1. Allies – The Allied Powers were initially led by the UK and France. In which year they were joined by the USSR and USA?
a) 1938
b) 1940
c) 1941
d) 1942
Answer. c) 1941
Allies – The Allied Powers were initially led by the UK and France. In 1941 they were joined by the USSR and the USA.
2. Which countries were not part of the Axis Powers?
a) Germany
b) Italy
c) Japan
d) China
Answer. d) China
Axis Powers, namely Germany, Italy, and Japan.
3. Which tribunal was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals for Crimes against Peace, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity after the end of the Second World War?
a) Hitler Tribunal
b) Goebbels Tribunal
c) Nuremberg Tribunal
d) Humanity Tribunal
Answer. c) Nuremberg Tribunal;
At the end of the war, an International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals for Crimes against Peace, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity.
Germany had waged a genocidal war, which resulted in the mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians in Europe. The number of people killed included 6 million Jews, 200,000 Gypsies, 1 million Polish civilians, and 70,000 Germans who were considered mentally and physically disabled.
4. What was the timeline of the First World War?
a) 1913-1918
b) 1914-1918
c) 1915-1919
d) 1915-1920
Answer. b) 1914-1918
5. Which of the following was not part of the Central Powers in the First World War?
a) Russian Empire
b) Germany
c) Austria-Hungary
d) Turkey
Answer. a) Russian Empire
6. Which of the following country was not part of the Allies Power?
a) England
b) France
c) Russia
d) Japan
Answer. d) Japan
7. What was the Weimar Republic?
a) Russian Government
b) Germany's government from 1919 to 1933
c) Germany's government from 1933 to 1945
d) French government from 1919 to 1933
Answer. b) Germany's government from 1919 to 1933
8. The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed in
a) 1918
b) 1919
c) 1920
d) 1921
Answer. b) 1919
Versailles treaty was signed with the Allies was a harsh and humiliating peace. Germany lost its overseas colonies, a tenth of its population, 13 percent of its territories, 75 percent of its iron, and 26 percent of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark, and Lithuania.
9. What is the Ruhr region of Germany known for?
a) Bauxite Mines
b) Coal Mines
c) Gold Mines
d) Silver Mine
Answer. b) Coal Mines
10. What was the Dawes Plan ( 1924)?
a) Germany's annual reparation payments
b) Adopting the US dollar as German currency
c) Giving the Ruhr region to Russia
d) Taking Back the Ruhr region from Allies Power
Answer. a) Germany's annual reparation payments;
Americans intervened in the hyperinflation problem of Germany and bailed Germany out of the crisis by introducing the Dawes Plan, which reworked the terms of reparation to ease the financial burden on Germany.
11. The Wall Street Exchange crashed in which year?
a) 1923
b) 1929
c) 1932
d) 1940
Answer. b) 1929;
Wall Street Exchange – The name of the world’s biggest stock exchange located in the USA.
Over the next three years, between 1929 and 1932, the national income of the USA fell by half. Factories shut down, exports fell, farmers were badly hit and speculators withdrew their money from the market.
12. An anxiety of being reduced to the ranks of the working class, or worse still, the unemployed is known as
a) Sleeping Cell
b) Proletarianisation
c) Homeless men
d) Reparations
Answer. b) Proletarianisation;
Proletarianization – To become impoverished to the level of the working classes
13. Hitler was born in which Year?
a) 1889
b) 1899
c) 1900
d) 1901
Answer. a) 1889;
Hitler. Born in 1889 in Austria,
14. In which year Hitler joined a small group called the German Workers’ Party?
a) 1909
b) 1919
c) 1924
d) 1932
Answer. b) 1919;
In 1919, Hitler joined a small group called the German Workers’ Party. He subsequently took over the organization and renamed it the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. This party came to be known as the Nazi Party.
15. A camp where people were isolated and detained without due process of law was known as?
a) Gestapo
b) Duesseldorf
c) Concentration camp
d) Volkswagen
Answer. c) Concentration camp
Gestapo torture chambers (secret state police),
16. In which year, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a tripartite Pact, strengthening Hitler’s claim to international power?
a) 1938
b) 1939
c) 1940
d) 1941
Answer. c) In September, 1940
17. Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June-----.
a) 1938
b) 1939
c) 1940
d) 1941
Answer. d) 1941;
In this war of historic blunder, Hitler exposed the German western front to British aerial bombing and the eastern front to the powerful Soviet armies.
18. The Second World War ended in?
a) May 1945
b) June 1945
c) May 1946
d) June 1946
Answer. a) May 1945
The war ended in May 1945 with Hitler’s defeat and the US dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.
19. Which of the following is not Nazi Ideology?
a) there is no equality between people
b) blond, blue-eyed, Nordic German Aryans were at the top of the racial Hierarchy
c) Jews were located at the lowest rung of the racial hierarchy
d) All other colored people are considered the arch-enemies of the Aryans.
Answer. d) All other colored people are considered the arch-enemies of the Aryans.
All other colored people were placed in between depending on their external features. Jews are considered the arch-enemies of the Aryans.
However, Hitler’s hatred of Jews was based on pseudoscientific theories of race, which held that conversion was no solution to ‘the Jewish problem’. It could be solved only through their total elimination.
20. Hitler’s racism borrowed from thinkers
a) Charles Darwin
b) Herbert Spencer
c) Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer
d) None of the above
Answer. c) Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer
Darwin never advocated human intervention in what he thought was a purely natural process of selection.
21. The Concept of evolution and natural selection was given by
a) Charles Darwin
b) Herbert Spencer
c) Casimir Funk
d) Robert Hooke
Answer. a) Charles Darwin
22. The idea of "survival of the fittest" was given by
a) Charles Darwin
b) Herbert Spencer
c) Casimir Funk
d) Robert Hooke
Answer. b) Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer later added the idea of survival of the fittest. According to this idea, only those species survived on earth that could adapt themselves to changing climatic conditions.
23. Hitler’s ideology related to the geopolitical concept of?
a) Mein Kampf
b) Telford Taylor
c) Lebensraum
d) Nordic German Aryans
Answer. c) Lebensraum;
The other aspect of Hitler’s ideology related to the geopolitical concept of Lebensraum, or living space. As per the Lebensraum, concept, new territories had to be acquired for settlement. This would enhance the area of the mother country while enabling the settlers on new lands to retain an intimate link with the place of their origin.
24. As per Hitler, conversion was no solution and it could be solved only through total elimination, it was referred to as?
a) Loan default
b) Land Settlements
c) Jews
d) Gypsy
Answer. c) Jews
25. Match the following
List I
A. Gypsy
B. Pauperised
C. Usurers
D. Persecution
List II
1. Sinti and Roma were two such communities
2. Reduce to absolute poverty
3. Moneylenders charging excessive interest; often used as a term for abuse
4. Systematic, organized punishment of those belonging to a group or religion
Codes:
A B C D
a) 1 2 3 4
b) 2 1 4 3
c) 4 3 2 1
d) 1 3 2 4
Answer. a) 1 2 3 4
26. What was the Nuremberg Laws of Citizenship of September 1935?
a) antisemitic and racist laws
b) It was Jews's right in Germany
c) Citizenship Law of Russia
d) Citizenship Laws of Italy
Answer. a) antisemitic and racist laws
About The Nuremberg Laws of Citizenship of September 1935
Only Persons of German or related blood would henceforth be German citizens enjoying the protection of the German empire.
Marriages between Jews and Germans were forbidden.
Extramarital relations between Jews and Germans became a crime.
Jews were forbidden to fly the national flag
27. Nazi youth groups for children below 14 years of age were known as?
a) Nuremberg
b) Jungvolk
c) Ghetto
d) Pupils
Answer. b) Jungvolk
28. What was the official terms/word used by Nazis for the Mass killing of Jews?
a) special treatment, final solution
b) euthanasia
c) Evacuation
d) disinfection-areas
Answer. a) special treatment, final solution
29. What was the official terms/word used by Nazis for the Mass killing of the Disabled?
a) special treatment, final solution
b) euthanasia
c) Evacuation
d) disinfection-areas
Answer. b) euthanasia
30. What was the official terms/word used by Nazis for Gas Chambers?
a) special treatment, final solution
b) euthanasia
c) Evacuation
d) disinfection-areas
Answer. d) disinfection-areas
31. What was the official terms/word used by Nazis for deporting people to gas chambers?
a) special treatment, final solution
b) euthanasia
c) Evacuation
d) disinfection-areas
Answer. c) Evacuation
32. Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany in?
a) 1929
b) 1930
c) 1932
d) 1933
Answer. d) January 30, 1933
33. Mass murder of the Jews begins in
a) 1939
b) 1940
c) 1941
d) 1942
Answer. c) June 23,1941
34. Who wrote the book name "Third Reich of Dreams"
a) Hitler
b) Charlotte Beradt
c) Darwin
d) Friedrich Kubizek
Answer. b) Charlotte Beradt
Charlotte Beradt describes how Jews themselves began believing in the Nazi stereotypes about them. They dreamt of their hooked noses, black hair, and eyes, Jewish looks, and body movements.
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