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Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

What does the Reichstag mean?

  1. German Coin

  2. German. State

  3. German Parliament

  4. German Currency
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The defeat of Imperial Germany and the abdication of the emperor gave an opportunity to the Parliamentary parties to recast the German polity. National Assembly met at Weimar and established a democratic constitution with a federal structure.

Deputies were now elected to the German Parliament which was known as Reichstag.

Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

Consider the following statements and Identify the correct response from the options given thereafter: 


Statement I : Nazism became a mass movement after the Great Depression. 

Statement II : After 1929, banks collapsed and businesses shut down, workers lost their jobs and the middle classes were threatened with destitution.

  1. Statement I is false and Statement II is true

  2. Statement I is true and Statement II is false

  3. Both Statement I and Statement II are true and Statement II is the correct explanation of Statement I

  4. Both Statement I and Statement II are true but Statement ll is not the correct explanation of Statement I
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C Correct answer
Explanation
 In such a situation Nazi propaganda stirred hopes of a better future. In 1928, the Nazi Party got no more than 2. 6 per cent votes in the Reichstag – the German parliament. By 1932, it had become the largest party with 37 per cent votes.
Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

Who were regarded as desirable by Nazis?

  1. Pure and healthy Nordic Aryans

  2. German soldiers who helped in territorial expansion

  3. German police

  4. All those who were willing to consider Hitler as God
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A Correct answer
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’. This meant that even those Germans who were seen as impure or abnormal had no right to exist. 

Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

Hitlers world view, which was also the Nazi ideology, was _________________.

  1. There was no equality between people, only a racial hierarchy

  2. The blond, blue eyed, Nordic German Aryans were at the top and Jews at the bottom. The coloured people were placed in between

  3. Jews were the antirace, the arch enemies of the Aryans

  4. All the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Nazi ideology was built on a racial hierarchy that placed Aryans at the top and deemed Jews as the 'anti-race' or arch-enemies, while also discriminating against other groups.

Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

Why did Helmuts father kill himself in the spring of 1945?

  1. He was depressed by Germanys defeat in Second World War

  2. He feared that common people would mishandle him and his family

  3. He feared revenge by the Allied Powers

  4. He wanted to die because of the crimes he had committed during Nazi rule
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Many Nazi officials and their families feared severe retribution and revenge from the Allied Powers following the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945.

Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

Which of the following was a feature of Hitlers foreign policy?

  1. He pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933

  2. He decided not to attack any country

  3. He thanked the Allied Powers for having put Germany on the right track

  4. All the above
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A Correct answer
Explanation

 He pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933, reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936, and integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan, One people, One empire, and One leader. 

Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

After loss in the World War I, the Great Economic Depression of 1929 also badly affected _____.

  1. Russia

  2. Germany

  3. France

  4. India
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The Great Economic Depression of 1929 had a devastating impact on the German economy, which was already struggling with war reparations and inflation, leading to political instability.

Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

Germany's genocidal war was against which of the following people?

  1. Jews and political opponents

  2. Gypsies and Polish civilians

  3. Germans who were considered mentally and physically disabled

  4. All the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Under the shadow of the Second World War, Germany had waged a genocidal war, which resulted in the mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians of Europe. The number of people killed included 6 million Jews, 200,000 Gypsies, 1 million Polish civilians, 70,000 Germans who were considered mentally and physically disabled, besides innumerable political opponents. 

Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

The ___ was seen as a major rival by the Nazi Party during the years of Weimar Germany.

  1. Communist Party

  2. Centre Party

  3. Democratic Party

  4. Social Democrats
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The Nazi Party viewed the Communist Party (KPD) as their primary political rival in the Weimar Republic. The intense ideological conflict between the far-right Nazis and the far-left Communists was a defining feature of the era.