Question 1. Question 11.
The Great Depression was a period of _______ . What was Auschwitz ?
Answer: Answer:
Economic crisis Auschwitz was the centre for mass killing during Nazi
rule.
Question 2.
What is the German Parliament known as ? Question 12.
Answer: What was the original name of Nazi party ?
The German Parliament is known as the Reichstag. Answer:
The National Socialist German Workers Party.
Question 3.
A camp where people were isolated and detained Question 13.
without due process of law, referred to as _______ . The gas chambers that looked like bathrooms,
Answer: equipped with fake shower heads, were labelled as
Concentration camp _______ .
Answer:
Disinfection areas
Question 4.
Which Article of the Weimar Constitution gave the
President the powers to impose emergency, suspend Question 14.
civil rights and rule by decree ? How did Hitler view war ?
Answer: Answer:
Article 48 Hitler viewed war as the way out of the approaching
economic crisis.
Question 5.
Who offered the chancellorship to Hitler on 30 Question 15.
January 1933 ? When was the Enabling Act passed in Germany ?
Answer: Answer:
President Hindenburg On 3rd March, 1933
Question 6. Question 16.
People of Weimar Republic lost confidence in the Name the four countries included in the Allied Powers
democratic _______ . in World War II.
Answer: Answer:
Parliamentary system England, France, Russia and USA were included in
the Allied Powers.
Question 7.
The Nazi Party had become largest party by _______ . Question 17.
Answer: What was the significance of the Enabling Act ?
1932 Answer:
The Enabling Act enabled Hitler to sideline the
Parliament and rule by decree.
Question 8.
The Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany,
Japan and _______ . Question 18.
Answer: Which concept of Hitler’s ideology revealed his desire
Italy for an extended empire ?
Answer:
The geopolitical concept or concept of living space
Question 9. revealed his desire for an extended empire.
Nazi propaganda projected _______ .
Answer:
Hitler as a messiah Question 19.
Which country used atomic bombs during World War
II ?
Question 10. Answer:
Nazi youth groups for children below 14 years of age USA used atomic bombs during World War II against
were called _______ . Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Answer:
Jungvolk
Question 20.
What was the work entrusted to the International
War Tribunal set up in Nuremberg after the war ?
Answer: harsh and humiliating peace. Explain the statement
It was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals for with any three examples.
crimes against peace, for war crimes and crimes Answer:
against humanity.
In the First World War, Germany was
Question 21. defeated. The peace Treaty at Versailles with
What was the name given to separately marked the Allies was a harsh and humiliating peace.
areas where the Jews lived ?
Answer:
The separately marked areas where the Jews lived Germany lost its overseas colonies and also
were called ghettos. much of its territories in Europe.
Germany lost 75% of its iron and 26% of its
Question 22. coal to France and other countries.
Which incident persuaded the USA to join the war ?
Answer:
Japan’s unprovoked attack on the US base at Pearl The Allied Powers demilitarized Germany to
Harbour in December 1941 persuaded the USA to weaken its power. Germany was forced to pay
join the war. compensation amounting to £ 6 billion.
Question 23.
The Allied forces occupied the resources rich
Rhineland till the 1920s. (Any three)
What do you know about Wall Street Exchange ?
Answer:
It is the name of the world’s biggest stock exchange. Question 3.
Explain the three fold plan of Hitler becoming
Chancellor of Germany to consolidate the Nazi
Question 24. power.
Which countries were known as Axis Powers in World Answer:
War II ?
Answer:
Germany, Italy and Japan were known as Axis Hitler’s three fold plan comprised of capturing
Powers. the legal authority to rule, crushing the
country’s political opposition and eliminating
rivals within the party.
Question 25. In the pursuit of first, he used the Reichstag
When did Youth League of the Nazis found ? fire incident to clamp down the communists.
Answer: He armed himself with the emergency powers
The Youth League of the Nazis was founded in 1922. and murdered and jailed key communist
leaders and suppressed civil liberties.
Short Answer Type Questions In March 1933, the German Reichstag passed
the enabling laws which transferred all the
Question 1. powers from the Reichstag to the government
Trace any three main features of the foreign policy of headed by him.
Hitler.
Answer:
Further, Hitler turned his attention to the rival
political parties. He outlawed all existing and
potential opposition institutions. By July 1933,
On 30th January 1933, Hitler became the the Nazis were the only legitimate party in
Chancellor of Germany and established Germany.
dictatorship.
Question 4.
Right from the beginning, he followed a policy When did Hitler formally announce his violation of
of aggression and war towards other the Treaty of Versailles?
countries. What reason did he give for this?
Answer:
He pulled out of the League of Nations in
1933, reoccupied Rhineland in 1936 and
integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 Hitler formally announced his violation of the
under the slogan ‘One people, One empire, Treaty of Versailles in March 1935.
One leader’.
Hitler claimed that he was trying to make
Question 2. Germany equal in position to the other
The Peace Treaty at Versailles with the Allies was a European powers.
Since European nations had not followed the It also led to the militarism and preparation
policy of disarmament, German rearmament for the war.
was a necessity.
In Germany, all other political parties were
Question 5. banned except the Nazi Party.
What was the ideology of the Nazis regarding the
Jews?
Answer: Nazism opposed Socialism and Communism,
The ideology of the Nazis regarding the Jews were : so the advocates of these philosophies were
either jailed or killed.
All schools were cleansed and purified under Question 9.
Nazism. Those teachers were dismissed who Why did the USA show unwillingness to get involved
were found to be Jews or seen as politically in the Second World War initially ? Why did it change
unreliable. its attitude afterwards?
Answer:
The USA had resisted involvement in the war. It was
German and Jew children were not allowed to
unwilling to once again face all the economic
sit or play together. problems that the First World War had caused. But it
could not stay out of the war for long. Japan was
All the undesirable children—Jews, Gypsies, expanding its power in the east. It had occupied
and the physically handicapped were French Indo-China and was planning attacks on US
dismissed from schools and.Jinally were taken naval bases in the Pacific.
to gas chambers in the 1940s.
When Japan extended its support to Hitler and
Question 6. bombed the US base at Pearl Harbor, the US entered
What do you know about ‘Nazi schooling’? the Second World War. The war ended in May 1945
Answer: with Hitler’s defeat and the US dropping of the atom
All ‘Good German’ children were subjected to a bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.
prolonged period of ideological training—a process of
Nazi schooling. School textbooks were rewritten.
Racial science was introduced to justify Nazi ideas of
Question 10.
race. Children were taught to be loyal and
Why was the International Military Tribunal set up in
submissive, hate Jews, and worship Hitler. Even
Nuremberg at the end of the Second World War?
sports were used to nurture a spirit of violence and
Answer:
aggression among children. Hitler believed boxing
At the end of the Second World War the International
made children iron-hearted, strong and masculine.
Military Tribunal was set up in Nuremberg to
prosecute Nazi War Criminals. The Tribunal
prosecuted the Nazi’s for crimes against Peace, for
Question 7. War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. However,
What was the Nazis ideology regarding motherhood? the Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven
Answer: leading Nazis to death. Many other imprisoned for
In Nazi Germany, children were repeatedly told that life.
women were radically different from men. It was
preached that the fight for equal rights for men and
women was wrong and it would destroy the society.
The boys were taught to be aggressive, masculine
and steel-hearted. The girls were taught to become
good mothers. They were supposed to rear pure-
blooded Aryan children and maintain the purity of the
race. They had to distance themselves from Jews,
look after the home, and over and above teach their
children the Nazi values.
Question 8.
What were the results of the victory of Nazism in
Germany ?
Answer:
The victory of Nazism in Germany led to the
destruction of democracy and establishment
of dictatorship.
