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

The 20 questions

1. Which 1934 Nazi purge resulted in the execution of Ernst Röhm?

   • Night of Long Knives
   • Blood Purge
   • Kristallnacht
   • Beer Hall Putsch

2. What title did Hitler adopt after merging the offices of President and Chancellor in 1934?

   • Reichsstatthalter
   • Reichspräsident
   • Kaiser
   • Führer

3. Which Nazi secret state police organisation was created to suppress political opposition?

   • Order Police
   • SA
   • Gestapo
   • Kripo

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 secret credit notes were introduced by Hjalmar Schacht to fund German rearmament?

   • Dawes bonds
   • Reichsmarks
   • Mefo bills
   • Rentenmarks

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

   • Anschluss
   • Gleichschaltung
   • Lebensraum
   • Volksgemeinschaft

7. In which year were the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws introduced in Nazi Germany?

   • 1933
   • 1935
   • 1938
   • 1936

8. What was the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms across Germany in November 1938 called?

   • Einsatzgruppen
   • Kristallnacht
   • Gleichschaltung
   • 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 army officer planted the bomb in the failed attempt on Hitler's life in July 1944?

    • Claus von Stauffenberg
    • Henning von Tresckow
    • Erwin Rommel
    • Ludwig Beck

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 power did 'protective custody' give the Gestapo over political opponents?

    • Immediate exile abroad
    • Forced military service
    • Execution on arrest
    • Imprisonment 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 Nazi programme targeted disabled individuals for secret murder from 1939 onwards?

    • Aktion 1005
    • Action T4
    • Operation Reinhard
    • Lebensborn

17. Which credit notes were secret government IOUs used to fund German rearmament from 1934?

    • Dawes bonds
    • Reichsmarks
    • Rentenmarks
    • Mefo bills

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 term described Goebbels' February 1943 call for complete mobilisation of society and economy?

    • Blitzkrieg
    • Total war
    • Gleichschaltung
    • Volksgemeinschaft

20. Which 1933 law allowed Hitler's cabinet to enact legislation without parliamentary approval?

    • The Enabling Act
    • The Reichstag Decree
    • The Restoration Law
    • The Nuremberg Laws

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