Deck 22: Totalitarianism Refined: the Nazi State

Question 1

Which o f the following was NOT a part of Hitler's call to arms?

A)Protection of the middle classes.
B)Rejection of the Versailles Treaty.
C)Land redistribution for the peasants.
D)Confiscation of World War I profits.
E)Government ownership of all property.

Answer 1

Government ownership of all property.

Question 2

Which was  NOT true of Hitler's government during the 1930s?

A)Its policy was increasingly anti-Semitic.
B)It was successful in eliminating mass unemployment.
C)It allowed only one party to represent the German people.
D)Its economic policy abolished private ownership.
E)It built up a strong military in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles.

Answer 2

Its economic policy abolished private ownership.

Question 3

How did Hitler actually achieve national level political office in January 1933?

A)He led a bloodless yet successful military coup d'état.
B)He was elected as the governor of Bavaria.
C)He was able to use Gauleiters to gain national attention.
D)He received political backing by foreign statesmen like Stalin and Churchill.
E)He was appointed Chancellor by the German president.

Answer 3

He was appointed Chancellor by the German president.

Question 4

Which of the following characteristics are among the similarities between the Nazis and communists?

A)Both groups wanted to seek a peaceful and diplomatic path to power.
B)Both sides were able to reconcile their differences and coexist peacefully.
C)Both parties looked for a legal and peaceful succession of power among their leadership.
D)Both parties wanted to include foreigners and minorities in their bureaucratic structure.
E)Both parties were filled with young men with no patience for negotiation or gradual reform.

Question 5

What became of Hitler after his failed putsch in 1923?

A)Hitler decided to start the National Socialist German Workers Party.
B)Hitler settled down to work on his art career in Austria.
C)He gained national notoriety while on trial then went to prison for one year.
D)Hitler was able to get the support of the army while he was in prison.
E)His failure was not a setback, so Hitler continued his political career uninterrupted.

Question 6

What was the basis for Nazi ideology?

A)Das Kapital and Communist Manifesto
B)Deutschland über alles
C)Mein Kampf and Heinrich Himmler's writings
D)Mein Kampf and Alfred Rosenberg's writings
E)Karl Marx and John Humphrey Noyes's writings

Question 7

What major global event led to the rise of the Nazi party to a place of prominence in Germany?

A)increased international trade
B)publication of Hitler's memoirs
C)the Great Depression
D)the rise of anti-Semitism
E)the communist revolutions

Question 8

As late a s 1928, how did the moderate and conservative parties tend to view Hitler?

A)As someone whose actions were unpredictable but could be useful against the Social Democrats.
B)As someone they feared but respected.
C)As more dangerous than the communists.
D)As someone capable of being manipulated but not to be taken seriously for elected office.
E)As a good economic manager but a bad politician.

Question 9

What was the name given to Hitler's removal of the Storm Trooper threat?

A)The Night of the Burning Books
B)The Flight of the Night Witches
C)The Night of the Physicists
D)The Night of the Long Knives
E)The Night of Broken Glass

Question 10

When did Adolf Hitler have his first true sense of his life's purpose?

A)Leading the revolutionaries in Vienna as a teenager.
B)When he began his art career in Vienna and became self-supporting.
C)When he saw the German economy recover under his leadership.
D)During his time as a soldier in the German army during World War I.
E)When he was elected as Chancellor of Germany.

Question 11

What was the purpose of the Enabling Act of 1933?

A)To create a public works program to eliminate unemployment.
B)To prohibit social contacts between Jews and non-Jews.
C)To grant the government power to rule by decree until the state emergency passed.
D)To begin the process of consolidating power and purging the Nazi party of Storm Troopers.
E)To give the SS power to conduct genocide against minorities with the creation of the concentration camps.

Question 12

Why did Hitler's Nazi party gain strength fairly rapidly during the Great Depression?

A)He promised to put people to work.
B)He promised Germany would leave the League of Nations.
C)He promised to undo the Versailles Treaty.
D)He promised to "take care of" the Jewish situation.
E)He promised land, bread, and peace for all good Germans.

Question 13

After rising to the position of Chancellor of Germany, how long did it take Hitler to transform Germany into a National Socialist dictatorship?

A)Germany never really became a National Socialist dictatorship.
B)Through skillful manipulation of "useful idiots," Hitler achieved dictatorial power in five years.
C)He accomplished the transformation in about eight weeks using constitutional procedures.
D)Hitler was able to gradually increase his political power over a period of about two years.
E)Germany already was a dictatorship so it only took a few days to put the Socialist stamp on things.

Question 14

At what point in time did the National Socialists in Germany decide to implement the "Final Solution"?

A)In 1933 at the first of the Nuremberg rallies.
B)In 1935 as a result of the Nuremberg Laws.
C)In 1942 at the Wannsee Conference.
D)In 1945 shortly after Hitler's demise.
E)In 1923 during the Weimar Republic.

Question 15

After the failed putsch of 1923, what did Hitler vow to accomplish?

A)never to go to prison again
B)to come to power legally through constitutional means
C)to get rid of all his political opponents
D)to bring the German people together again to show their true greatness
E)to not allow Germany to be a pawn of the Weimar Republic

Question 16

What was the title of Hitler's autobiography and call to arms written in 1923-1924?

A)Mit dem Völksrungen
B)Ganz Deutschland
C)Communist Manifesto
D)Mein Kampf
E)Das Kapital

Question 17

What plan was created during the W annsee Conference?

A)the construction of the autobahn
B)the invasion of Russia
C)the Night of the Long Knives
D)the Night of Broken Glass
E)the Holocaust

Question 18

What was considered the most important region in Germany?

A)Poland
B)Prussia
C)Alsace-Lorraine
D)Austria
E)Czechoslovakia

Question 19

What was the purpose of the N uremberg Laws?

A)to humiliate and exclude Jews from government employment
B)to order all Jews to leave Germany
C)to place all Jews in urban ghettos
D)to implement the Final Solution
E)to prohibit social contacts between Jews and "Aryans"

Question 20

What did the fir st phase of the campaign against the Jews in Germany include?

A)exclusion from government employment
B)denial of German citizenship to Jews
C)segregation into ghettos
D)consignment to camps
E)deportation to the United States

Question 21

The elite military security police that implemented the Final Solution were known as the ____________________.

Question 22

How many Jews were victims of the Holocaust?

A)500,000
B)2 million
C)6 million
D)10 million
E)18 million

Question 23

In 1923, Hitler and a few discontented army officers attempted a putsch in the city of  ____________________.

Question 24

Which of these men from Hitler's inner circle is correctly matched with his position or actions?

A)Ernst Röhm  − Hitler's brilliant propagandist
B)Joseph Goëbbels − head of the Gestapo
C)Herman Göring −  defense minister
D)Heinrich Himmler −   leader of the SS
E)Albert Speer  − headed the youth corps and developed propaganda

Question 25

What role did labor unions play in the Nazi regime?

A)Idealized in propaganda as true Aryan Germans.
B)Fully subordinated to the Nazi party.
C)Subjected to only sporadic and selective government interference.
D)Allowed to legally strike against unfair labor practices.
E)Served as the loyal opposition to the Nazi party.

Question 26

What percentage of the total German labor force was unemployed by 1932?

A)0)5 percent
B)5 percent
C)10 percent
D)25 percent
E)50 percent

Question 27

All of the following were part of Hitler's plan to consolidate power in 1933 EXCEPT

A)To legally come to power through constitutional means.
B)To introduce martial law to round up Nazi opponents.
C)To allow political parties elected in March 1933 to be seated in the Reichstag.
D)To abolish political parties by Nazi decree.
E)To purge the Nazi rivals from the party and placate the German army generals.

Question 28

Hitler t argeted all of the following during the Holocaust EXCEPT

A)Jews and Slavs
B)mentally or physically impaired
C)gypsies
D)homosexuals
E)Aryans

Question 29

Hitler and the National Socialist economic policies enacted in the 1930s were able to drastically reduce the problem of ____________________.

Question 30

Hitler ha d the ____________________ built to facilitate the movement of soldiers and materials in case of war.

Question 31

____________________ was the leader of the SS and in charge of operating the concentration camps.

Question 32

What was the commander of Nazi party  administrative  regions called?

A)Länder
B)Gauleiter
C)Storm Trooper
D)Blackshirt
E)Gestapo

Question 33

In the mid-1930s, Hitler used all of the following methods to provide jobs EXCEPT

A)Road construction and public works programs.
B)Munitions factories and suppliers received government orders.
C)Government supported laboratories created synthetic substitutes for needed raw materials.
D)The military retained manpower at pre-World War I levels.
E)Labor was allocated according to government needs.

Question 34

In September 1935, the ____________________ prohibited social contacts between Jews and "Aryans" and made Jews into non-citizens.

Question 35

From what segment of the population were Nazi party leaders selected?

A)working and lower-middle class men
B)bourgeoisie and aristocratic men
C)all elements and genders of the population
D)women and men of the  bourgeoisie
E)aristocratic and upper-middle class men and women

Question 36

The SA were purged i n 1934  by Hitler's orders in what became known as the ____________________.

Question 37

The administrative districts of the Nazi party throughout Germany were called a(n)____________________ .​

Question 38

Of all those countries with an industrial economy, Germany suffered the most from the ____________________.

Question 39

What did Hitler label the Weima r government as i n   h is speeches?

A)communistic
B)Marxist-Zionist
C)betrayers of German soldiers
D)Marxist-Leninist
E)the Dictatum of France

Question 40

____________________ was the president of Germany who appointed Hitler Chancellor in 1933.

Question 41

Term for identification: Heinrich Himmler

Question 42

Term for identification: Final Solution

Question 43

Term for identification: Anti-Semitism

Question 44

Describe the domestic consolidation of Nazi power in Germany, from 1933 to the start of World War II, specifically relating to the larger anti-Semitic context.

Question 45

Term for identification: Mein Kampf

Question 46

Term for identification: Storm Troopers (SA)

Question 47

Describe Hitler's early career prior to 1933, and assess possible formative influences that set the background for the beginning of the Nazi movement.

Question 48

Term for identification: Wannsee Conference

Question 49

By what methods did Hitler lift Germany out of economic depression? Describe the ultimate outcome of the Nazi economics plan. Did Hitler's plan meet his promises to the German people?

Question 50

Term for identification: Blackshirts (SS)

Question 51

Explain the roles fear and propaganda played in Hitler's rule.

Question 52

Term for identification: putsch

Question 53

Term for identification: Nuremberg Laws

Question 54

Trace the rise of the Nazi party and Hitler from the start of the Great Depression to the consolidation of power including economic and political aspects.

Question 55

Term for identification: Enabling Act

Question 56

Describe the phases of Hitler's "war on the Jews." What was Hitler's justification for this war on minorities? Defend your answer with examples.​