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Questions Related to history

According to the Nazis, which treaty was against Germany?

  1. Treaty of Versailles

  2. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  3. Treaty of Germany

  4. Treaty of Nations


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  • The Nazis were nationalists and believed that Germany was a great country that had been humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles.
  • They aimed to make Germany great again by expanding beyond the borders drawn by Versailles.

Who among the following was assigned the responsibility of economic recovery by Hitler?

  1. Goebbels

  2. Hindenburg

  3. Hjalmar Schacht

  4. Adam Smith

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Hitler assigned the responsibility of economic recovery to the economist Hjalmar Schacht who aimed at full production and full employment through a state-funded work-creation programme. This project produced the famous German superhighways and the people’s car, the Volkswagen. 

Which of the following is the correct definition of the term Conscription?

  1. to build weapons such as tanks and bombs.

  2. the wilful destruction of property.

  3. acts of exceptional brutality and violence.

  4. the process of making all men join the army for a set time.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
  • Conscription is the process of making all men join the army for a set time.
  • In 1935, Hitler planned to reintroduce conscription in Germany though it was forbidden according to the Treaty of Versailles.

The Nazi party became the largest party in Germany by ______.

  1. 1930

  2. 1931

  3. 1932

  4. 1933

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
In 1928, the Nazi Party got no more than 2. 6 percent votes in the Reichstag – the German parliament. By 1932, it had become the largest party with 37 percent votes.

When did Hitler join the German Workers Party?

  1. 1918

  2. 1919

  3. 1920

  4. 1921

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 In 1919, he joined a small group called the German Workers Party. He subsequently took over the organisation and renamed it the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. This party came to be known as the Nazi Party.