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What is regarded as Hitler's historic blunder?
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Attack on Soviet Union in 1941 was a historic blunder by Hitler
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Attacking Poland in 1939
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Allying with Japan
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All the above
Which of the following was a feature of Hitler's foreign policy?
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He pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933
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He decided not to attack any country
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He thanked the Allied Powers for having put Germany on the right track
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All the above
Hitler acquired quick success in his foreign policy.
Which of the following was a special surveillance and security force created by Hitler?
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Regular police force in green uniform and storm troppers
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Gestapo (secret state police), the SS (the protection squads)
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Criminal police, (SD) the security service
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Both (b) and (c)
Before the rise of Hitler, regular police in green uniform and SA or Storm Troopers existed already. After coming into power Hitler created Secret state police known as the Gestapo, the protection squads known as the SS, criminal police, and the security service known as SD. It was the extra-constitutional powers of these newly organised forces that gave the Nazi state its reputation as the most dreaded criminal state.
Why treaty of Versailles (1920) signed at the end of World War I, was harsh and humiliating for Germany?
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Germany lost its overseas colonies, and 13 percent of its territories
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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.
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The western powers demilitarised Germany and they occupied resource-rich Rhineland in the 1920s
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All the above
Which of the following can best define Nazism?
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Hitler's determination to make Germany a great nation
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Extermination of Jews
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A system, a structure of ideas about the world and politics
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Hitler's ambition of conquering the world
Nazis felt that Jews were the traitors. They blamed Jews for conspiring with allies during the First World War. Nazis explained that the cause of the hardship of the Germans were the Jews who exploited the German economy. To turn out the Jews from Germany was the main feature of their ideology.
The following statements are about Hitler's early life. Which of them is incorrect?
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Hitler was born in 1889 in Austria and spent his youth in poverty
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He joined the army during World War I and earned accolades for bravery
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He was totally unaffected by German defeat in the war and only thought of improving his career
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In 1919 he joined a small group called the German Worker's Party, which later was known as the Nazi Party.
Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in Austria. His father was a Custom Officer. He spent his youth in poverty. During the First World War, he enrolled for the army, act as a messenger in the front, became corporal, and earned medals for bravery. The German defeat horrified him and the Versailles Treaty made him furious. In 1919, he joined a small group called the German Workers' Party. Later he took over this organisation and renamed it National Socialist German Workers' Party. This party came to be known as the Nazi Party.
Hitler brought out an agreement with Italy and Japan in _____.
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1934
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1936
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1937
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1940
Hitler brought out an agreement with Italy and Japan in September 1940. This agreement was known as "Tripartite Pact" which strengthened Hitler's claims to international power.
Which of the following was not true of Nazi State and women?
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Equal rights for men and women
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Women were socially different from men
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All mothers were not treated equally
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They had to be bearers of Aryan culture and race
Children in Nazi Germany were repeatedly told that women were radically different from men. It was told by Nazi's that the fight for equal rights for men and women was wrong and it would destroy society.
Which among the following topped the list of undesirables?
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Blacks
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Jews
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Gypsies
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Nordic Aryans
During the time of the Nazi region in Germany the society was divided into desirables and undesirables.The undesirables in Germany were mainly the Jews but other undesirables were Communist, Gypsies and Polish Christians. And desirables were Nordic Aryans.
Who were the 'desirables' in the Nazi Germany ?
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Nordic German Aryans
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Jews
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French
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Gypsies
The pure Aryan Nordic Germans were considered to be 'desirable' in the Nazi society. They had some distinguishing features like blue eyes and light hair. However, it did not include handicaps as they were considered 'undesirable'.