Important dates
1. 1914- 1918- First World War
2. 1929-1932- The years of the Great Depression
3. 1933 – President Hidenburg offered the chancellorship to Hitler.
4. 1933 – The Enabling Act was passed.
5. 1933 – Germany pulled out of the League of Nations
6. 1936 – Germany reoccupied Rhineland
7. 1939 – Germany attacked Poland
8. 1940 – The Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan.
9. 1941 – Germany attacked Russia.
10. 1945 – End of the Second World War
Glossary words
1. Allies – The group of four countries i.e. England, France, USA, and USSR which fought against the axis power i.e. Germany, Italy and Japan during the Second World War.
2. Axis Power: The group of the three countries i.e. Germany, Italy and Japan during the Second World War.
3. Treaty of Versailles: It was the peace treaty signed after the First World War under which the humiliating terms were imposed on Germany.
4. Hyperinflation: A very high rise in the prices.
5. Concentration Camps: A camp where the people were isolated and detained without the process of law. Typically, it was surrounded by the electrified barbed wire fences. These were created by Hitler after he took the charges of Germany.
6. Nordic German Aryans: One branch of those classified as Aryans. They lived in north European countries and had German or related origin.
7. Gypsy: The groups that were classified as gypsy had their own community identity.
8. Pauperized: Reduced to absolute poverty.
9. Persecution: Systematic, organized punishment of those belonging to a group or religion.
10. Usurers: moneylenders charging excessive interest often used as the term of abuse.
11. Ghettos: a separately marked area for the Jews where they could live.
12. Enabling Act: The act which established dictatorship in Germany.
13. Jungvolk: The Nazi youth group for the children below 14 years of age.
14. Free corps: it was war veterans organization which was used by the Weimar Republic of Germany to crush the uprising which occurred after the First World War.
15. Genocide: Killing of a particular section of the people on a large scale.
16. Reparations: Remedial measures to make up for the wrong done.
17. Depleted resources: Resources which have reduced or emptied out.
18. Wall Street Exchange: The world ‘s biggest stock exchange in USA.
19. Great Economic Depression: Drastic fall in the prices in 1929.
20. Proletarianisation: To become impoverished to the level of the working classes.

21. Soviet Red Army: Powerful Soviet Army organized during the Second World War.
22. National Socialism: Socialism as was practiced by the Nazis.
23. Synagogue: The place of the worship of the Jews.
Important questions
1. Describe the foreign policy of Hitler.
The foreign policy of Hitler was as follows:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
He pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933.
He reoccupied Rhineland in 1936.
He integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan, “One people, one empire, and one leader”
He wrested German-speaking Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia and gobbled up the entire country. In all these actions,
Germany was supported by England, which had considered the Treaty of Versailles too harsh. These successes reversed the
(v)
(vi) destiny of Germany.
In September, 1939 Germany invaded Poland.
In September, 1940, a Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan. This strengthened Hitler’s claim to international power.
(vii) Puppet regimes that supported Germany were installed in a large part of Europe. By the end of 1940,Hitler was at the pinnacle of his power.
2. Describe the circumstances leading to the entry of the USA in the Second World War.
The USA had entered the First World War in 1917 but had faced economic problems thereafter. Therefore, it did not want join the Second
World War but it could not remain out of the war for long. Japan was expanding its expanded its power in the east. It had occupied French-
Indo –China and was planning attacks on US naval bases in the Pacific. Ultimately, Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombed the US base at Pearl Harbor. Under these circumstances, the US had no other option except to enter the war against Hitler and its allies.
3. Describe the traditional Christian hostility towards the Jews. How did it differ from Hitler’s hatred for Jews?
(i)
(ii)
They had been stereotyped as the killer of Christ and usurers. Until the medieval times Jews were barred from owing the land.
They survived mainly through the trade and money lending. They lived in separately areas called the ghettos. They were often persecuted through the periodic organized violence and expulsion from the land.
The traditional Christian hostility towards Jews differed from Hitler’s hatred for the Jews because his hatred was based on the pseudoscientific theories of the race, which held that the conversion was no solution to the Jewish problems. It could be solved only through their total elimination. Thus from 1933 to 1938, the Nazis terrorized, pauperized and segregated the Jews compelling them to leave the country. Steps such as boycott of the Jewish businesses, expulsion from the government services etc. were taken. The next phase, 1939-1945 aimed at concentrating them in certain areas and eventually killing them in gas chambers in Poland. Under ghettoisation(1940-44), men and women were left with nothing to survive in ghettos. From
1941 onwards Jews from Jewish houses, concentration camps and ghettos from different parts of Europe were brought to the death factories by the goods trains .Mass killings took place within minutes with the scientific precision.
4. Describe the role of the youth organizations in the Nazi Germany.
(i)
(ii)
Responsibility of the youth organizations for educating the German youth in the Spirit of National Socialism.
Ten years olds to enter Jungvolk.
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
At 14 all boys had to join the Nazi youth organization – Hitler Youth to learn to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy and hate Jews, communists, Gypsies and all those undesirables.
After rigorous ideological and physical training to join the Labour Service at the age of 18.
To serve in the armed forces and enter one of the Nazi organizations.
The youth league of the Nazis was founded in 1922. After 4 years, it was renamed Hitler Youth. Thereafter, all the other youth organizations were systematically dissolved and finally banned in order to unify the youth movement under the Nazi control.
5. Describe the art of propaganda of the Nazi regime.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
The Nazi Germany used the language and media with care and often to great effect. The terms they coined to describe their various practices are not only deceptive, they are chilling. Nazis never used the words kill or murder in their official communications. Mass killings were termed special treatment, final solution, euthanasia (for disabled), selection and disinfections. ‘Evacuation’ meant deporting people to gas chambers which were labeled ‘disinfection-areas’.
Media were carefully used to win support for the regime and popularizes its world view.
Nazi ideas were spread through visual images, films, radio, posters, catchy slogans and leaflets. In posters, groups identified as the enemies of the Germans were stereotyped, mocked and abused and described as the evil. Socialists and liberals were represented as weak and degenerate. They were attacked by the malicious foreign agents.
Propaganda films like The Eternal Jews were made to create hatred for Jews. Orthodox Jews were stereotyped and marked

and shown with flowing beards wearing kaftans.
6. How did the commons people react to Nazism?
There were different reactions to Nazism as given below:
(i) Many believed in Nazism. They saw the world through Nazis eyes, and spoke their mind in the Nazi language. They felt hatred when they saw someone like a Jew. They genuinely believed Nazism would bring prosperity and improve the general well-
(ii)
(iii) being.
Many organized active resistance to Nazism, braving police repression and death.
The large majority of the Germans however, were passive onlookers and apathetic witnesses. They were too scared to act, to differ, to protest. They preferred to look away.
7. Explain the main causes of the Great Economic Depression in USA in 1929.
The main causes were:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Overproduction led to the economic depression and the collapse of the American stock market.
American farmers had greatly increased their production during the war to feed their allies. But after the war, the demand of the food stuffs was drastically reduced and the prices fell.
The capitalists tried to increase their profits and paid the low wages to the workers. Thus, the goods remained unsold in
America and there was not much demand in Europe due to the collapse of its economy after the First World War.
(iv)
(v)
Americans began to speculate in the stock market with the borrowed money. As a result in October 1929, the New Stock
Exchange collapsed.
Value of the shares dropped drastically. Vast fortunes were wiped out. Hundreds of American banks, factories, mining companies and business firms went bankrupt. There was large scale unemployment, poverty and starvation.
8. Explain the threefold plan of Hitler after becoming Chancellor of Germany to consolidate the Nazi power.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Hitler’s threefold plan comprised of capturing the legal authority to rule, crushing the country’s political opposition and eliminating rivals within the party.
In the pursuit of first, he used the Reichstag fire incident to clamp down the communists. He armed himself with the emergency powers and murdered and jailed key communist leaders and suppressed civil liberties.
In March 1933, the German Reichstag passed the enabling laws which transferred all the powers from the Reichstag to the government headed by him.
Next Hitler turned his attention to the rival political parties. He outlawed all existing and potential opposition institutions. By July
1933, the Nazis were the only legitimate party in Germany.
Opposition leaders were imprisoned, sent to the concentration camps or murdered. A system of spying on the common man (iv)
(v) was introduced as Germany became a police state. People were forced to swear their personal loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi salute became a compulsory means of greeting each other.
His third step was elimination of potential rivals within the Nazi party. The growing power of SA alarmed the German officer corps who feared that the SA would assume the position of a parallel army and threaten their position. Hitler realized he needed the regular army to consolidate his power. On June 1934, he ordered the murder of key SA leaders. Over next three days hundreds of people were killed. After a month the President Hidenburg died and Hitler assumed the offices of both the
President and Chancellor.
9. What was National Socialism?
According to the Nazis, it was different from ‘Big capitalism” or American economic system and Bolshevism or Marxist economic system.
10. What do you mean by the Second Front in the Second World War?
Since 1942, in Europe the most disastrous battle had been fought between Germany and Russia on the Eastern Front. In 1944, American and Britain troops, numbering between 1,00,000 and 2,00,000 landed on the coast of Normandy in France and opened another front. This new front is known as the Second Front. Now Germany had to fight on many fronts. The opening of the so- called Second Front hastened her fall.
11. What were two main characteristics of the Fascist and the Nazi movement?
Between the two World Wars (1919-1939), Fascism rose in Italy under Mussolini and Nazism in Germany under Hitler. Their two main characteristics were the following:
(i)
(ii)
Both Fascism and Nazism were in favour of dictatorship. Both were against democracy. They were in favour of ending all types of parliamentary institutions and both of them glorified the rule of the great leader.
Both of them were in favour of crushing all types of opposition and sorts of party formations.

12. Describe the problems faced by the Weimar Republic.
After the defeat of the Germany in the First World War. King of Germany fled to Holland to save his life. Soon a National Assembly met at
Weimar, established a Republic there on August 10, 1919. The Republic had to face many problems, some of which are the following:
(1) This republic had to sign the degrading Treaty of Versailles ( June 1919) where she had to cede many territories and had to agree to the payment of a large war indemnity. So this republic was defamed from the very beginning.
(2) As no party had majority in the legislation so a coalition was set up. But the party strife in the coalition government was set up. But the party strife in the coalition government made the Republic weak from the very beginning.
(3) Knowing the weak position of the Republic, the Royalists or who were faithful to the German ruler, captured Berlin in March 1920 and brought an end to the Republic. Though their attempt was soon nullified, but it gave a great set back to the new Republic.
(4) The Young Weimar Republic was crippled financially when being defeated, Germany was asked to pay a huge war indemnity amount to 6 billion pounds. With all its resources, the Republic could not pay such a huge amount so it became quite unpopular among its people.
(5) As a result of the defeat, there was devastation, starvation, unemployment, humiliation everywhere. The priced of the different commodities rose drastically and the people had no money to pay them because of unemployment and retrenchment. There was an economic crisis in the country and the Republic failed to solve the economic problems of the people.
(6) The territorial readjustment with the neighbouring countries, especially with France and Poland, posed a tough problem for the new
Republic. France was bent upon occupying the rich territory of Ruhr, which was the industrial hub of Germany.
(7) Because of the opposition of the Allied Powers, Germany could not become a member of the League of Nations till 1925. Such a thing created more resentment in Germany and as a result the Weimar Republic had to spend a restless time.
(8) The World wide economic crises 1929-1933 also crippled Germany. As a result of this Germany could not pay the installments of the war indemnity which created bad taste.
13. Discuss why Nazism became popular in Germany in 1930?
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Humiliating terms of Treaty of Versailles.
Economic Crises in Germany after the War.
Spread of communism under influence of Russian Revolution which led to instability in the government.
Making the best use of the party strife.
(v)
(vi)
Germany had no faith in democracy.
The need of Corps for rise of Germany
(vii) Personality of Hitler
All the points given above need to be explained.
14. What were the main and the peculiar feature of the Nazi theory?
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
The state is above all. All the powers should be vested in the State. People exist for the State, not the state for the people.
It was in favour of ending all the types of the parliamentary institutions and glorified the rule of a great leader.
It was in favour of crushing all types of the party formations and oppositions.
It was in favour of rooting out liberalism, socialism, and communism.
It preached hatred for the Jews who were responsible for the economic misery of the Germans.
The Nazi Party considered Germany superior to all other nations and wanted to have her influence all over the world.
It wanted to mobilize the private and State efforts for the development of the agriculture and the industries etc.
It wanted to denounce the disgracing Treaty of Versailles.
It extolled war and glorified the use of force.
It aimed at increasing the German Empire and acquiring all the colonies snatched away from her.
15. Explain why Nazi propaganda was effective in creating a hatred for the Jews.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
For all their woes, after the First World War, the Germans held the Weimar Republic responsible for the same because it had signed humiliating treaty with the allies. There was all round confusion, humiliation and unemployment. At such time Hitler came as a messiah.
The traditional Christian hatred for the Jews, because they accused to have killed Christ, was fully exploited by the Nazis so the Germans easily became prejudicial against Jews.
The racial theory put forward by the Nazis that the Jews belonged to a lower race and as such were undesirable further had a deep effect on the German people. They kept quiet even when the Jews were killed by thousands in the gas chambers.
The Nazis injected the hatred theory against the Jews from the beginning of the child’s schooling so that when they grew up, they would themselves become preachers of the hatred theory. The teachers were thrown out of the schools and the Jews children were thrown out of the schools. These purification methods and new ideological training to the new generation of children went a long way in making the Nazi propaganda quite effective creating hatred for the Jews.
Propaganda films were used to create hatred for the Jews. The Eternal Jews was one of them.

Multiple Choice Questions:
1. Which of the following was not a member of the allied power?
(a) Japan (b) USSR (c) UK (d) France
2. The Axis powers consisted of
(a) Germany, Italy, Japan (b) France, Italy,
Japan
3. In which year Germany surrendered to the Allies?
(a) 1946
4. What is genocide war?
(b) 1947
(c) Germany, Italy, USA
(c) 1945
(d) Germany, Italy, France
(d) 1978
(a) Killing of the people on large scale
(b) A war against socialism
(c) A war against capitalism
5. Which of the following countries entered the First World War in 1917?
(a) Japan (b) USA (c) France
(d) A war for the economic rights
(d) India
6. What is Reichstag?
(a) German Parliament (b) Russian Parliament (c) Union of the workers
7. Which treaty was signed with Germany after the Second World War?
(a) Treaty of Paris (b) Treaty of London (c) Treaty of Versailles
(d) Central powers
(d) Treaty of Tokyo
8. Which of the following was not the term of the Treaty of Versailles?
(a) Germany was (b) All its overseas (c) Germany was forced to demilitarised colonies were overtaken by the pay the compensation amounting 6 billion
Allies pounds
9. What is hyperinflation?
(a) A very high price rise (b) A great fall in prices
(c) Shortage of currency
10. What was the cause of the hyper-inflation in Germany in 1923?
(a) Overprinting of the (b) Shortage of the (c) Unemployment currency currency
(d) Germany was declared a socialist country.
(d) None of the above
(d) Overproduction
11. Which of the following country bailed out Germany from the hyperinflation situation?
(a) France (b) England (c) USA
12. Which incident is considered as the start of the Great Depression?
(a) The crash of the Wall (b) The signing of the (c) The fall of Hitler
Street Exchange Treaty of Versailles
13. Hitler was born in:
(a) Australia (b) Austria
14. Which party was named as the Nazi party?
(a) National Socialist (b) Nationalist Socialist
German Workers
Party
Workers Party
(c) France
(c) National Congress of
Germany
(d) Japan
(d) The Russian Revolution
(d) Germany
(d) National Workers Party
(b) (c) (d)

15. What was Enabling Act?
(a) The act through which dictatorship was established in
(b) The act through which democracy
(c) Through which dictatorship was
Germany was established in
Germany established in Italy
16. Which of the following was not the feature of the Enabling Act?
(a) Dictatorship was (b) It gave Hitler all the (c) All the political party established in
Germany
17. Who was Hjalmar Schacht?
(a) Socialist powers to sideline
Parliament and rule by the decree
(b) Economist except the Nazi was banned
(c) Capitalist
18. Which country provided the unspoken support to Germany during 1933?
(a) USA (b) England (c) France
(d) The act through which democracy was established in France
(d) Collectivisation was introduced in
Germany
(d) Scientist
(d) Japan
19. Which incident started the Second World War?
(a) Germany’s attack over Japan
(b) Japan’s attack over
America
(c) England’s attack over
Germany
(d) Germany’s attack over Poland
20. In 1940, a Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, _______________ and ______________
(a) Japan and Italy (b) Japan and France (c) Italy and USA (d) France and England
21. In 1941, Hitler attacked _________________
(a) France (b) USA (c) Italy (d) Russia
22. Which incident provoked USA to enter the Second World War?
(a) When Japan (b) When France (c) When Japan extended extended its support to Hitler and bombed
US base at Pearl
Harbour extended its support to Hitler and bombed US base at Pearl
Harbour its support to Hitler and bombed US base at New
York
23. Hitler hated _______________________
(a) Christians (b) Muslims (c) Jews
24. Nazis wanted only a society of pure and healthy _______________
(a) Nordic Aryans (b) Christians (c) Muslims
25. Which of the following was not part of the Hitler’s policy for youth?
(a) Jews, the physically handicapped Gypsies were thrown out of the schools
(b) Children were taught to be loyal and submissive, hate Jews and worship Hitler
(c) Ten years old had to enter Jungvolk
(d) When Hitler attacked Poland
(d) Aryans
(d) None of these
(d) Right to free and compulsory education for all
26. What was the theme of the movie “The Eternal Jews”?
(a) To create hate for the
Jews
(b) To create the sympathy for the
Jews
(c) To show the victory of
Hitler
(d) To increase the popularity of Hitler

27. Which of the following was used as a code for the mass killing?
(a) Final solution (b) Tiger (c) Target
28. Which of the following was not the part of Hitler’s policy for the Cult of Motherhood?
(a) Equal rights for women
(b) Children in Nazi
Germany were repeatedly told that women were
(c) Mothers were suppose to teach their children the Nazi values radically different from men
29. Which of the following can best define Nazism?
(a) Hitler’s determination (b) Extermination of to make Germany a great nation. the Jews
(c) A system, a structure of the ideas about the world and the politics
30. Allied powers in World War II:
(a) Germany, Italy, Japan (b) Germany, Italy and
Turkey
31. The International War Tribunal was set up in:
(a) Vienna (b) Munich
(c) UK, France and Italy
(c) Nuremberg
(d) Murder
(d) All those women who produced the radically desirable children were rewarded.
(d) Hitler’s ambition of conquering the world
(d) UK, France , USSR and USA
(d) Auschwitz
32. World War II began with the German invasion of:
(a)
(a)
Poland
Alliance of England,
France, and Russia
(b) Belgium (c) Austria
(c) Russian Revolution in
1917
(d) Czechoslovakia
33. Which among the following was the single most important factor in the victory of the Allied powers in World War II?
(b) US entry in 1917 (d) Axis Powers
34. Who among the given were called the “November Criminals”?
(a) Bolsheviks (b) Jews (c) Nazis (d) Socialist, Catholics and Democrats
35. Who were the “Desirable”?
(a) Nordic German
Aryans
(b) Jews (c) Indo-Aryans
36. Who among the following topped the list of “Undesirables”?
(a) Black (b) Jews (c) Gypsies
37. Which of the given party came to be known as the Nazi party?
(a) German Worker’s (b) Socialist (c) Nationalist Socialist
Party Democratic Party German Workers Party
(d) Gypsies
(d) Nordic Aryan
(d) Socialist Party
38. German defeat in World War I:
(a) Led to the establishment of
Weimar Republic
(b) Adoption of the declaration of the rights of man and citizens
39. What was not a factor in rise of Hitler?
(a) Disgrace at Versailles (b) Nazi propaganda and Hitler’s charismatic leadership
(c) Establishment of the
Nazi rule
(c) Weimer Republic
(d) Restoration of Monachy
(d) Years of Depression and economic crises

40. Which of the following was the treaty signed by Germany after its defeat in World War I?
(a) Treaty of Paris (b) Treaty of Versailles (c) Brest Litovsk
41. Which of the following was the immediate factor for the Great Depression (1929 – 1932)
(a) Collapse of the Wall
Street Exchange
(b) Financial impact of the World War I
(c) Fall in US exports
42. Which of the following was not the style of the new Nazi style of politics?
(a) Massive rallies (b) Ritualised applause
(c) Red banner with the
Swastika
43. Hitler’s ideas of racialism were based on which of the thinkers?
(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Charles Darwin
44. Which was not the feature of the Jew stereotype?
(a) Weak and degenerate
(b) Vermin and rats (c) Foreign agents
45. Which of the following was not a part of Hitler’s policies to exclude Jews?
(a) Exclusion
46. What was Jungvolk?
(b) Ghettoisation (c) Assimilation
(a) Nazi youth group for the children below 14
(b) Nazi youth group for the children
(c) It was another name for the Youth league years above 14 years
47. Which of the following was the most feared security force was the Nazi state?
(a) Storm troopers (b) Protection squads (c) Gestapo
(d) Dawes plan
(d) Collapse of the banks
(d) Not so powerful speeches of Hitler
(d) Rousseau
(d) Generous and charitable
(d) Annihiliation
(d) It referred to the undesirable German children
(d) Security services
48. Hitler’s world view was based on the concept of:
(a) Charles Darwin (b) Herbert Spencer (c) Lebensraum (d) One nation, one empire, and one leader
49. Which of the following was not true of Nazi state and women?
(a) Equal rights for men (b) Women were (c) All mothers were not and women socially different from men treated equally
50. Which of the following is not true of the ordinary people in Nazi Germany?
(a) Majority of the (b) They were scared (c) Majority genuinely
Germans were passive onlookers to act, to differ, to protest believed Nazism would bring prosperity and well being
(d) They had to bearers of the Aryan culture and race
(d) Every German was a Nazi
51. Which of the following country was not an Axis Power?
(a) Germany (b) Italy (c) France (d) Japan
52. Which of the following country was not an allied power?
(a) USSR (b) USA (c) France (d) Japan
53. Which of the following combination of power is the correct combination of the Allies in the First World War?
(a) England, France, (b) England, France (c) England, France and (d) England, France and Belgium and Russia and Germany Austria
54. Actions of Germany which raised serious moral and ethical questions and were condemned throughout the world were called:
(a) Crimes against peace (b) War crimes (c) Crimes against humanity (d) Crimes against other countries

55. Genocidal is :
(a) Killing of political leaders on large scale
(b) Killing of the religious leaders on large scale
(c) Killing of army of the enemy on large scale
56. What was the name of the German parliament in Weimar’s Republic?
(a) Lok Sabha (b) Senate (c) Reichstag
(d) Killing on large scale leading to the destruction of large section of the people
(d) Congress
57. Who were the supporters of the Weimar Republic in Germany and were called the “November criminals”?
(a) Socialists, Catholics (b) Socialists, (c) Socialists, Catholics and (d) Socialists, Catholics and Spartacists and Nazis Catholics and
Democrats
Republicans
58. Who founded the Communist Party of Germany?
(a) Spartacists (b) Communists (c) Socialists
59. Which of the following is the correct definition of the hyperinflation?
(a) A situation when the prices of the grains rise phenomenally high
(b) A situation when the prices rise phenomenally high
(c) A situation when unemployment increased phenomenally high
60. Which country did intervene to bail Germany out of the economic crisis and how?
(a) France by introducing (b) Britain by (c) The USA intervened and
Dawes plan introducing
Marshall Plan bailed Germany out of the economic crisis by introducing the Dawes
Plan
(d) Catholics
(d) A situation when the country cannot repay her loan
(d) Russia by introducing Marshall Plan
61. How many shares were sold on 24 Oct 1929 in Wall Street Exchange in USA?
(a) 16 million (b) 14 million (c) 15 million (d) 13 million
62. Which statement is true about the effect of proportional representation under the Weimar Republic in Germany?
(a) Achieving a majority (b) It was most (c) It led to stable (d) It enabled the Nazis to secure majority by any one party a near impossible task democratic and successful governments in Parliament
63. Which of the promises was not made by Hitler?
(a) Promise to undo the (b) Promise to injustice of the Treaty of Versailles employment for those looking for the work
(c) To weed out all foreign influence in Germany
(d) To set up a Constituent Assembly
64. When was the fire decree issued suspending the Civic rights?
(a) 28 Feb 1933 (b) 28 Feb 1932 (c) 28 Feb 1934
65. Which group of the countries signed the Tripartite pact in September 1940?
(a) England, France and (b) Germany, Italy and (c) England, France and
USA Russia Japan
66. Which type of police was called Gestapo?
(a) State police (b) Federal police (c) Secret state police
(d) 28 Feb 1931
(d) Germany, Austria and Japan
(d) Reserved police

67. Why did US enter the Second World War?
(a) Because Japan (b) Because Italy bombed US base at
Pearl Harbour bombed US base at Pearl Harbour
(c) Because Germany bombed US base at
Pearl Harbour
68. In the racial hierarchy, which group of people were at the top?
(a) Jews (b) Nordic German
Aryans
(c) Europeans
(d) Because Russia bombed US base at
Pearl Harbour
(d) Others
69. Which of the following group of people was not undesirable?
(a) Impure Germans (b) Mentally unfit (c) Gypsies (d) Pure and healthy Nordic Aryans
70. Which of the following was not the concept of the geopolitical concept of Lebensraum or living space?
(a) New territories for settlement
(b) To enhance the area of the mother country
(c) To enhance the material resources and the power of the German nation
(d) To increase military power of Germany to conquer other areas
71. The Nazis justified imperial rule over conquered people by giving the following argument:
(a) Nordic German (b) The strongest race (c) Only pure races should
Aryans should survive would survive and the weak ones would perish survive
72. Which of the following qualities was not meant for boys in Nazi Germany?
(a) Aggressive (b) Masculine (c) To distance themselves from the Jews
73. Which of the following statements was not meant for the Jews in Nazi Germany?
(a) They were shown (b) They were referred (c) Their movements were with the flowing beard wearing Kaftans to as the vermin, rats and pests
74. Which of the following events was called the Holocaust? compared to those of rodents
(a) Japan’s attack on
Pearl Harbour
(b) The Nazi killing operations
75. Which was the historic blunder of Hitler?
(c) Germany’s invasion of
USSR
(a) To attack Poland in
September 1939
(b) To sign the
Tripartite Pact in
(c) To install the puppet regimes in a large part of
September 1940 Europe
76. The group of countries against whom Germany fought the First World War:
(a) England, France and
Russia
(b) England, Russia and Japan
(c) France, Russia and
Spain
77. Which one was the leading industrial area of Germany?
(a) Petrogard (b) St.Petersburg (c) Ruhr
(d) All of the above
(d) Steel hearted
(d) They were all dressed and educated community
(d) Germany’s invasion of Poland
(d) To attack Soviet Union in June 1941
(d) England, America and Japan
(d) None of these
78. Which group of the countries was known as the Axis powers during the Second World War?
(a) Germany , Japan and
USA
(b) Germany, UK and
France
(c) France, USSR and USA (d) Germany, Italy and Japan
79. Another name for the German Parliament is:
(a) Reichstag (b) Duma (c) Lira (d) Weimar

80. Where was Hitler born?
(a) France
81. The term Gestapo was used for:
(a) Secret state police
(b) Austria (c) Japan
(b) Secret state laws (c) Criminal police
82. Hjalmar Schacht was a/an :
(a) Musician (b) Parliamentarian
83. The Second World War broke out in the year:
(a) 1939 (b) 1940
84. The ideology founded by Hitler came to be known as:
(a) Socialism (b) Capitalism
(c) Economist
(c) 1945
(c) Nazism
(d) Israel
(d) Security service
(d) Thinker
(d) 1949
(d) Hitlerism
85. Hyperinflation refers to a situation when:
(a) Anarchy prevails (b) Price rise phenomenally high
(c) Prices do not rise at all (d) Prices stagnate
86. What were Ghettos?
(a) Political organisations (b) Areas where Jews lived
(c) Playgrounds of German children
87. Who among the following was assigned the responsibility of the economic recovery Hitler?
(a) Goebbels (b) Hindenburg (c) Hjalmar Schacht
88. Which Nazi Youth Organisation was consisted of all German boys of 14 to 18 years of age?
(a) Hitler youth (b) Jungvolk (c) Labour service
(d) Schools of Jews
(d) Adam Smith
(d) Youth League
Important Questions
1. When did Germany surrender to the Allies?
2. Why was the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg set up?
3. For what is Auschwitz known for?
4. Which countries are known as the Allies during the Second World War?
5. What is German Parliament called?
6. How much amount Germany had to pay as the compensation to other countries?
7. What is the name of the republic that was established in Germany after the First World War?
8. Who were called the November Criminals?
9. When and why France occupied the industrial area of Rurh?
10. What is meant by Hyper-inflation?
11. When began the Great Economic Depression?
12. What is meant by Proletarianisation?
13. What was the Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution?
14. Which were the main causes of Hitler’s rise to power?
15. What was the name of German Parliament?
16. What is meant by concentration camp?
17. Which act established dictatorship in Germany?
18. Which person was given the responsibility of economic discovery?
19. When did Hitler pull his country out of the League of Nations?
20. When did Hitler or Germany invade Poland?
21. When was the Tripartite Pact signed and between which countries?
22. When did Hitler attack Soviet Union?

23. Where did Soviet Red Army inflict a crushing defeat on Germany?
24. When did the bombing of Hiroshima take place?
25. Who was Charles Darwin?
26. According to Hitler, which community was the first and which people were at the lowest level?
27. What type of society did the Nazis want to have?
28. What is meant by Nordic German Aryans?
29. Which communities were declared as undesirable or racial inferiors by Hitler or Nazi Germany?
30. Why did the Christians hate Jews?
31. How were the Poles treated by the Nazis?
32. What are Synagogues?
33. How were the children taught in Germany under the Nazis?
34. Where was the Youth League founded and what new name was given to it after four years?
35. What was the Nazi cult of motherhood?
36. What was the name given to the mass killing of Jews?
37. What was meant by Evacuation by the Nazis?
38. What were the gas chambers called?
39. What was the most infamous film used to exterminate the Jews?
40. What was National Socialism?
41. What was the name given to the Nazi killing operations?
42. What was the advice given by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler?
43. When was the battle of Britain fought? Which were the parties in the battle?
44. What do you mean by the Second front in the Second World War?
45. Name the countries which were occupied by Germany between 1937 and 1939?
46. When and by whom was the Munich Pact signed?
47. What were the two main characteristics of Fascist and the Nazi movement?
48. What is meant by the economic Depression of 1929?
49. What is referred as Fascism in history? Mention two Fascist powers which existed during the Second World War.
50. Give the name of the book written by Hitler. Mention two ideas expressed by Hitler in the book.
51. How did US help Germany to overcome 1923 financial crisis?
52. Name four countries included in the Allied powers in World War II.
53. Which countries were known as the Axis Powers in World War II?
54. List the single most important factor for the victory of the Aliies in World War II.
55. What factors enabled the recast of Germany’s political system after World War I?
56. What was the German Parliament called?
57. How were the deputies of Reichstag appointed?
58. How did the Republic Germany get its name?
59. Why was Weimar Republic not well received by the people of Germany?
60. Who were called the November criminals?
61. Mention two important clauses of the Treaty of Versailles.
62. When and between whom was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
63. What does the term Great Economic Depression signify?
64. After which organization was the Nazi party renamed?
65. What was the significance of the Enabling Act?
66. What were the provisions and the significance of Fire Decree (Feb 28, 1933)?
67. How did Hitler propose to bring about economic recovery in Germany?
68. Which concept of Hitler’s ideology revealed his desire for an extended empire?
69. What was the Nazi argument for their imperialist ambition?
70. Who were the supporters of the Nazi ideology?
71. Give two steps taken by the Weimar republic in 1923, to acquire political stability in Germany.
72. What is meant by the term appeasement? Who adopted it towards whom?
73. What was the reason behind the western powers following a policy of appeasement towards Germany in the years before World War II?
74. What marked the beginning of World War II?
75. Who were the signatories of 1940 Tripartite Pact?
76. Why Hitler’s attack on Soviet Union is in 1941 regarded a historic blunder?

77. Name some countries which became the victims of Hitler’s aggressive policy.
78. What was the immediate cause for American entry in World War II?
79. Mention the major events of 1941 that turned the war into the global war.
80. Which country used atomic bombs during World War II?
81. Hitler’s ideas on racialism were based on which thinkers?
82. Who according to Hitler topped the racial hierarchy? Who formed the lowest rung of hierarchy?
83. Who according to the Nazis were the desirables?
84. Who were regarded as the undesirables during the Nazi regime?
85. How did the common people react to the Nazi behavior and propaganda of Jews?
86. What does the term Holocaust refer to?
87. What was Hitler’s World view?
88. What does the term Genocidal War refer to?
89. List three stages leading to the extermination of Jews.
90. What did Nazis fear most after the fall and death of Hitler?
91. Where and when did Hitler and his propaganda minister Goebbels commit suicide?
92. Why did Germany attack Poland?
93. What were its consequences?
94 Why did Germany want Sudentenland?
95 When did the Second World War end in Europe?
96 Why was the International Military Tribunal set up in Nuremburg and for what did it prosecute the Nazis?
97. How did the Jews feel in Nazi Germany?
98 The retribution meted out to the Nazis after World War II was far short in extent of their crimes. Why?
99 Discuss the importance of the Battle of Stalingard in the Second World War.
100 Explain the monstrous nature of Nazi rule in Germany.
101. Why did USA enter the Second World War?
102. Why was the Munich Pact considered as the last act of appeasement by Western Powers?
103. With the reference to the First World War answer the following questions:
(i)
(ii)
Name the members of the Axis Powers
Name the members of the Allies.
(iii) Name the Treaty which was signed between the Allies and Germany after the First World War.
104. Name the act through which dictatorship was established in Germany. Mention its two features.
105. Who was Hjalmar Schacht? What was his theory regarding the economic recovery?
106. Name four countries that were occupied or attacked by Germany between 1936 to 1945.
107. Why were the Jews classified as the undesirable by Nazis? Name any two other races or people who were considered undesirable or inferior in Germany.
108. (i) Define Holocaust.
(ii) When was the Tripartite Pact signed? What was its importance?
109. The First World War left a deep imprint on the European society and polity.’ Explain by giving four examples.
110. Mention the 4 major terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
Or
“The Treaty of Versailles was harsh and humiliating”. Justify by giving four terms of the treaty.
111. Explain the impact of the Great Economic Depression on Germany.
Or
How was the Great Economic Depression responsible for the rise of Nazism?
112. “The First World War had the devastating impact on the entire Europe both psychologically and financially.” Explain
113. Explain the Great Depression of 1929.
114. Explain the reconstruction policy of Hitler.
Or
What steps were taken by Hitler to reconstruct Germany?
115. Mention any four steps taken by Nazis to implement their dream of creating of creating an exclusive racial community of pure German.
116. “The crimes that Nazis committed were linked to a system of belief and a set of practices.”Explain by giving examples.
117. Explain the racial policy of Hitler or Nazis.
118. Explain Hitler or Nazi policy towards the Jews.
119. “Hitler was fanatically interested in the youth of the country. He felt that a strong Nazi society could be established only by teaching children

the Nazi ideology.” Explain any four steps taken by Hitler to achieve his aim.
120. Explain the reaction of ordinary people regarding the policies of Nazism.
121. What was the impact of the First World War on the political system of Germany?
122. Explain the problems faced by Weimar Republic.
123. Discuss why Nazism became popular in Germany by 1930.
124. What were the peculiar features of Nazi thinking?
125. Explain why the Nazi propaganda was effective in creating a hatred for the Jews.
126. Write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the role women in Nazi society and French Revolution.
127 In what ways did the Nazi state seek to establish a total control over its people?
128. What do you mean by the Genocidal war? Which country waged it during World War II? What were its results? What action was taken against those responsible for it?
129. Describe the effects of the World War I on European society.
130. What were the effects of the great economic depression on the German economy?
131. Write a short note on the Great Economic Depression of 1929-1932 in USA.
132. Who was assigned the responsibility of economic recovery by Hitler? What steps were taken by him? Why was he removed?
133. Describe the foreign policy of Hitler.
134. Describe the circumstances leading to the entry of USA in Second World War.
135. Describe the traditional Christian hostility towards Jews. How did it differ from Hitler’s hatred for Jews?
136. Describe the role of youth organizations in the Nazi Germany.
137. Describe the policy in Nazi Germany towards women who produced desirable children.
138 Describe the Nazi policy towards schools.
139. Describe the art of propaganda of Nazi regime.
140. How did the common people react to Nazism?
141. Write any four provisions Treaty of Versailles. Why do you consider it a harsh treaty?
142. What were the factors that led to hyperinflation in Germany?
143. Write a brief note on International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg.
144. Mention any three events that led to the destruction of democracy in Germany.
145. What promises did Hitler make to the people of Germany?
146. How did Hitler influence the people of Germany?
147. When was the enabling act passed? What were its provisions?
148. USA initially resisted involvement in the Second World War, but it could not stay out of war for long. Why?
149. The swastika belonged to which of the parties?
150. Who was the head of the Nazi party? Throw light on his personality.
151. Read the following extract taken from the chapter and answer the questions that follow:
“Hitler at Nuremberg Party Rally, 8 th September 1934 also said:
The woman is the most stable element in the preservation of a folk …… she has the most unerring sense of everything that is important to not let a race disappear because it is her children who would be affected by all this suffering in the first place. That is why we have integrated the woman in the struggle of the racial community just as the nature and the providence have determined so.”
(a) Give the views of Hitler on women.
(b) “ Hitler favored women in the struggle of the racial community.” Is it true or false?
(c) Who would be affected by the suffering in the first place?
152. What were the main features of Nazism?
153. “All the boys between the ages of six and ten went through a preliminary training in the Nazi ideology. At the end of the training they had to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler: In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Fuhrer I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the savior of the country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God.”
(a) At which age were the boys given a preliminary training in Nazi ideology?
(b) What was the oath taken by the boys at the end of their training?
(c) To whom was the oath addressed?
154. How did the Great Economic Depression of 1929-1934, affect Germany?
155. Write a short note on how the common people reacted to the Nazi ideology against Jews.
156. Briefly describe the economic policy and reforms under Hitler’s Germany.
157. What were the provisions of the enabling act?
158. What was the new style of politics devised by Hitler?
159. What were the methods used by Nazis to exterminate the Jews?

160. Discuss the reasons that led to the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
161. What are the chief sources of information about Holocaust?
Or
How did the world come to know about the Holocaust?
162. State any three results of the surrender of German armies on 7 th April 1945.
163. List any four causes which led to World War II.
164. What was the impact of the Great Depression on US?
165. What was the affect of Nazism on Germany?
166. Explain any two problems faced by the Weimar Republic from the beginning.
167. Briefly discuss the impact of the Great Depression in US in 1929.
168. Discuss the main causes behind the entry of USA in World War II.
169. How far do you agree with the view that the Peace Treaty of Versailles was harsh and humiliating for Germany which led to the rise of
Nazism?
170. Describe the problems faced by the Weimar Republic.
171. Discuss why Nazism became popular in Germany in 1930.
172. What are the peculiar features of Nazi Germany?
Or
What are the main features of Nazism?
173. Explain why Nazi propaganda was effective in creating hatred in Jews?
174. Explain what role did women have in Nazi society?
175. Write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the role of women in the two periods.
176. In what ways did the Nazi state seek to establish total control over the people?
177. Mention the important consequences of Nazism on Germany.
Or
Mention three effects of Nazi rule on Germany.
178. “On 30 th January 1933, President Hidenburg offered the Chancellorship, the highest position in the cabinet of ministers to Hitler. By now, the
Nazis had managed to rally the conservatives to their cause. Having acquired power, Hitler set out to dismantle the structures of the democratic rule.”
Explain how Hitler dismantled the democratic structure?
179. Explain Hitler’s foreign policy.
180. Explain Hitler or Nazis policy towards youth.
Or
What steps were taken by Hitler to popularize Nazi ideology?
181. Explain Hitler’s policy towards women.
182. Explain the Nazis or Hitler’s art of propaganda.
183. What happened in Hitler’s racial state?
Or
How did Hitler establish racial state in Germany?
184. Give a brief assessment of Hitler’s rise to power.
185. Describe the problems faced by the Weimar Republic.
186. How did Hitler try to establish a racial state in Germany?
187. Give the impact of the First World War on Europe.
188. What are the peculiar features of Nazi thinking?
189. What drastic steps were taken by Hitler after he became the dictator of German?
190. What was the impact of the Great Economic Depression on the German economy?
191. Describe the main provision of Treaty of Versailles.
192. What steps did Hitler take to systematically destroy democracy?
193. How did Great Depression originate in USA? How did it affect the US economy?
194. Give the description of schools under Nazism.
195. Nazis/Hitler sought to create a pure German state. Justify giving examples.