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I. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1.    What was the name given to mass killings of the Jews under Hitler’s regime? 
    (a)    Holocaust    
    (b)    Special    Treatment
    (c)    November criminals    
    (d)    None of these
2.    Germany fought the First World War against
    (a)    England    (b)    France 
    (c)    Russia    (d)    All of these
3.    Name the incident that started the Second World War.
    (a)    The Treaty of Versailles    
    (b)    Birth of the Weimar Republic
    (c)    Genocidal war     
    (d)    Germany’s attack on Poland
4.    When was the Enabling Act passed in Germany? 
    (a)    On 12th March 1933    
    (b)    On 3rd March 1933
    (c)    On 3rd February  1903    
    (d)    On 14th March 1932
5.    What was Auschwitz famous for?
    (a)    Centre for mass killings during Nazi Germany
    (b)    Centre for educating children during Nazi Germany
    (c)    Centre for giving military training to the youth during Nazi Germany
    (d)    None of the above
6.    On 30 January 1933 who offered the Chancellorship to Hitler?
    (a)    Soviet Red Army     
    (b)    King Kaiser William II 
    (c)    President Hindenburg    
    (d)    Hjalmar Schacht 
7.    Who was Hjalmar Schacht?
    (a)    Economist    (b)    Chancellor
    (c)    German soldier
    (d)    None of these
8.    Name the city where US dropped the first Atom bomb in Japan.
    (a)    Hiroshima    (b)    Auschwitz 
    (c)    Nagasaki    (d)    None of these
9.    When did the Second World War end? 
    (a)    11th June 1945     
    (b)    9th May 1945 
    (c)    9th May 1944     
    (d)    9th June 1945 
10.    Who were considered as inferiors and undesirables by Nazi Germany? 
    (a)    Jews
    (b)    Gypsies and Blacks
    (c)    Russians and Poles
    (d)    All of these
11.    What were the children taught in Germany under the Nazis?
    (a)    To be loyal and submissive
    (b)    To hate Jews 
    (c)    To worship Hitler    
    (d)    All of these
12.    Which party came to be known as the Nazi Party?
    (a)    German Workers’ Party
    (b)    National Socialist German Workers’ Party
    (c)    Socialist German Workers’ Party
    (d)    National German Workers’ Party
13.    What were ghettos?
    (a)    Political organisations
    (b)    Areas where Jews lived
    (c)    Playgrounds of German children
    (d)    Schools of Jews
14.    What does the Reichstag mean?
    (a)    German Coin    (b)    German State
    (c)    German Parliament    
    (d)    German Currency
15.    The concentration camps were
    (a)    safe places for the Jews
    (b)    unsafe places for the Germans
    (c)    places enclosed with live wires
    (d)    places where jews were jailed

Ans.    1.   (b)    2.   (d)    3.  (d)    4.   (b)  5.  (a)    6.  (c)   7.    (a)    8.   (a)    9.    (b)    10.    (d)    11.    (d)    12.    (b)   13.    (b)    14.   (c)    15.  (d).

II.        Very Short Answer Type Questions
Q1.    Name the countries against which Germany fought the First World War.
Ans.    England, Russia and France.
Q2.    What was Auschwitz famous for?
Ans.    Auschwitz was the centre for mass killings during Nazi Germany.
Q3.    Who offered the Chancellorship to Hitler on 30 January 1933?
Ans.    On 30 January 1933, President Hindenburg offered the Chancellorship to Hitler.
Q4.    Who were considered as inferiors and undesirables by Nazi Germany?
Ans.    Jews, Gypsies, Blacks, Russians and Poles were considered as inferiors and undesirables by Nazi Germany.
Q5.    What were the children taught in Germany under the Nazis? Mention two points.
Ans.    They were taught to     (i)    hate Jews      (ii)    worship Hitler.
Q6.    Which party came to be known as the Nazi Party?
Ans.    The National Socialist German Workers’ Party came to be known as the Nazi Party.
Q7.    What is the German Parliament known as?
Ans.    The German Parliament is known as the Reichstag.
Q8.    What is meant by a genocidal war?
Ans.    A genocidal war is a war which results in the mass killing leading to destruction of large sections of people.
Q9.    What was the opinion of the Germans about the new Weimar Republic?
Ans.    Many Germans held the new Weimar Republic for not only the defeat in the First World War but the disgrace at Versailles.
Q10.    Who were the supporters of the Weimar Republic?
Ans.    Socialists, Catholics and Democrats were the supporters of the Weimar Republic.
Q11.    What caused the depletion of gold reserves in Germany?
Ans.    Germany had fought the First World War largely on loans and had to pay war reparations in gold. This caused the depletion of gold reserves in the country.
Q12.    What did the Americans do to ease the financial burden on Germans?
Ans.    The Americans bailed Germany out of the crisis by introducing the Dawes Plan, which reworked the terms of reparation to cast the burden on Germans.
Q13.    What do you know about Wall Street Exchange?
Ans.    It is the name of the world’s biggest stock exchange located in the USA.
Q14.    How was the Great Depression proved a boon to Nazism?
Ans.    It was during the Great Depression that Nazism became a mass movement. People were facing hard time due to the economic crisis. In such a situation Nazi propaganda stirred hopes of a better future.
Q15.    Mention two promises made by Hitler.
Ans.    Hitler promised to—    (i)    build a strong nation.    (ii)    undo the injustice of the Versailles Treaty.
Q16.    What did Nazis do to demonstrate the support for Hitler?
Ans.    Nazis held massive rallies and public meetings to demonstrate the support for Hitler.
Q17.    How did Nazi propaganda project Hitler?
Ans.    Nazi propaganda projected Hitler as a messiah, a saviour, as someone who had arrived to deliver people from their distress.
Q18.    What was the first step that Hitler took after being the Chancellor of Germany?
Ans.    Hitler set out to dismantle the structures of democratic rule.
Q19.    Which act established Hitler’s dictatorship in Germany?
Ans.    The famous Enabling Act established Hitler’s dictatorship in Germany.
Q20.    What was the Gestapo?
Ans.    The Gestapo was secret state police under the control of the Nazis.
Q21.    What was a concentration camp?
Ans.    A concentration camp was a camp where people were isolated and detained without due process of law. Typically, it was surrounded by electrified barbed wire fences.
Q22.    Quote the slogan under which Hitler integrated Austria and Germany in 1938.
Ans.    The slogan was—‘One people, One empire, and One leader’.
Q23.    Hitler assigned the responsibility of economic recovery to the economist Hjalmar Schacht. Then why did he remove him?
Ans.    Schacht had advised Hitler against investing hugely in rearmament as the state still ran on deficit financing. Cautious people like Schacht had no place in Nazi Germany. He was immediately removed.
Q24.    How did Hitler view war?
Ans.    Hitler viewed war as the way out of the approaching economic crisis.
Q25.    What did Hitler do in September 1939? What was its result?
Ans.    In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. He started a war with France and England.
Q26.    What was the immediate cause of the USA’s entry in the Second World War?
Ans.    When Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombed the US base at Pearl Harbor, the US entered the Second World War.
Q27.    Who were the worst sufferers in Nazi Germany?
Ans.    Jews were the worst sufferers in Nazi Germany.
Q28.    “Hitler’s hatred of Jews was based on pseudo-scientific theories of  race.” Explain this statement.
Ans.    Hitler’s pseudo-scientific theories of race held that conversion was no solution to ‘the Jewish problem’. It could be solved only through their total domination.
Q29.    When was the Youth League of the Nazis founded? What was it renamed four years later?
Ans.    The Youth League of the Nazis was founded in 1922. Four years later it was renamed as Hitler Youth.
Q30.    What were boys and girls taught in Nazi Germany?
Ans.    Boys were taught to be aggressive, masculine and steel hearted, and girls were told that they had to become good mothers and rear pure-blooded Aryan children.

III.    Short Answer Type Questions
Q1.    Why was an International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg set-up at the end of the Second World War?
Ans.    (i) At the end of the Second World War, an International Tribunal at Nuremberg was set up to persecute Nazi war criminals for crimes against peace, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
    (ii)    Germany’s conduct during the war, especially those actions which came to be called Crimes Against Humanity, raised serious moral and ethical questions and invited worldwide condemnation.
    (iii)    However, the Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven leading Nazis to death. Many others were imprisoned for life.
Q2.    “The peace treaty of Versailles with Allies was a harsh and humiliating peace”. Explain this statement.            [HOTS]
Ans.    (i) As a result of this treaty 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.
    (ii)    The Allied Powers demilitarised Germany to weaken its power.
    (iii)    The War Guilt Clause held Germany responsible for the war and damages the allied countries suffered. Germany was forced to pay the compensation amounting to �6 billion.
    (iv)    The Allied armies also occupied the resource-rich Rhineland for much of the 1920s.
Q3.    What is hyperinflation? Why did this situation occur in Germany in 1923? Or
        What were the factors that led to hyperinflation in Germany?
Ans.    Hyperinflation is a situation when prices rise phenomenally high. This situation occurred in Germany in 1923 due to several reasons:
    (i)    Germany had fought the First World War largely on loans and had to pay the war compensation in gold. This depleted gold reserves at a time resources were scarce.
    (ii)    When Germany refused to pay the war compensation, France occupied its leading industrial area, Ruhr, to claim their coal.
    (iii)    Germany retaliated with passive resistance and printed paper currency recklessly. With too much printed money in circulation, the value of the German Mark fell. As a result, prices of goods soared. The image of Germans carrying cartloads of currency notes to buy a loaf of bread was widely publicised. This crisis came to be known as hyperinflation.
Q4.    What were the inherent defects of the Weimar Constitution which made it unstable?
Ans.    The Weimar Constitution had two inherent defects which made it unstable:
    (i)    The system of proportional representation finally led to a rule by coalitions because no single party managed to form the government. This affected the stability of the Weimar Constitution.
    (ii)    Another defect was Article 48. It gave the President the powers to impose emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree. Within its short life, the Weimar Republic saw twenty different cabinets lasting on an average 239 days, and a liberal use of Article 48.
Q5.    How did the Nazi party come into existence? What status did it enjoy by 1932?
Ans.    (i) The German defeat in the First World War horrified Hitler and the provisions of Versailles Treaty made him furious. In 1919, he joined a small group called the German Worker’s Party.
    (ii)    He subsequently took over the organisation and renamed it the National Socialist German Worker’s party. This party came to be known as the Nazi party.
    (iii)    The Nazi party could not get success till the early 1930s. In 1928, it got not more than 2.6 per cent votes in the Reichstag – the German Parliament. By 1932, it had become the largest party with 37 per cent votes. The party now began to project Hitler as a messiah, a saviour, as someone who had arrived to deliver people from their distress.
Q6.    What promises did Hitler make to the German people? How did he mobilise them?
Ans.    (i) Hitler promised to build a strong nation, undo the injustice of the Versailles Treaty and restore the dignity of the German people.
    (ii)    He promised employment for those looking for work, and a secure future for the youth.
    (iii)    He promised to weed out all foreign influences and resist all foreign ‘conspiracies’ against Germany.
        In order to mobilise German people, Hitler held massive rallies and public meetings. The Red banners with the Swastika, the Nazi salute and the ritualised rounds of applause after the speeches left deep influence on the minds of German people.
Q7.    What were the provisions of the famous Enabling Act?
Ans.    The famous Enabling Act was passed on 3 March 1933. The provisions of this Act are given below:
    (i)    The Act established Hitler’s dictatorship in Germany.
    (ii)    It gave Hitler all powers to sideline Parliament and rule by decree.
    (iii)    All political parties and trade unions were banned except for the Nazi party and its affiliates.
    (iv)    The state established complete control over the economy, media, army and judiciary.
    (v)    Special surveillance and security forces were created to control and order society in ways that the Nazis wanted.
Q8.    Why did the USA show unwillingness to get involved in the Second World War initially? Why did it change its attitude afterwards?
Ans.    In the beginning, the USA had resisted involvement in the war. It was unwilling once again to face all the economic problems that the First World War had caused. But it could not stay out of the war for long. Japan was expanding its power in the east. It had occupied French Indo-China and was planning attacks on US naval bases in the Pacific. When Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombed the US base at Pearl Harbor, the US entered the Second World War. The war ended in May 1945 with Hitler’s defeat and the US dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.
Q9.    What happened in schools under Nazism?
Ans.    Jews teachers were dismissed. Children were first segregated. German and Jews could not sit together or play together. Subsequently, ‘undesirable children’, i.e. Jews, the physically handicapped and Gypsies were thrown out of schools.
        German children were subjected to a process of Nazi schooling, a prolonged period of ideological training. School textbooks were re-written. Racial science was introduced to justify Nazi ideas of race. Stereotypes about Jews were popularised even through math classes. Children were taught to be loyal and submissive, hate Jews and worship Hitler. Even the function of sports was to nurture a spirit of violence and aggression among children.
Q10.    What was the status of mothers under Nazism?    [HOTS]
Ans.    Under Nazism all mothers were not treated equally. Women who bore racially undesirable children were punished and those who produced racially desirable children were awarded. They were given favoured treatment in hospitals and were also entitled to concessions in shops and on theatre tickets and railways fares. To encourage women to produce many children, Honour Crosses were awarded. A bronze cross was given for four children, silver for six and gold for eight or more.
Q11.    How did the common people of Germany react to Nazi ideology?        [HOTS]
Ans.    A bulk of the German common mass had deep faith in Nazi ideology. They showed deep hatred for Jews. Whenever they saw someone who looked like a Jew anger surged inside them. They marked the houses of Jews and reported suspicious neighbours. They genuinely believed that Nazism would bring prosperity and improve general well-being.
        But there were other Germans who were not at all influenced by the Nazis. They organised active resistance to Nazism, braving police repression and death. However, the large majority of Germans were passive onlookers and apathetic witnesses. They were too scared to act, to differ, to protest.
Q12.    How did the world come to know about the holocaust?    [HOTS]
Ans.    (i) Information about the Nazi practices came out of Germany during the last years of the regime. But, it was only after the war ended and Germany was defeated that the world came to realise the horrors of what had happened.
    (ii)    The Jews wanted the world to remember the killings and sufferings they had endured during the Nazi killing operations also called the Holocaust.
    (iii)    The documents left behind by ghetto and camp inhabitants, who wrote diaries, kept notebooks and created archives became the source of knowledge about the Holocaust.
Q13.    How did the Great Depression help Nazism become a mass movement?
Ans.    (i) The Nazis could not get popularity till the early 1930s. It was during the Great Depression that Nazism became a mass movement.
    (ii)    After 1929, banks collapsed and businesses shutdown, workers lost their jobs and the middle classes were threatened with destitution. In such a situation, Nazi propaganda stirred hopes of a better future.
    (iii)    In 1928, the Nazi got no more than 2-6 per cent votes in the Reichstag the German Parliament. By 1932, it had become the largest party with 37 per cent votes.
Q14.    Explain the three steps taken by Hitler to annihilate the Jews in Germany.
Ans. (i) Jews were the worst sufferers in Nazi Germany. They survived mainly through trade and money-lending. They lived in separately marked areas called ghettos. They were often persecuted through periodic organised violence, and expulsion from the land.
    (ii)    From 1933 to 1938 the Nazis terrorised, pauperised and segregated the Jews, compelling them to leave the country.
    (iii)    From 1939-1945 the Nazis aimed to concentrating them in certain areas and eventually killing them in gas chambers in Poland.
Q15.    Why did Hitler create surveillance forces in Germany besides the regular police?
Ans. (i) Special surveillance and security forces were created to control and order society in ways that the Nazis wanted.
    (ii)    Apart from the already existing regular police in green uniform and the SA or the Storm Troopers, these included the Gestapo (secret state police), the SS (the protection squads), criminal police and the Security Service (SD).
    (iii)    It was the extra constitutional powers of these newly organised forces that gave the Nazi state its reputation as the most dreaded criminal state.
    (iv)    People could now be detained in Gestapo torture chambers, rounded up and sent to concentration camps, deported at will or arrested without any legal procedures.
Q16.    State the two factors that prompted Hitler to attack the Soviet Union in June 1941. What fate did he meet at Stalingrad?    HOTS
Ans.    Two factors that prompted Hitler to attack the Soviet Union—
    (i)    Hitler wanted to achieve his long term aim of conquering Eastern Europe.
    (ii)    He wanted to ensure food supplies and living space for Germans.
        His attack on Soviet Union proved to be a historic blunder. Hitler exposed the German western front to British aerial bombing and the eastern front to the powerful Soviet armies. The Soviet Red Army inflicted a crushing and humitiating defeat on Germany at Stalingrad. After this, the Soviet Red Army hounded out the retreating German soldiers until they reached the heart of Berlin, establishing Soviet hegemony over the entire Eastern Europe for half a century thereafter.

IV. Long Answer Type Questions
Q1.    Explain how the Great Economic Depression affected the German economy.    [HOTS]
Ans.    The Great Economic Depression (1929-1932) hit the German economy very badly. By 1932, industrial production was reduced to 40 per cent of the 1929 level. Workers lost their jobs or were paid reduced wages. The number of unemployed touched an unprecedented 6 million.
Unemployed youths played cards or simply sat at street corners, or desperately queued up at the local employment exchange. In dearth of jobs, the youth took to criminal activities.
There were deep anxieties and fears in people. The middle classes, especially salaried employees and pensioners, saw their savings diminish when the currency lost its value. Small businessmen, the self-employed and retailers suffered as their businesses got ruined. These sections of society were filled with the fear of being reduced to the ranks of the working class or worse still, the unemployed.
The large mass of peasantry was badly affected by a sharp fall in agricultural prices and women, unable to fill their children’s stomachs, were filled with a sense of deep despair.
Q2.    What did Hitler do to overcome the economic crisis that badly hit the German economy?    [HOTS] Or
        Give an account of Hitler’s policy of economic reconstruction of Germany.
Ans.    After establishing his dictatorship in Germany, Hitler turned his attention towards the economic reconstruction of the country. He assigned the responsibility of economic recovery to the economist Hjalmar Schacht who aimed at full production and full employment through a state-funded work-creation programme. This project produced the famous German superhighways and the people’s car, the Volkeswagen.
Hitler’s foreign policy also got quick success. He pulled out the League of Nations in 1933, reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936 and integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan, One people, One empire and One leader. He then went on to rest German speaking Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and took over the entire country.
Hitler didn’t know to stop. He chose war as the way out of the approaching economic crisis. Resources were to be accumulated through expansion of territory. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. This started a war with France and England. In September 1940, a Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan strengthening Hitler’s claim to international power.
Hitler now turned towards conquering Eastern Europe. He wanted to ensure food supplies and living space for Germans. He attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941.  But he could not get success. This step of Hitler proved to be a historic blunder.
Q3.    Give a brief description of Nazi racial state. Or
        What measures did Hitler take to create an exclusive racial community of pure Germans?    [HOTS]
Ans.    Hitler’s most cherished dream was to create an exclusive racial community of pure Germans. So the moment he came into power, he began to implement his dream. He wanted to physically eliminate all those who were seen as ‘undesirables’ in extended empire. Nazis wanted only a society of ‘pure and healthy Nordic Aryans’. They alone were considered ‘desirables’. Only they were seen as worthy of prospering and multiplying against all others who were classed as ‘undesirables’. This meant that even those Germans who were seen as impure or abnormal had no right to exist.
 Along with Jews, Gypsies and Blacks were also living in Nazi Germany. They all were classified as ‘undesirables’. They were viewed as racial ‘inferiors’ who threatened the biological purity of the ‘Superior Aryan’ race. Hence, they were widely persecuted. Even Russians and Poles were considered sub-human. When Germany occupied Poland and parts of Russia, captured civilians were forced to work as slave labour.
However, Jews remained the worst target of Hitler. They lived in separately marked areas called Ghettos. They were often persecuted through periodic organised violence, and expulsion from the land. Hitler was not satisfied with this only. He wanted total elimination of the Jews. From 1933 to 1938, the Nazis terrorised, pauperised and segregated the Jews, compelling them to leave the country. The next phase, 1939-1945, aimed at concentrating them in certain areas and eventually killing them in gas chambers in Poland.
Polish children who looked like Aryans were forcibly snatched from their mothers and examined by ‘race experts’. If they passed the race tests, they were raised in German families and if not, they were deposited in orphanages where most perished.

V. Source-Based Questions
Q1.    Read the following extract (Source B) taken from NCERT Textbook, page 61 and answer the questions that follow:

‘In an era when the earth is gradually being divided up among states, some of which embrace almost entire continents, we cannot speak of a world power in connection with a formation whose political mother country is limited to the absurd area of five hundred kilometers.’
Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 644.

    (i)    Where has the above-mentioned source been taken from?
    (ii)    What is the imperial ambition of Hitler expressed in the above extract?
Ans.    (i) The above-mentioned source has been taken from Hitler’s Mein Kampf; p. 644.
    (ii)    Hitler wanted to extend German boundaries by moving eastwards to concentrate all Germans geographically in one place.
Q2.    Read the following extract (Source C) taken from NCERT Textbook, page 67 and answer the questions that follow:
All boys between the ages of six and ten went through a preliminary training in Nazi ideology. At the end of the training they had to take the following oath of loyalty to Hitler:

‘In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Fuhrer I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the saviour of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God.’
From W. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    (i)    Who were supposed to get a preliminary training in Nazi ideology?
    (ii)    What did they do at the end of the training?
    (iii)    What oath did they take?
Ans.    (i)    Boys between the ages six and ten were supposed to get a preliminary training in Nazi ideology.
    (ii)    At the end of the training they took an oath of loyalty to Hitler.
    (iii)    The oath that each boy took was—‘In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Fuhrer I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the saviour of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God.’

VI. Picture-based Questions
Q.    Observe the picture given below taken from NCERT Textbook, page 57 carefully and answer the following questions:

    (i)    The swastika sign shown in the above picture belonged to which party?
    (ii)    Who was the head of that party? Throw light on his personality.
Ans.    (i) Swastika sign shown in the above picture belonged to the Nazi party.
    (ii)    Adolf Hitler was the head of the Nazi party. Hitler was a powerful speaker. His personality and his words moved people. He invented a new style of politics. His hypnotic speeches attracted all classes of German people whose sense of dignity and pride had been shattered while living in a period of acute economic and political crisis. Hitler established a dictatorship in his regime and was portrayed as a messiah to the Germans.

VII. Value-based Questions
Q1.    Hitler was frantically interested in the youth of the country. He felt that a strong Nazi society could be established only by increasing the number of ‘good German’ children and by teaching them Nazi ideology. He wanted to promote sports such as boxing among them.
Give three values which can be reflected from the game like boxing.
Ans.    (i) Hitler believed that boxing could make children steel-hearted and tough.
    (ii)    The game could make them strong enough to tackle any situation.
    (iii)    Further, the game could make children masculine. Unless they felt masculine, they could not be the saviour of their country.
Q2.    Suppose you are a German boy under Nazi Germany and have attained the age of 14. As expected, you have been asked to join the Nazi Youth Organisation i.e., Hitler organisation. But you decide not to join this organisation.
        Why do you take such a decision?
Ans.    I take such a decision because I know that once I join the organisation, I’ll have to learn to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy, and hate Jews, communists, Gypsies, etc. I can’t do all these. I am a great liberal and believe in the service of mankind. I can’t look down upon Jews and other communities. They also are human beings and have full right to enjoy equal status.
Q3.    Here is the letter written by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler on June 23rd, 1939.

Give five values which can be reflected from the above letter.
Ans.     (i)    Non-violence
        (ii)    A deep sense of humanity
        (iii)    Forbearance
        (iv)    Peace
        (v) Humility

VIII. Map Skills
Q1.    On an outline map of Europe, show the expansion of Nazi power in 1942.

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Q2.  On an outline map of the world, locate and label the following major countries of the Second World War.      (as per the CBSE Map List 2017-18)
        Axis Powers – Germany, Italy, Japan
        Allied Powers – UK, France, Former USSR, USA
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Q3.    On an outline map of the world, locate and label the territories which were under German expansion (Nazi power):
        Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia (only Slovakia), Denmark, Lithuania, France, Belgium(as per the CBSE Map List 2017-18)    
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Test Your skills
    1.    What were the main reasons of the birth of the Weimar Republic in Germany?
    2.    How was the German economy affected by the Great Economic Depression?
    3.    How did the economic crisis in Germany affect people in general?
    4.    How was the Weimar Republic politically fragile and weak?
    5.    Many others were also punished along with Jews in the Nazi Germany. Who were they?