Important Questions
Nazism and the Rise of Hitler
Question Answers:
1.When did Germany surrender to the Allies ?
Ans: In May 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies.
2. How did Hitler and his propaganda minister and his entire family die ?
Ans: Anticipating what was coming, Hitler, his propaganda minister Goebbels and his entire family committed suicide collectively.
3. Where did Hitler die ?
Ans: In his Berlin bunker in April 1945.
4. Write a note on the Tribunal which was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals against peace ?
Ans: At the end of the war, an International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals for Crimes against Peace, for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.
5. What are Allied Powers ?
Ans: The Allied Powers were initially led by the UK and France.In 1941 they were joined by the USSR and USA. They fought against the Axis Powers, namely Germany, Italy and Japan.
6. What are Axis Powers ?
Ans: The Axis Powers were Germany, Japan and Italy they came together with a common purpose to expand their territories all over against the Allies.
7. Who waged the genocidal war ?
Ans: Under the shadow of the Second World War, Germany had waged a genocidal war.
8. What was genocidal war ?
Ans: This was resulted in the mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians of Europe.
The number of people killed included 6 million Jews, 200,000 Gypsies, 1 million Polish civilians,70,000 Germans who were considered mentally and physically disabled, besides innumerable political opponents.
9. What do you mean by Auschwitz ?
Ans: Nazis devised an unprecedented means of killing people, that is, by gassing them in various killing centres like Auschwitz. The Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven, leading Nazis to death. Many others were imprisoned for life. The retribution did come, yet the punishment of the Nazis was far short of the brutality and extent of their crimes.
10. What was the name of Germany and its alliances during world war I?
Ans: Central Powers.
11. Give a note on Germany and first world war.
Ans: 1.Germany, a powerful empire in the early years of the twentieth century, fought the First World War (1914-1918) alongside the Austrian empire and against the Allies (England, France and Russia).
2. All joined the war enthusiastically hoping to gain from a quick victory. Little did they realize that the war would stretch on, eventually draining Europe of all its resources.
3. Germany made initial gains by occupying France and Belgium. However the Allies, strengthened by the US entry in 1917, won , defeating Germany and the Central Powers in November 1918.
12. What is the name of German Parliament ?
Ans: Reichstag.
13. Trace out the initial developments in Germany after its defeat in first world war in 1918 ?
Ans: The defeat of Imperial Germany and the abdication of the emperor gave an opportunity to parliamentary parties to recast German polity.
A National Assembly met at Weimar and established a democratic constitution with a federal structure. Deputies were now elected to the German Parliament or Reichstag, on the basis of equal and universal votes cast by all adults including women.
This republic, however, was not received well by its own people largely because of the terms it was forced to accept after Germany's defeat at the end of the First World War.
14. What were the results of the Treaty of Versailles within the Germany ?
Ans The Peace Treaty at Versailles with the Allies was a harsh and humiliating peace. Germany lost its overseas colonies, a tenth of its population, 13 per cent of its territories,75 per cent of its iron and 26 per cent of its coal to France, Poland,Denmark and Lithuania. The Allied Powers demilitarized Germany to weaken its power. The War Guilt Clause held Germany responsible for the war and the damaged Allied countries suffered. Germany was forced to pay compensation amounting to £6 billion. The Allied armies also occupied the resource-rich Rhineland for much of the 1920s. Many Germans held the new Weimar Republic responsible for not only the defeat in the war but the disgrace at Versailles.