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  • 1. On what date was Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany?
A) 30 January 1933
B) 27 February 1933
C) 10 May 1933
D) 23 March 1933
  • 2. Who was the Dutch communist found guilty of setting fire to the Reichstag?
A) Marinus van der Lubbe
B) Horst Wessel
C) Adolf Hitler
D) Paul von Hindenburg
  • 3. What decree allowed the police to detain people indefinitely without charges?
A) Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
B) Reichstag Fire Decree
C) Enabling Act
D) Law Against the Formation of Parties
  • 4. What vote count allowed the Enabling Act to pass the Reichstag?
A) 300 to 200
B) 444 to 94
C) 500 to 50
D) 400 to 100
  • 5. What event was known as the Machtergreifung?
A) Hitler's seizure of power
B) The passage of the Enabling Act
C) The 1932 general election
D) The Reichstag fire
  • 6. What law officially made Germany a one-party state?
A) Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
B) Reichstag Fire Decree
C) Law Against the Formation of Parties
D) Enabling Act
  • 7. What was the date that Germany became a one-party state?
A) 10 May 1933
B) 23 March 1933
C) 14 July 1933
D) 30 January 1933
  • 8. Which professional group was targeted by the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service?
A) Trade union delegates
B) Teachers and judges
C) Industrialists
D) Farmers
  • 9. What became the sole national flag of Germany in September 1935?
A) The swastika flag
B) The party anthem flag
C) The black, red, and gold tricolour
D) The imperial black, white, and red tricolour
  • 10. How many new jobs were created by public works projects by the end of 1934?
A) 444
B) 1.7 million
C) 6 million
D) 4,000
  • 11. What did the Nazi government celebrate on May Day 1933?
A) The passage of the Enabling Act
B) The Reichstag fire
C) The ban of political parties
D) Day of National Labour
  • 12. Which institution remained outside of Nazi control according to the text?
A) The Reichstag
B) The churches
C) The trade unions
D) The civil service
  • 13. Who pressured President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor?
A) The trade unions
B) The Social Democrats
C) Politicians and industrialists
D) The Communist Party
  • 14. What was the second national anthem of Nazi Germany?
A) The Weimar anthem
B) Horst-Wessel-Lied
C) The imperial anthem
D) The party anthem of the Social Democrats
  • 15. How many Communist Party members were arrested following the Reichstag fire?
A) 4,000
B) 444
C) 6 million
D) 1.7 million
  • 16. What title was Hitler confirmed as in the 1934 referendum?
A) Kaiser
B) Chancellor
C) Führer
D) President
  • 17. Which empire was NOT cited as a predecessor to the Third Reich?
A) German Empire
B) All of these were cited
C) Weimar Republic
D) Holy Roman Empire
  • 18. What was the main method used to finance public works and rearmament?
A) Gold standard reserves
B) Foreign loans
C) Tax increases
D) Deficit spending
  • 19. What were the Nazi motorways officially called?
A) Bundesstraße
B) Autobahnen
C) Blitzwege
D) Reichsstraßen
  • 20. Which event in 1938 involved the seizing of Austria?
A) Munich Agreement
B) Operation Barbarossa
C) Sudetenland annexation
D) Anschluss
  • 21. Which groups were considered the 'master race' by the Nazis?
A) Latin peoples
B) Slavic peoples
C) Germanic peoples
D) Romani people
  • 22. Where were Nazi leadership officials put on trial for war crimes after the war?
A) Munich
B) Nuremberg
C) Frankfurt
D) Berlin
  • 23. What brought an end to World War II in Europe in May 1945?
A) The collapse of the Italian government
B) The Allies entered Berlin
C) The death of Hitler in 1944
D) A peace treaty signed in Paris
  • 24. What was the result of the Nazi racial policies?
A) The Holocaust
B) The expansion of the German Empire
C) Increased immigration to Germany
D) The establishment of the United Nations
  • 25. When did Germany lose the initiative in World War II?
A) 1945
B) 1939
C) 1941
D) 1943
  • 26. Which country did Germany sign a non-aggression pact with before invading Poland?
A) Britain
B) Soviet Union
C) France
D) Italy
  • 27. What is another common term for the German state in the Nazi era besides 'Nazi Germany'?
A) Third Reich
B) Imperial Germany
C) Weimar Union
D) German Republic
  • 28. Which term did Hitler and the Nazis use to refer to the 'Third Reich'?
A) Thousand-Year Reich
B) Unified Reich
C) Eternal Empire
D) Greater Germany
  • 29. According to the book 'Das Dritte Reich', what was the first Reich?
A) Holy Roman Empire
B) Bavarian State
C) Prussian Kingdom
D) German Empire
  • 30. What was considered the second Reich in 'Das Dritte Reich'?
A) German Empire
B) Austro-Hungarian Empire
C) Holy Roman Empire
D) Weimar Republic
  • 31. What was a major consequence of the German government printing money to pay war debts?
A) Stable currency
B) Deflation
C) Industrial growth
D) Hyperinflation
  • 32. In January 1923, what action did the French take after Germany defaulted on reparations?
A) Occupied industrial areas along the Ruhr
B) Invaded Munich
C) Annexed Berlin
D) Blockaded the Baltic Sea
  • 33. In what year was the Nazi Party founded?
A) 1929
B) 1920
C) 1919
D) 1923
  • 34. What term did the Nazis use for 'living space' for Germanic peoples?
A) Reich
B) Lebensraum
C) Volk
D) Bund
  • 35. What was the paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party also known as the 'Brownshirts'?
A) Gestapo
B) Sturmabteilung
C) Schutzstaffel
D) Wehrmacht
  • 36. Which sympathetic state leader tolerated far-right armed groups in Bavaria?
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
C) Gustav Ritter von Kahr
D) Friedrich Ebert
  • 37. What global event in 1929 had a dire effect on the German economy?
A) United States stock market crash
B) End of World War I
C) Collapse of the British Pound
D) Global food shortage
  • 38. How many seats did the Nazi Party hold in the Reichstag after the 1932 election?
A) 230
B) 300
C) 400
D) 150
  • 39. Who was the SA Stabschef targeted by Hitler in the 1934 purge?
A) Ernst Röhm
B) Joseph Goebbels
C) Gregor Strasser
D) Kurt von Schleicher
  • 40. To whom did the new loyalty oath for servicemen specifically pledge allegiance?
A) Hitler personally
B) The Weimar Republic
C) The Office of the Reich President
D) The German Constitution
  • 41. What percentage of the electorate approved the merger of the presidency and chancellorship in the 1934 plebiscite?
A) 99 per cent
B) 90 per cent
C) 75 per cent
D) 50 per cent
  • 42. Who was the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda?
A) Gregor Strasser
B) Ernst Röhm
C) Kurt von Schleicher
D) Joseph Goebbels
  • 43. Where was the first major Nazi concentration camp opened in 1933?
A) Auschwitz
B) Buchenwald
C) Dachau
D) Bergen-Belsen
  • 44. How did the Nazis characterize the country they wanted to build?
A) Democratic
B) Socialist-friendly
C) Marxist-free
D) Capitalist-free
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