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Name the term that is used to define prejudice against Jewish people.

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  1. Aversion

  2. Anti-Semitism

  3. Discrimination

  4. Xenophobia

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • Anti-Semitism means prejudice against Jewish people. In the east, most Jews lived a more traditional life, speaking Yiddish and living in small villages.
  • They were separated from their neighbours because of anti-Semitism.

Which of the following was not a part of Hitler's policies to exclude Jews?

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  1. Exclusion

  2. Ghettoisation

  3. Assimiltion

  4. Annihilation

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Hitler excluded Jews in three stages. These were Exclusion, Ghettoisation, and Annihilation.

 In the first stage, he used the policy of  Exclusion from 1933-39. Under this, it was declared that Jews had no right to live among Germans as Citizens. Under this process, The Nuremberg Law of citizenship of September 1935 was declared. As per this law Jews had no right to get the protection of the German empire. 
At the second stage, the process of Ghettoisation was used which means Jew had no right to live among Germans. By this method, Jew had to wear a  yellow star of David on their breast. Their houses, passports and legal documents were stamped with an identity mark.

At the third stage, they used the method of Annihilation which means Jews had no right to live. This time Jews were brought to death factories by goods trains. In Poland and elsewhere in the east they were charred in gas chambers. The mass killing took place within minutes with scientific precision.

In 1919, ______ joined a small group called the German Workers' Party and took over the organisation and renamed it the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

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  1. Goebbels

  2. Adam Smith

  3. Helmuth

  4. Hitler

  5. None of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Adolf Hitler was enrolled for the army during the First World War. He acted as a messenger in the front and became a Corporal. He earned medals for his bravery. The German defeat horrified him and the Treaty of Versailles made him furious. Later in 1919, he joined a small group called the German Workers' Party. Workers of this party were called National Socialist. Then he took over this organisation and renamed it the National Socialist German Workers' Party. This party came to be known as the Nazi Party.

In which year was the National Socialist Party formed?

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  1. 1921

  2. 1919

  3. 1923

  4. 1920

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  • The National Socialist Party or the Nazis was formed in the year 1921. By 1923, Adolf Hitler was their leader.
  • The ideas of Nazism are documented in Hitler's book Mein Kampf.

What was the spoken language of Jewish people in Eastern Europe?

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  1. Hebrew

  2. Yiddish

  3. German

  4. Russian

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • In the east, most Jews lived a more traditional life, speaking Yiddish and living in small villages.
  • They were separated from their neighbours because of anti-Semitism.

Which of the following statements is true about the economic crisis in Germany in 1923?

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  1. The value of 'Mark' collapsed

  2. Prices of goods soared high

  3. Weimer Republic brought economic prosperity

  4. Both (a) and (b)

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Germany had fought the war largely on loans and had to pay war reparations in gold. This depleted gold reserves at a time resources were scarce. In 1923 Germany refused to pay and the French occupied its leading industrial area, Ruhr, to claim their coal. Germany retaliated with passive resistance and printed paper currency recklessly. With too much currency in circulation, the value of the German mark fell. As the value of Mark collapsed, prices of goods soared.

Name the movement started by the Jewish in order to save their children.

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  1. Kinderzeche

  2. Kindergarten

  3. Kindertransport

  4. Holocaust

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:
  • Once the Nazis where in power, things began to get very difficult for the Jewish population in Germany.
  • Between 1938 and outbreak of the war in 1939, Jewish parents began a movement to save their children. It was called Kindertransport or Childrens Transport.

The Allied Powers demilitarized Germany by the _________ to weaken its power. 

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  1. Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

  2. Treaty of Trianon

  3. Treaty of Versailles

  4. The Treaty of Svres

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Correct Option: C

Who among the following topped the list of 'undesirables'?

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  1. Gypsies

  2. Blacks

  3. Jews

  4. Aryans

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Nazis wanted only a society of ‘pure and healthy Nordic Aryans’. They alone were considered ‘desirable’. Only they were seen as worthy of prospering and multiplying against all others who were classed as ‘undesirable’.