CBSE Class 9 History Nazism and the Rise of Hitler MCQs

Question. Where is the Wall Street Exchange?
(a) America
(b) Britain
(c) France
(d) Germany

Answer :   A

Question. Which of the following was a special surveillance and security force created by Hitler?
(a) Regular police force in green uniform and stormtroopers
(b) Gestapo (secret state police), the SS (the protection squads)
(c) Criminal police (SD), the security service
(d) Both (b) and (c)

Answer :   D

Question. What did the term ‘Evacuation’ mean?
(a) Living in separately marked areas called ghettos
(b) Deporting people to gas chambers
(c) Arrested without any legal procedures
(d) Detained without due process of law

Answer :   B

Question. A camp where people were isolated and detained without due process of law, referred to as………?
(a) Barracks
(b) Home camp
(c) Concentration camp
(d) Toture camp 

Answer :   C

Question. Hitler became the Chancellor or Germany in the year
(a) 1931
(b) 1932
(c) 1933
(d) 1934

Answer :   A

Question. The Treaty of Versailles (1920) signed at the end of World War I, was harsh and humiliating for Germany, because
(a) Germany lost its overseas colonies, and 13 percent of its territories
(b) It lost 75% of its iron and 26% of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania, was forced to pay compensation of 6 billion pounds
(c) The western powers demilitarised Germany and they occupied resource-rich Rhineland in the 1920s
(d) All the above

Answer :   D

Question. What was the response of the Germans to the new Weimar Republic?
(a) They held the new Weimar Republic responsible for Germany’s defeat and the disgrace at Versailles
(b) The republic carried the burden of war guilt and national humiliation
(c) It became the target of attacks in the conservative national circles
(d) All the above

Answer :   D

Question. What was the destination of all ‘undesirables’ of the German Empire called?
(a) Land of ‘undesirables’
(b) Cursed land
(c) General government
(d) Land for the abnormals

Answer :   C

Question. Why did the Nuremburg Tribunal sentence only 11 Nazis to death for such a massive genocide?
(a) Only these 11 Nazis were found guilty
(b) The Allies did not want to be harsh on the defeated Germany as they had been after WorldWar
(c) Germany promised never to repeat such an act
(d) Germany was ready to pay a huge compensation to the Allied countries for these killings

Answer :   B

Question. The National Assembly met at Weimer and decided to establish
(a) a democratic constitution with a federal structure
(b) a communist form of government
(c) a powerful monarchy
(d) a military state

Answer :   A

Question. When did Hitler become the Chancellor of Germany?
(a) January 30, 1923
(b) January 30, 1929
(c) January 30, 1933
(d) March 3, 1933

Answer :   C

Question. The Nuremburg laws of citizenship of 1935 stated that :
(a) Only persons of German or related blood would henceforth be German citizens
(b) Marriages between Jews and Germans were forbidden
(c) Jews were forbidden to fly the national flag
(d) All the above

Answer :   D

Question. Hitler took over the German Workers Party and renamed it as….?
(a) Secular German Workers
(b) Socialist Workers of Germany
(c) National Socialist Party
(d) National Workers of Germany

Answer :   C

Question. Why was the Weimar Republic called ‘November Criminals’?
(a) Because they signed armistice agreement and conceded Germany to Allies
(b) Because they crushed Spartacists with the help of free Corps
(c) Because they misused Article 48
(d) They secured loans from USA

Answer :   A

Question. In what ways did the First World War leave a deep impact on European society and polity?
(a) Soldiers were put above civilians
(b) Politicians laid stress on men to strong and masculine
(c) Aggressive war propaganda was given support
(d) All

Answer :   D

Question. Who wrote ‘Mein Kampf’?
(a) Herbert Spencer
(b) Charles Darwin
(c) Adolf Hitler
(d) Goebbels

Answer :   C

Question . Which was a feature of Hitler’s foreign policy?
(a) He pulled out of the league of nations in 1933
(b) He decided not attack any country
(c) He thanked the Allied powers
(d) All

Answer :   A

Question. The Nazi party had become the largest party by:
(a) 1930
(b) 1931
(c) 1932
(d) 1933

Answer :   C

Question . The Nazi Party became the largest party by?
(a) 1930
(b) 1931
(c) 1932
(d) 1933

Answer :   C

Question. According to the Nazis, which people were to be regarded as desirable?
(a) Pure and healthy Nordic Aryans
(b) German soldiers who helped in territorial expansion
(c) German police of different types
(d) All those who were willing to consider Hitler as God

Answer :   A

Question . Why did Helmuth’s father kill himself?
(a) He was depressed by Germany’s defeat
(b) He feared that common people will mishandle him
(c) He feared revenge by the allied powers
(d) He wanted to commit suicide

Answer :   C

Question. Which of the following statements is true about the economic crisis in Germany in 1923?
(a) The value of ‘Mark’ (German currency) collapsed
(b) Prices of goods soared high
(c) Weimer Republic brought economic prosperity
(d) Both (a) and (b)

Answer :   D

Question. Which of the following statements is false about soldiers in the World War I?
(a) The soldiers, in reality, led miserable lives in trenches, survived with feeding on the copras
(b) They faced poisonous gas and enemy shelling and loss of comrades
(c) All soldiers were ready to die for their country’s honour and personal glory
(d) Aggressive propaganda glorified war

Answer :   C

Question. Which of the following bodies was set up to try and prosecute the Nazi war criminals at the end of World War II?
(a) International Military Tribunal
(b) British Military Tribunal
(c) Allied Military Tribunal
(d) Allied Judicial Court

Answer :   A

Question. When did Germany withdraw herself from the League of Nations?
(a) 1930
(b) 1931
(c) 1932
(d) 1933

Answer :   D

Question. Who were called the ‘November criminals’?
(a) The Opponents of Weimar Republic
(b) The Emperor who abdicated, and his men
(c) The supporters of Weimar Republic
(d) None of the above

Answer :   C

Question. Hilter pull his country out of the League of Nations in:
(a) 1933
(b) 1940
(c) 1943
(d) 1923

Answer :   A

Question. Who was given the responsibility of economic recovery ?
(a) Lenin
(b) Hitler
(c) Stalin
(d) Hjalmer School

Answer :    B

Question.The term ‘Proletarianisation’ refers to :
(a) Impoverished to the level of the middle class.
(b) Imporverished to the level of the upper/ruling class.
(c) Impoverished to the level of the working class.
(d) Exploitation of the new emerging middle class.

Answer :   C

Question. What was the process of Nazi schooling for ‘Good German children’?
(a) Racial science was introduced to justify Nazi ideas of race
(b) School textbooks were rewritten
(c) Even the function of sports was to nurture a spirit of violence and aggression among children
(d) All the above

Answer :   D

Question. When and among which countries was the Tripartite Pact signed?
(a) 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan
(b) 1939, Germany, Austria and USSR
(c) 1940, England, France and USA
(d) 1938, England, Germany and USSR

Answer :   A

Question. Which of these were the reasons of Nazi hatred of the Jews?
(a) Jews had been stereotyped as killers of Christ
(b) They were ‘usurers’, i.e. moneylenders
(c) The Jews had always cheated the Nazis
(d) Both (a) and (b)

Answer :   D

Question. What was ‘Jungvolk’ in Nazi Germany?
(a) Magazine
(b) Holocaust camp
(c) Youth organisation
(d) Schools

Answer :   C

Question.How were Allies power strengthened ?
(a) By defeating Germany
(b) By defeating Japan
(c) By defeating Italy
(d) With the entering of US in World War

Answer :   B

Question. What was the name given to gas chambers by Nazis?
(a) Killing Machine
(b) Solution Areas
(c) Revolutionary Ground
(d) Disinfection Areas

Answer :   D

Question. Which article of the Weimar Constitution gave the President the powers to impose emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree in Germany?
(a) 46
(b) 47
(c) 48
(d) None of these

Answer :   C

Question.What is the name of Republic that was established in Germany after World War I ?
(a) Republic of German Federation
(b) Republic of German Confederation
(c) German Republic State
(d) The Weimer Republic

Answer :   D

Question. In what ways did the First World War leave a deep imprint on European society and polity?
(a) Soldiers were put above civilians, trench-life was glorified
(b) Politicians and publicists laid stress on men to be aggressive and masculine
(c) Aggressive war propaganda and national honour were given the most support and Conservative dictatorships were welcomed
(d) All the above

Answer :   D

Question. Why did Helmut’s father kill himself in the spring of 1945?
(a) He was depressed by Germany’s defeat in Second World War
(b) He feared that common people would mishandle him and his family
(c) He feared revenge by the Allied Powers
(d) He wanted to die because of the crimes he had committed during Nazi rule

Answer :   C

Question. Against which of these countries had Germany fought during World War I (1914-1918)?
(a) England
(b) France
(c) Russia
(d) All the above

Answer :   D

Question.What gave Nazi state its reputation as the most dreaded criminal state?
(a) Extra-constitutional powers were given to the newly organised forces like Gestapo, the SS and SD
(b) People could be detained in Gestapo torture chambers and sent to concentration camps
(c) No legal procedures were there for the arrested people
(d) All the above

Answer :   D

Question. Which incident led to the start of World War II?
(a) German invasion of Switzerland
(b) German invasion of Poland
(c) Russian invasion of Germany
(d) Japan’s sinking of ship at Pearl Harbour

Answer :   B

Question. What was Hitler’s ideology of ‘lebensraum’ or living space?
(a) Multi-storeyed buildings should be built in Germany to increase the living space
(b) The world must be occupied enabling the material resources and power of the German nation.
(c) New territories had to be acquired for settlement
(d) Both (b) and (c)

Answer :   D