Chapter 3 Nazims and The Rise of Hitler MCQ's & NCERT Solutions

Chapter 3 Nazims and The Rise of Hitler

CBSE BOARD Social Science 

Class 9 Social Science History

Multiple Choice Question (MCQs)

1. What was the name given to mass killings of the Jews under Hitler's regime?

(a) Holocaust

(b) Special Treatment

(c) November criminals

(d) None of these

2. Germany fought the First World War against

(a) England                 (c) Russia

(b) France                   (d) All of these

3. Name the incident that started the Second World War.

(a) The Treaty of Versailles

(b) Birth of the Weimar Republic

(c) Genocidal war

(d) Germany's attack on Poland 4. When was the Enabling Act passed in Germany?

(a) On 12th March 1933 

(b) On 3rd March 1933

(c) On 3rd February 1903

(d) On 14th March 1932

5. What was Auschwitz famous for? (a) Centre for mass killings during Nazi Germany

(b) Centre for educating children during Nazi Germany

(c) Centre for giving military training to the youth during Nazi Germany

(d) None of the above

6. On 30 January 1933 who offered the Chancellorship to Hitler?

(a) Soviet Red Army

(b) King Kaiser William II

(c) President Hindenburg

(d) Hjalmar Schacht

7. Who was Hjalmar Schacht?

 (a) Economist        (b) Chancellor

(c) German soldier  (d) None of these

8. Name the city where US dropped the first Atom bomb in Japan.

(a) Hiroshima

(b) Auschwitz

(c) Nagasaki 

(d) None of these

9. When did the Second World War end?

(a) 11th June 1945       (b) 9th May 1945

 (c) 9th May 1944          (d) 9th June 1945

10. Who were considered as inferiors and undesirables by Nazi Germany?

(a) Jews

(b) Gypsies and Blacks

(c) Russians and Poles 

(d) All of these

11. What were the children taught in Germany under the Nazis? 

(a) To be loyal and submissive

(b) To hate Jews

(c) To worship Hitler

(d) All of these 

12. Which party came to be known as the

Nazi Party? 

(a) German Workers' Party

(b) National Socialist German Workers'Party

(c) Socialist German Workers' Party 

(d) National German Workers' Party

13.What were ghettos?

(a) Political organisations

(b) Areas where Jews lived

(c) Playgrounds of German children

(d) Schools of Jews

14. What does the Reichstag mean? 

(a) German Coin

(b) German State 

(c) German Parliament

(d) German Currency

15. The concentration camps were

(a) safe places for the Jews

(b) unsafe places for the Germans

(c) places enclosed with live wires

(d) places where jews were jailed

NCERT Solutions 

Q1). Describe the problems faced by the weimar Republic?

Ans- The problem faced by the weimar Republic were as mentioned below :

(i). Peace Treaty the words list as harsh and humiliating. Germany was forced pay compensation of 6 billion dollar.

(ii). The supporters of Republic socialist, democratic and catholics were called ‘November criminals’.

(iii). The economic crisis of 1923 made the situation worst as the prices rose very high.

(iv). During the Great Depression in (1929-30) German economy was again badly hit the number of unemployed by 6 million.

(v). Politically the republic was fragile.

Q2). Discuss why Nazim became popular in Germany by 1930?

Ans- Nazim became popular in Germany 1930 due to following reasons :

(i). The crisis in economy and society formed the background to Hitler’s rise to the power and popularity of Nazim.

(ii). The Nazim code not effectively mobilized popular support till the 1930’s.

(iii). Hitler was a powerful speaker his passion and his words moved peoples.

(iv). He promised to build a strong nation undo the injustice of the Versailles treaty.

(v). Hitler divides a new style of politics. he understood the significance of rituals and the red banner with the ‘swastika’.

Q3). What are the peculiar features of Nazi thinking?

Ans- Q5). Explain what role woman had in Nazi society? ideology was synonymous with Hitler's worldview. 

1 According to this there was no equality between people, but only a racial hierarchy. In this view blond, blue-eyed, Nordic German Aryans were at the top, while Jews were located at the lowest rung. They came to be regarded as an anti-race, the arch-enemies of the Aryans. All other coloured people were placed in between depending upon their external features. The Nazi argument was simple: the strongest race would survive and the weak ones would perish. The Aryan race was the finest. It had to retain its purity, become stronger and dominate the world.

2. The other aspect of Hitler's ideology related to the geopolitical concept of Lebensraum, or living space. He believed that 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. It would also enhance the material resources and power of the German nation.

Q4). Explain why Nazi propaganda was effect in creating a hatred for jews?

Ans- The Nazi regime used language and media with care, and often to great effect. 

The terms they coined to describe their various practices are not only deceptive. They are chilling. Nazis never used the words 'kill' or 'murder' in their official communications. Mass killings were termed special treatment, final solution (for the Jews), euthanasia (for the disabled), selection and disinfections. 'Evacuation' meant deporting people to gas chambers. 

The Gas chambers  were labelled 'disinfection-areas', and looked like bathrooms equipped with fake showerheads.

Media was carefully used to win support for the regime and popularise its worldview.

Nazi ideas were spread through visual images, films, radio, posters, catchy slogans and leaflets. In posters, groups identified as the 'enemies' of Germans were stereotyped, mocked, abused and described as evil.

Propaganda films were made to create hatred for Jews. The most infamous film was The Eternal Jew. Orthodox Jews were stereotyped and marked. They were shown with flowing beards wearing kaftans, they were referred to as vermin, rats and pests.

Q5). Explain what role woman had in Nazi society?

Ans- Children in Nazi Germany were repeatedly told that women were radically different from men. While boys were taught to be aggressive, masculine and steel hearted, girls were told that they had to become good mothers and rear pure-blooded Aryan children. 

Girls had to maintain the purity of the race, distance themselves from Jews, look after the home, and teach their children Nazi values. They had to be the bearers of the Aryan culture and race.

Women who bore racially undesirable children were punished and those who produced racially desirable children were awarded. They were given favoured treatment in hospitals and were also entitled to concessions in shops and on theatre tickets and railway fares. 

To encourage women to produce many children, Honour Crosses were awarded. A bronze cross was given for four children, silver for six and gold for eight or more.

All 'Aryan' women who deviated from the prescribed code of conduct were publicly condemned, and severely punished. 

Those who maintained contact with Jews, Poles and Russians were paraded through the town with shaved heads, blackened faces and placards hanging around their necks.

Q6). In what ways did the Nazi state seek to establish total control over its people?

Ans- 

1 Special surveillance and security forces were created to control and order society in ways that the Nazis wanted. 

2. Apart from the already existing regular police in green uniform and the SA or the Storm Troopers, these included the Gestapo (secret state police), the SS (the protection squads), criminal police and the Security Service (SD). 

3. It was the extra-constitutional powers of these newly organised forces that gave the Nazi state its reputation as the most dreaded criminal state.

4.  People could now be detained in Gestapo torture chambers, -rounded up and sent to concentration camps, deported at will or arrested without any legal procedures. 

Q7. How Nazi ideology was taught to Youth in Nazi Germany?

Ans.  All schools were 'cleansed' and 'purified'. This meant that teachers who were Jews or seen as 'politically unreliable' were dismissed. 

Children were first segregated: Germans and Jews could not sit together or play together.

Subsequently, 'undesirable children' - Jews, the physically handicapped, Gypsies - were thrown out of schools.

And finally in the 1940s, they were taken to the gas chambers.

'Good German' children were subjected to a process of Nazi schooling. 

School textbooks were rewritten. Racial science was introduced to justify Nazi ideas of race. 

Children were taught to be loyal and submissive, hate Jews, and worship Hitler. 

Hitler believed that boxing could make children iron hearted, strong and masculine.

Ten-year-olds had to enter Jungvolk. At 14, all boys had to join the Nazi youth organisation - Hitler Youth - where they learnt to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy, and hate Jews and all those categorised as 'undesirable'.