to :
(a) Britain (b)
USA (c) Italy (d) Allies
19. To justify Nazi ideas of race :
(a) Social Science
was introduced (b) Racial Science was introduced
(c) Biological
Science was introduced (d) Moral Science was introduced
20. Which of the following gives the meaning of Jungvolk ?
(a) Nazi youth
groups for children below 14 years of age
(b) Jew youth
groups for children below14 years of age
(c) Nazi youth
groups for children above 14 years of age (d) Jew youth groups for children
above 14 years of age
21. When Germany did not pay the reparations in 1922, how did the French react
in January 1923 ?
(a) They sought
legal advice (b) They petitioned in League of Nations (c) Doubled the
reparations and added interest
(d) They occupied
the Ruhr
22. Who constituted the Free Corps in Weimar Republic ?
(a) War veterans
(b) Communist soldiers who hated the Weimar government
(c) Soviets of
workers and sailors (d) None of these
23. People who supported the Weimar Republic were :
(a) Socialists,
Communists, Democrats (b) Democrats only
(c) Catholics,
Protestants, Conservatives (d) Socialists, Catholics, Democrats
24. Why was the new Weimar Constitution introduced in August 1919 weak ?
(a) There were
many political parties and frequent changes of government
(b) It was very
difficult to establish stability oreven get laws passed
(c) Proportional
representation meant that the lack of political consensus was reflected closely
in elected parties.
(d) All of the
above.
25. Hitler integrated which two nations under the slogan, ‘One People, One
Empire and One Vote’?
(a) Sudentenland
and Czechoslovakia (b) Austria and Hungary (c) Austria and Germany (d) Japan and
Italy
26. Hitler assigned the responsibility of economic recovery of Germany to an
economist whose name was :
(a) Amartya Sen
(b) Kautilya (c) Hialmar Schacht (d) Aristotle
27. Who amongst these offered Chancellorship to Hitler ?
(a) Churchil (b)
Plato (c) Helmuth (d) Hindenburg
28. Tripartite Pact which strengthened Hitler’s claim to international power was
signed between :
(a) Austria,
Germany, and France (b) USA, UK and France (c) Germany, UK and France (d)
Germany, Italy and Japan
29. Who among the following propounded the theory of the “Survival of the
Fittest’’ ?
(a) Charles Darwin (b) Herbert Spencer
(c) Adolf Hitler (d) Isaac Newton
30. The German Parliament is known as :
(a) National
Parliament (b) German Legislature (c) Duma (d) Reichstag
31. The treaty of Versailles was hated by Germany because :
(a) Germany lost
75% of its iron (b) Germany was demilitarized (c) Both of the above (d) None of
these
32. When did Hitler pull out of League of Nations?
(a) 1933 (b) 1930
(c) 1932 (d) 1938
33. Against which of the following country Germany was not at war in the first
world war ?
(a) England (b)
Austria (c) USA (d) Russia
34. In Weimar Republic, Article 48 did not give to the President right to :
(a) Suspend civil
right (b) Rule by degree (c) Impose Emergency (d) Install communism
35. Which one of the following was the main reason for Germany’s defeat in the
First World War ?
(a) The Allies had
powerful ammunition (b) The Allies were experts in war skills (c) The Allies
gathered armies from their
Colonies (d) The
Allies were strengthened by US entry
36. In the context of Germany, what was ‘Volkswagen’?
(a) People’s car
(b) German Police (c) Employment programme (d) German Parliament
37. Who introduced the economic plan of full production and full employment?
(a) Hitler (b)
Hjalmar Schacht (c) Herbert Spencer (d) Charles Darwin
38. What was the great political event that took place in Germany during the
Great Depression ?
(a) Socialists
lost power (b) Communists became the rulers of the country
(c) Nazism became
a mass movement (d) Hitler was imprisoned
39. What was the name of the German Parliament ?
(a) Senate (b)
Congress (c) Reichstag (d) Convention
40. Which one of the following is a reason for the entry of US in Second World
War ?
(a) Japan bombed
Pearl Harbour (b) Britain became helpless when France was defeated
(c) Racial
affinity towards British (d) US wanted to gain power by winning the war
41. Where was Hitler born?
(a) Austria (b)
Russia (c) Germany (d) Poland
42. Why was the famous Enabling Act passed?
(a) To strengthen
Nazi rule (b) To enable the government reforms
(c) To establish
dictatorship in Germany (d) To enable the smooth functioning of the government
43. Who was the founder of Nazi party ?
(a) Hitler (b)
King Kaiser (c) Mussolini (d) None
44. When did Japan attack Pearl Harbour?
(a) 8 Nov 1941 (b)
9 Dec 1941 (c) 12 Dec 1940 (d) 5 Sept 1942
45. When did Hitler become the Chancellor of Germany ?
(a) 1926 (b) 1933
(c) 1940 (d) 1936
46. Mahatma Gandhi had written a letter for international peace to :
(a) Hitler (b)
Lenin (c) Stalin (d) None of these
47. Which one of the following means the secret state police of Germany?
(a) Gestapo (b)
Cheka (c) CBI (d) FBI
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (3 marks)
1.
Describe what happened to Germany after its defeat in the First World War.
2.
Give four reasons for Hitler’s rise to power.
3.
Explain the following terms :
(a) Lebensraum (b)
A Racial State (c) Propaganda (d) Ghettoisation and Concentration Camps (e)
Jungvolk
4.
Explain the role of women in Hitler’s Germany.
5.
Explain the main views of Hitler as expressed in his book “Mein Kampf ”.
6.
Why is Nazism considered a calamity not only for Germany but for the entire
Europe?
7.
‘The German economy was the worst hit by the economic crisis.’ Discuss.
8.
Explain how the fragility of Weimar Republic led to rise of Hitler.
9.
‘Nazi ideology was synonymous with Hitler’s world view.’ Explain.
10.
Explain the social utopia of the Nazis
QUESTIONS FROM CBSE EXAMINATION
PAPERS
1.
Examine any three inherent defects in the Weimar Constitution.
2.
Examine any three features of racial hierachy that was promoted by the Hitler in
Germany under his Nazi ideology.
3.
How did Hitler reconstruct Germany?
4.
Who was Adolf Hitler ? Explain his rise to power in Germany.
OR
Explain three
factors which led to the rise of Hitler in Germany?
5.
Explain what role did women have in Nazi Society.
6.
Explain Hitler’s foreign policy.
7.
How did Nazis in Germany use media to propogate their thoughts against Jews?
8.
What were the promises made by Hitler to people of Germany ?
9.
Do you agree with the view that the Peace Treaty of Versailles with the Allies,
was harsh and humiliating for Germany. Give reasons.
10.
What do you know about ‘Nazi Schooling’?
11.
‘‘The Treaty of Versailles sowed the seeds of Second World War.’’ Justify.
12.
Why did Germany suffer from ‘‘hyperinflation’’ in 1923? Who bailed her out from
this situation ?
13.
How were the Jews worst sufferers in the Nazi Germany?
14.
What were the reasons for the rise of Nazism in Germany?
15.
Explain why Nazi propoganda was effective in creating hatred for Jews?
16.
What was the impact on Germany because of her refusal to pay war compensation in
1923? Mention any three effects.
17.
What was Hitler ’s ideology related to the geopolitical concept of ‘Lebensraum’
or living space ?
18.
From whom did Hitler borrow his racist ideology? Explain.
19.
What were the peculiar features of Nazi thinking? Explain.
20.
Why did USA enter into the Second World War?
21.
What do you understand by the Economic depression of 1929? Mention three points.
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (4 marks)
1.
Give reasons why the Weimar Republic failed to solve the problems of Germany.
2.
Why was Nazism considered to be a negation of both democracy and socialism?
3.
Describe Hitler’s rise to power with reference to his :
(a) Policy towards
the youth. (b) His personal qualities. (c) Development of the art of propaganda.
4.
Describe in detail Hitler’s treatment of the Jews.
5.
“The seeds of the Second World War were sown in the Treaty of Versailles.”
Discuss.
6.
What was the Nazi ideology of Lebensraum? How did they proceed to actualise it?
7.
‘The Nazi regime used language and media with care, and often to great effect.’
Explain.
QUESTIONS FROM CBSE EXAMINATION
PAPERS
1.
What were the main features of Hitler ’s geopolitical concept of Lebensraum?
Give four features.
2.
How did the common people react to Nazi’s crime against humanity? Elaborate your
answer by giving four suitable examples.
3.
‘Nazi ideology was synonymous with Hitler’s world view.’ Explain this statement
by giving four points.
4.
How was the Weimar Republic born in Germany? Explain.
5.
How did the world come to know about the ‘Nazi holocaust’? Explain.
6.
How did Hitler destroy the democracy in Germany? Explain.
OR
How did
destruction of democracy take place phase by phase under Hitler in Nazi Germany?
7.
What were the effects of Great Economic Depression of 1929-32 on Germany ?
Explain
8.
What were the effects of peace treaty on Germany after the First World War?
9.
What were the main effects of Nazi rule on Germany ?
10.
Explain Nazi ideologies regarding the Jews and women.
11.
Discuss the factors contributing to the meteoric rise of Hitler.
12.
What steps did Hitler take to mobilise popular support?
13.
How were the schools in Germany ‘cleansed’ and ‘purified’ under Nazi Rule ?
14.
Describe the early life of Hitler prior to his assuming power as the dictator of
Nazi Germany.
15.
How was the First World War responsible for the rise of Hitler?
16.
In what ways did the Nazi State seek to establish total control over its people?
17.
Enumerate the events which led to the Great Economic Depression.
18.
Mention the important consequences of Nazism on Germany.