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Nazism and the Rise of Hitler (Class - IX)

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Which of the following were the Axis Powers against whom the Allies had fought in the World War II?

a. Germany b. Italy c. Japan d. USSR

  1. a, b, c and d

  2. a, b and c

  3. a, b and d

  4. a, c and d

  5. a and c


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as the Axis Powers against whom the Allies had fought the WW II were Germany, Italy and Japan.

Which of the following best explains Genocidal war?

  1. A war in which civilians are killed.

  2. A war in which civilians are sent to fight.

  3. A war in which weapons of mass destruction are used.

  4. A war in which mass killings of particular sections of people take place.

  5. A war in which large sections of people based on their ethnicity are sent to fight in the trenches.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as in a Genocidal war, mass killings on a large scale leading to destruction of large sections of people take place.

Which of the following is/are correct about the War Guilt Clause on Germany by the Allies after the World War I?

  1. It held Germany responsible for the war and damages the Allied countries suffered.

  2. Germany was forced to pay compensation amounting to £6 billion under this.

  3. A watchdog organisation called Free Corps was formed to oversee Germany.

  4. All of the above

  5. Both 1 and 2


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as both these options are correct about the War Guilt Clause.

Which of the following is correct about the Enabling Act?

  1. It gave Chancellorship of Germany to Hitler.

  2. It demilitarised Germany.

  3. It indefinitely suspended civic rights in Germany.

  4. It legalised the Gestapo, the SS, criminal police and the Security Service.

  5. It established dictatorship in Germany.


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as on 3 March 1933, the famous Enabling Act was passed which established dictatorship in Germany.

Which of the following is correct about Auschwitz?

  1. The International Military Tribunal was set up at Auschwitz to sentence Nazis for war crimes.

  2. Hitler, his propaganda minister Goebbels and his entire family committed suicide collectively in a bunker in Auschwitz.

  3. A National Assembly met at Auschwitz and established a democratic constitution after the WW I.

  4. Auschwitz was the headquarters of the Gestapo and the SS.

  5. Auschwitz was a concentration camp and killing centre operated by the Nazis.


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as Auschwitz was a concentration camp and killing centre operated by the Nazis.

What did the Dawes Plan intend to do?

  1. It was a plan under which Germany could pay back the compensation amount set by Allies after the World War I.

  2. It was a plan under which passive resistance by Germany in Rhur took place where the Germans printed paper currency recklessly.

  3. It was a financial plan suggested by the creditors through which Germany could make reparations for the loans taken in World War I.

  4. It was a bailout plan by Americans which reworked the terms of reparation to ease the financial burden on Germans.

  5. It was the package of short term loans made by Soviet industrialists for bringing out Germany from the Great Economic Depression in the 1930s.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. 

Which of the following statements about Hitler is/are correct?

a. Hitler was born in Bavaria in 1889. b. He became a Corporal in the First World War. c. He joined the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1919 and renamed it the Nazi Party.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. a and b

  5. a, b and c


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct. 

In which year did Germany pull out of the League of Nations?

  1. 1919

  2. 1923

  3. 1933

  4. 1936

  5. 1938


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Hitler pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933 according to his foreign policy.

Which of the following is correct about Reichstag?

  1. A National Assembly met at Reichstag after the defeat of Imperial Germany and the abdication of the emperor in the WWII.

  2. The revolutionary uprising of the Spartacist League took place at Reichstag after the birth of the Weimar Republic.

  3. Reichstag was the site of the millions of killing camps of the Nazis during the WW II.

  4. Deputies were voted in the Reichstag on the basis of equal and universal votes cast by all adults including women.

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is correct. Reichstag was the German Parliament of the Weimer Republic where deputies were voted on the basis of equal and universal votes cast by all adults including women.

Which of the following is correct about 'ghettos'?

  1. From 1933 to 1938, the Nazis terrorised, pauperised and segregated the Jews and they lived in 'ghettos'.

  2. From 1939-1945, Nazis aimed at concentrating Jews in certain areas and eventually killing them in gas chambers called 'ghettos'.

  3. Jews were barred from owning land since medieval times and lived in separately marked areas called 'ghettos'.

  4. Poles were forced to leave their homes and properties behind to be occupied by ethnic Germans, brought in from occupied Europe and had to live in a defined area called 'ghetto'.

  5. Polish children who looked like Aryans were forcibly snatched from their mothers and examined by ‘race experts and if they passed the race tests, they were raised in specifies areas called 'ghettos'.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The Jews had been stereotyped as killers of Christ and usurers since medieval times and the separately marked areas where they lived were called 'ghettos'.

Which of the following countries signed the Tripartite Pact in 1940?

  1. Japan, Russia and Germany

  2. Italy, Britain and France

  3. Britain, France and Japan

  4. Britain, France and Russia

  5. Germany, Italy and Japan


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

The Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan in 1940.

Jews from different parts of Europe were brought to death factories by goods trains. Which of the following was not a death factory?

  1. Belzek

  2. Sobibor

  3. Treblinka

  4. Duesseldorf

  5. Majdanek


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Duesseldorf was a small city from where communists and other undesirables were transported to concentration camps.

Which country was responsible for the entrance of USA in the Second World War?

  1. Germany

  2. Italy

  3. USSR

  4. Japan

  5. China


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Japan attacked the Pacific naval base of USA in Pearl Harbour and was responsible for USA joining the Second World War.

Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?

a. Gas chambers were labelled ‘disinfection-areas'. b. Disinfection meant deporting people to gas chambers. c. Mass killings were termed special treatment, final solution (for the Jews), euthanasia (for the disabled) and selection.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. a and c

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as this statement is incorrect.

'Honour Crosses' were awarded for which of the following under Hitler's rule?

  1. To Germans who alerted the secret police to the presence of Jews and undesirables

  2. To citizens who reported Germans' who were involved in organising active resistance to Nazism

  3. To women who produced many racially desirable children

  4. To children for participating in the Jungvolk and promoting the spirit of national socialism

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. To encourage women to produce many children, Honour Crosses were awarded. 

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