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WorksheetsNazi Germany Edexcel GCSE
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 28mins
Who was the first President of the Weimar Republic?
Adolf Hitler
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Friedrich Ebert
Paul Von Hindenburg
What was the purpose of Article 48?
It reverts the government to the Kaiser's rule
A curfew will be enforced and placed under military rule
It gives the Chancellor power to overrule the President and the Reichstag
It gives the President emergency power to rule without Reichstag intervention
In order to pay the striking German workers in the Ruhr , the German government chose to...
Print more money
Pay them with goods rather than currency
Pay them with foreign currency
Not pay them at all
Hyperinflation was ...
Good for people in debt and bad for people with savings
Good for people with fixed incomes and bad for farmers
Good for investors and for people with fixed incomes
Bad for people who owned possessions but good for pensioners
When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
23 June 1918
11 November 1918
28 June 1919
4 July 1919
What is a republic?
A country without a monarch
A country with a monarch
A type of pastry
A country that is part of an empire
What was the German Workers Party re-named in order to appeal to a wider group in society?
The National Socialist Workers Party
The Communist National Workers Party
The National Socialist German Party
The National Socialist German Workers Party
what impact did the American Wall Street crash have on Germany?
allowed Germany to escape their reparations
made millions of Germans lose their jobs
allowed Germans to buy American goods at cheap prices
gave Germany a Casus Belli
What did Hitler immediately do when he became Führer?
made Germany a Communist Dictatorship
Banned all other political parties except the Nazis
Fought the crippling hyperinflation with Bolshevik ideas
Declare war on Poland
Select the name of the secret state police and who was in charge of it:
The SA
The Gestapo
Reinhard Heydrich
Joseph Gobbels
The most feared organization by Germans was...
The Gestapo
The SA
The SS
The Waffen SS
The nazis controlled magistrates, judges and courts.
Select who was in charge of Nazi propaganda:
Hitler
Reinhard Heydrich
Joseph Gobbels
What is the Reichstag
The German Parliament (like a congress)
The leader of the Wiemar government
The prime minister
The Wiemar constitution
After coming into power Hitler killed many of his political rivals, including the leader of the Brownshirts. This was known as. . .
Walpurgisnacht
Night of Broken Glass
Kristallnacht
Night of the Long Knives
The Nazis wanted women to...
Go out and enjoy themselves, go to parties, but have lots of children.
Marry, have lots of children, stay at home and be a good wife and mother.
Go out, wear make up and meet a man to marry.
The Nazis thought a woman's appearance should include
A Bob hair cut, sleeveless dresses and make up.
Long blonde hair, long colourful dresses and no make up.
Dress in plain traditional dresses, have their hair tied up in a bun or in plaits, wear no make up.
Women could do a range of jobs in Nazi Germany, including...
Teaching, practising law and working for the government
TV, Radio and Main Stream Media work
Cooking, Cleaning and looking after children at home.
A German woman would have received this gold Cross for ....
Having three children
Having six children
Having eight children
Which Nazi law was designed to encourage young people to get married?
Law for Encouragement of Celibacy
Law Prohibiting Divorce
Law Prohibiting Abortion
Law for Encouragement of Marriage
Why did the Nazis make it easier for men to divorce their wives?
So they were free to fight
To stop the population from rising
So they could re-marry and have more children
What were 'lebensborn' homes used for?
Forcing unmarried women to work making ammunition
Forcing young people to build defences
Forcing unmarried women to have babies with SS men
'Correcting' the bad behaviour of criminals
What was the name of Hitler's "master race"?
Semites
Latinos
Caucasians
Aryans
What was the name of the first Concentration Camp?
Dachau
Sachsenhausen
Auschwitz
Belsen
Which new courts, with no defence lawyers, dealt with 'political' crimes?
Nazi Courts
Federal Courts
Supreme Courts
People's Courts
Who was Head of the SS?
Himmler
Rohm
Goering
Hitler
What was the Night of the Long Knives?
A night in which many Jewish business owners were disposed from their businesses
The beginning of the Holocaust and the end of Jewish members in Germany
A night when Hitler sent out SS members to kill threats within the Nazi party
How many Jews were there in Germany in 1933?
15,000
5,000,000
500,000
155,000
Select 2 "reasons" of the Nazi persecution to Jews:
They were well educated
They were rude
They had different religious thoughts
They were more loved than the Nazis.
What names did Jewish men and women have to add to their own to make them identifiable as Jews?
Sarah and Isaac
Sarah and Israel
Mary and Joseph
Mirriam and Isaac
How many synagogues were destroyed on Kristallnacht?
100
160
200
None
What event saw the Nazis, temporarily, ease off on Anti-Jewish Laws?
1934 Saar referendium
1938 Munich Agreement
1938 World Cup
1936 Olympics
