Module 8 Test Review

What is one event in the post-World War I period that helped Adolf Hitler rise to power?

• German American immigrants threatened to invade Germany.
• Germany's ally, the Ottoman Empire, collapsed.
• The Treaty of Versailles was not adopted by the United States.
• Germany was forced to pay reparations to the victorious allied powers.

Which statement about the circumstances in Germany that led to Adolf Hitler's rise to power is true?

• Germans trusted Hitler to obey the terms of the Treaty of Versailles so as not to offend France and Britain.
• The worldwide depression that began in the early 1930s hit Germany especially hard.
• Steep inflation helped Germans' savings and made the German mark worth a great deal.
• The German people were tired of strong leaders and wanted a chancellor the Reichstag could control.

Which statement about Adolf Hitler's rise to power is true?

• He looked to Roosevelt and the New Deal as a model for rebuilding Germany.
• He restored national pride by telling Germans they weren't to blame for World War I.
• He told the German people they must pay the war reparations demanded by the allies.
• He promised that Germany's borders would never change.

Which correctly describes Hitler's final solution?

• a strategy for enlarging Germany through annexation
• a plan to invade the Soviet Union and enslave its people
• a remedy for Germany's economic problems of the 1930s
• a plan to exterminate all the Jewish people in Europe

Which false scientific theory did the Nazis use to justify their persecution of Jews?

• mysticism
• phrenology
• racism
• astrology

Which statement about Hitler's treatment of European Jews is correct?

• Jews all over Europe were rounded up and sent to concentration camps to be murdered.
• Most of the Jews in Europe fled to the United States in the years before World War II.
• Jews who lived in Germany and had good jobs were not discriminated against.
• Hitler's persecution of the Jews led the United States to declare war on Germany.

Which phrase best describes anti-Semitism?

• persecution of Slavs
• oppression of Japanese Americans
• fear of communists
• hatred of Jews

Which statement about concentration camps is not true?

• Inmates in concentration camps were starved and brutally treated.
• Men, women, and even small children were sent to concentration camps.
• Nazis used concentration camps to murder millions of people.
• Only Jews were sent to concentration camps.

Which ethnic group was not rounded up by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps?

• Slavs
• Gypsies
• Aryans
• Jews

Which group of people were not imprisoned in concentration camps?

• people with disabilities or mental illness
• Nazi party members
• people from so-called "inferior" races
• Communist party members