Lesson Y9-U04-L05

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

20 questions

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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 severely damage Germany's economy?

    • High domestic taxes
    • Excessive gold reserves
    • Sudden agricultural failure
    • Short-term US loans

  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 before the Depression?

    • 10 million
    • 6 million
    • 100 thousand
    • 1.3 million

  5. Which key state payment did Chancellor Brüning cut during the Depression?

    • Pensions for soldiers
    • Foreign aid budgets
    • Unemployment benefit
    • Royal family allowances

  6. What power did Article 48 grant the Weimar President?

    • Ban all taxation
    • Appoint the Kaiser
    • Dissolve the army
    • Rule by decree

  7. How did proportional representation affect Weimar election results?

    • Only two parties
    • Many small parties
    • Absolute majority rule
    • No coalition governments

  8. Why did Weimar coalition governments frequently collapse during the crisis?

    • Royal vetoes
    • Foreign military invasions
    • Lack of elections
    • Economic disagreements

  9. Which political party used the popular campaign slogan 'Work and Bread'?

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

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

    • Peace versus war
    • Revolution versus jobs
    • Monarchy versus republic
    • Taxes versus welfare

  11. Which groups did Nazi propaganda primarily blame for Germany's troubles?

    • Industrialists and bankers
    • Farmers and teachers
    • Jews and Communists
    • Artists and writers

  12. What did the Nazi party promise to do to the Treaty of Versailles?

    • Ignore its costs
    • Strictly obey it
    • Tear it up
    • Extend its terms

  13. Which major political fear drove many middle-class Germans to support the Nazis?

    • Fear of democracy
    • Fear of Communism
    • Fear of monarchy
    • Fear of taxation

  14. Who ran the Nazi propaganda and huge rallies?

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

  15. How did Nazi propaganda present Adolf Hitler to desperate Germans during the Depression?

    • An economic expert
    • A military hero
    • Their last hope
    • A democratic leader

  16. What was the main purpose of Nazi campaign posters during the Weimar era?

    • To provide statistics
    • To encourage debate
    • To record history
    • To win votes

  17. What is a major limitation of using memoirs written decades later as historical evidence?

    • Memories fade
    • Written in Latin
    • Always official
    • Checked by police

  18. What was the primary promise made by the Nazis to unemployed German workers?

    • Jobs
    • Higher taxes
    • Free housing
    • Colonial expansion

  19. Which economic crisis created the conditions that made the Nazi message attractive?

    • The 1848 revolutions
    • Post-war hyperinflation
    • The Great Depression
    • The oil crisis

  20. What does the historical term 'scapegoat' mean?

    • Political reformer
    • Blamed unfairly
    • Economic leader
    • Foreign ally

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