Lesson Y9-U04-L05

The Depression and the Rise of Extremism Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 17

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Lesson Y9-U04-L05, The Depression and the Rise of Extremism: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 17: Year 9: Rise of the Nazis, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. In which month and year did the Wall Street Crash happen?

    • October 1929
    • October 1923
    • November 1918
    • June 1919

  2. Why did the Wall Street Crash hit Germany so hard?

    • Germany had lost all of its farmland to the French army in the east
    • Germany had sold all its factories to the United States in 1928 for cash
    • Its recovery rested on short-term American loans
    • Germany had refused to trade with any country in the world after the war

  3. Roughly how many Germans were unemployed by 1932?

    • About 6 million
    • About 60 million
    • About 6,000
    • About 600,000

  4. Roughly how many Germans were unemployed in 1928?

    • About 130,000, a small figure for a country of its size and industry
    • About 13 million, which was far more than the total population of Berlin
    • About 1.3 million
    • About 13,000 people, mostly in the farming villages of the east

  5. Which benefit did Chancellor Brüning's government cut during the Depression?

    • Free school meals for all children
    • Unemployment benefit
    • The Kaiser's pension for veterans
    • Public housing for the middle class

  6. What did Article 48 allow the President to do?

    • Rule by emergency decree, bypassing the Reichstag
    • Dissolve the army and disband every political party
    • Print as much money as the government needed
    • Sign new treaties with Britain without consulting anyone

  7. What did proportional representation mean for Weimar elections?

    • Parties won seats in proportion to their votes
    • Votes were counted only in the rural areas of Germany and never in the cities
    • Only the largest party in each town was allowed to win any seats at all
    • Each voter had as many votes as the number of their children at home

  8. Why did Weimar's coalition governments keep collapsing?

    • They argued over how to fix the economy
    • They had no members at all in the Reichstag
    • They were all dissolved by the Allies in 1925
    • They were too popular and had no reason to resign

  9. Which party offered 'Work and Bread' to desperate Germans?

    • The Catholic Centre Party
    • The Social Democrats
    • The Nazis
    • The Communists

  10. What was the main difference between the Communist and Nazi offers?

    • Communists offered a monarchy, while the Nazis offered a new parliament building
    • Communists offered peace with France, while the Nazis offered war with everyone
    • Communists offered jobs for all, while the Nazis offered only free bread and beer
    • Communists offered revolution, Nazis offered order and jobs

  11. Whom did the Nazis blame as scapegoats?

    • The Allied soldiers who had occupied the Rhineland since the war ended
    • Jews, Communists and the 'November Criminals'
    • The farmers who grew wheat in the east of Germany and sold it abroad
    • The American bankers who had lent money to Germany during the 1920s

  12. What did the Nazis promise to do about the Treaty of Versailles?

    • Pay all reparations in gold by 1930
    • Sign a new treaty with the Allies every year
    • Keep the treaty but ignore its territorial terms
    • Tear it up

  13. Why did many businessmen and middle-class Germans support the Nazis?

    • They wanted the Treaty of Versailles to be strengthened even further by the Allies
    • They wanted to be ruled by a monarchy in Berlin once more with a Kaiser
    • They had been promised jobs in the Reichstag by Hitler in a private letter
    • They feared a Communist revolution

  14. Who ran the Nazi propaganda and huge rallies?

    • Gustav Stresemann
    • Joseph Goebbels
    • Paul von Hindenburg
    • Friedrich Ebert

  15. What does Source A, the 1932 Nazi poster, suggest the Nazis offered desperate Germans?

    • Hope, with Hitler presented as their 'last hope'
    • Free holidays on the Baltic coast for every family
    • A return of the Kaiser and the old monarchy
    • An immediate end to all taxes and rent payments

  16. Why is the Nazi poster in Source A biased as evidence?

    • It was designed to win votes and shows what the Nazis claimed
    • It was drawn by an artist who had lost his job in the Depression
    • It was printed by a neutral government office in Berlin
    • It was written by a historian who studied the economy in 1932

  17. Why is Source B, a worker's memoir written 20 years later, both useful and limited?

    • It is useful only because it was printed by the Nazi government in 1932
    • It explains the appeal from the inside, but memory may fade
    • It is limited only because the worker was a member of the Communist Party
    • It is useless because all memoirs written after 1945 are invented by their authors

  18. What did the worker in Source B say the Nazis promised him?

    • They would give us a free pension at 40
    • They would give us a place in Parliament
    • They would give us a holiday in Italy
    • They would give us work

  19. Which factor was the root cause that made the Nazi message so attractive?

    • The Depression and mass unemployment
    • The arrival of the Russian army in Berlin in 1930 to defend the city
    • The construction of the Berlin wall in the 1920s by the city council
    • The release of Hitler from prison in 1929 under a special amnesty

  20. What does the word 'scapegoat' mean?

    • Someone blamed unfairly for problems
    • A foreign loan paid back in full before the due date each year
    • A goat sacrificed by farmers to bring good harvests in the autumn
    • A politician who always wins the most votes in every election held

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