Lesson 2O.2.1

2O.2.1 Nazi Germany, 1933–1945 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 25

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  1. Which event of 30 June 1934 saw Hitler eliminate the SA leadership and other rivals?

    • The Night of the Long Knives
    • The Kristallnacht
    • The Reichstag fire
    • The Munich Putsch

  2. Which position did Hitler combine after President Hindenburg's death in August 1934?

    • Commander of the Luftwaffe and Minister of Economics
    • Governor of the Reichsbank and head of the Gestapo
    • Chancellor and Foreign Minister only
    • President and Chancellor, as Führer

  3. Which police force, led by Himmler, carried out political repression and was central to the 'Terror State'?

    • The Sturmabteilung in its 1932 form
    • The Freikorps
    • The SS and Gestapo
    • The Hitler Youth

  4. Which economic official was responsible for the Four Year Plan of 1936 designed to prepare Germany for war?

    • Joachim von Ribbentrop
    • Hermann Göring
    • Hjalmar Schacht
    • Albert Speer

  5. Which economic policy did Hjalmar Schacht pursue in the early 1930s to reduce unemployment?

    • Abolishing government spending on infrastructure
    • Returning to the gold standard without reserves
    • Public works and rearmament funded by credit and bills
    • Free trade with the USA and the UK

  6. Which concept describes the Nazi aim of uniting Germans into a single racially defined community?

    • Anschluss
    • Gleichschaltung
    • Lebensraum
    • Volksgemeinschaft

  7. Which Nuremberg Laws of 1935 excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriage with non-Jews?

    • The Enabling Act and the Reichstag Fire Decree
    • The Reich Citizenship Law and the Blood Protection Law
    • The Treaty of Versailles and the Dawes Plan
    • The Anti-Comintern Pact and the Pact of Steel

  8. Which event in November 1938 was a violent attack on Jewish people and property across Germany?

    • The Wannsee Conference
    • Kristallnacht
    • The Night of the Long Knives
    • The Anschluss

  9. Which mobile killing units followed the German army into Poland and the Soviet Union from 1939?

    • The Volkssturm
    • The Einsatzgruppen
    • The Freikorps
    • The Panzer divisions

  10. Which conference of January 1942 coordinated the plan for the 'Final Solution' among senior officials?

    • The Munich Conference
    • The Wannsee Conference
    • The Stresa Conference
    • The Yalta Conference

  11. Which minister's work organising war production in 1942-1945 helped sustain the German war effort?

    • Hjalmar Schacht
    • Joseph Goebbels
    • Heinrich Himmler
    • Albert Speer

  12. Which July 1944 attempt on Hitler's life was carried out by army officers and failed?

    • The July Bomb Plot
    • The Kapp Putsch
    • The Munich Putsch
    • The Night of the Long Knives

  13. Which group of students resisted the Nazi regime in Munich in 1942-1943?

    • The Kreisau Circle
    • The Red Orchestra
    • The White Rose
    • The Edelweiss Pirates

  14. What was the purpose of the Gestapo's use of 'protective custody' against opponents in the 1930s?

    • To provide legal representation to Jews in courts
    • To release prisoners on parole after a year
    • To investigate corruption in the civil service
    • To imprison political opponents without trial

  15. Which policy of 1933-1934 forced Germany's workers, women and youth into state-organised bodies that replaced independent organisations?

    • Anschluss
    • Lebensraum
    • Autarky
    • Gleichschaltung

  16. Which programme of the late 1930s targeted disabled people and was an early step towards mass murder?

    • The Four Year Plan
    • The T4 euthanasia programme
    • The Strength Through Joy programme
    • The Hitler Youth programme

  17. Which factor best explains the economic recovery of Nazi Germany in the 1930s?

    • A return to the Dawes Plan reparations schedule
    • Free trade agreements with the League of Nations
    • Foreign aid from Britain under the Stresa Front
    • Rearmament and public works funded by borrowing

  18. Which resistance circle, centred on Helmuth von Moltke, discussed plans for a post-Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1943?

    • The Kreisau Circle
    • The Edelweiss Pirates
    • The Red Orchestra
    • The White Rose

  19. Which factor best explains the failure of German wartime morale to hold up by 1944-1945?

    • Widespread support for the Nazi regime among the Jewish population
    • Military defeats, Allied bombing and shortages
    • A rise in living standards across all sections of society
    • The end of rationing and the return of prisoners of war

  20. Which statement best summarises the Nazi state by 1945?

    • A totalitarian dictatorship built on terror and racial war
    • A federal democracy in which regional states kept full sovereignty
    • A peaceful state that avoided territorial expansion and mass violence
    • A stable constitutional monarchy restored after the July Bomb Plot

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