General Instruction:
All Questions are Compulsory.
Question No. 1 to 4 carries one mark each.
Question No. 5 and 10 carry three marks each.
Question No. 11 and 12 carry five marks each.
- Where was an International Tribunal set up to try the war criminals?
- Name the people’s car produced in Germany.
- Name the place where people were isolated and detained without due process of law.
- Which was the highest post in the cabinet of Ministers in Germany?
- Highlight any three features of the new style of politics devised by Hitler.
- Mention any two methods adopted for the extermination of Jews.
- Explain the idea of survival of Herbert.
- Describe the condition of Polish people under Nazism.
- Evaluate the role of women in the Nazi Society.
- What do you understand by the Second Front in the Second World War?
- Briefly, describe the role of the International Military Tribunal set up after the Second
World War? - Explain any five features of Hitler’s foreign policy.
CBSE TEST PAPER-03
Class –IX Social Science (Nazism and Rise of Hitler)
[ANSWERS]
- Nuremberg
2. Volkswagen
3. Concentration Camps
4. Chancellor
5) a) Hitler devised a new style of politics. He understood the significance of rituals and
spectacles in mass mobilization.
b) Nazis held massive rallies and public meetings to demonstrate the support for Hitler
and instill a sense of unity among the people.
c) The red banners with the ‘Swatika’, the Nazi Salute, and the ritualized rounds of
applause after the speeches were all part of this spectacle of power.
6) a) German mobile killing squads, called special duty units (Einsatzgruppen), are
assigned to kill Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union.
b) At first, the mobile killing squads shoot primarily Jewish men. Soon, wherever the
mobile killing squads go, they shoot all Jewish men, women, and children, without
regard for age or gender.
c) The Chelmno killing centre begins operation. The Nazis later establish five other such
camps
d) The carbon monoxide gas generated by stationary engines attached to gas chambers.
e) Millions of Jews are killed in the gas chambers in the killing centres as part of the
“Final Solution.”
7) a) Herbert’s idea of survival of the fittest formed the basis of Hitler’s idea of survival of
the best race.
b) According to Herbert’s idea, only those species survived on the earth that could adapt
themselves to changing climatic conditions.
c) His ideas were used by Hitler to imperial rule over conquered people.
8) The condition of the polish under nazis can be explained as follows:
a) Polish were treated subhuman and they were classified as undeserving for any kind
of humanity.
b) They were captured and forced to work as slave labour.
c) When Poland was occupied, Polish were forced to leave their home.
d) Polish intelligentsia was killed in order to keep polish people devoid of any kind of
spirituality and guidance.
e) Polish kids went through the race tests if they passed they were given to German
families and if didn’t they were given to orphanages.
9) a) In Nazi Germany, young people and children were told women were radically
different from men.
b) Girls were told to prove good mothers and bring up pure blooded Aryans, look after
the home and teach their children the Nazi values.
c) Those mothers who produced racially desirable children were awarded given
favoured treatment in hospitals, concessions in shops, theatres and even in railways.
10) a) The second front refers to Stalin’s wish for the western allies open another front in
Europe in 1942 against the Germans to take the pressure of the Russians on the
Eastern Front. (An invasion of France)
b) In 1944, British and American troops landed on the coast of Normandy in France and
opened another Front against Germany.
c) This front is known as the Second Front. Now Germany has to fight on the many
Fronts.
11) a) The International Military Tribunal was set up at Nuremberg in1945, six and a half
months after the second world war to conduct trials on the Nazis for their inhuman
acts.
b) These were considered as a crime against Humanity and tried in a court where all the
Allied powers had representation.
c) All the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis during the course of the war against Jews,
Poles, Russians, and Czechs were condemned and some prominent Nazis were
punished.
d) The medical experiments conducting the laws were also condemned and the
Nuremberg code of ethics in medicine was listed prohibiting the use of humans and
the conducting of such inhuman and gruesome experiments without consent.
e) The Nazi organisation like Gestapo, Secret Police and Stormtroopers were named as
criminal.
12) a) In foreign policy also Hitler acquired quick success.
b) He pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933, reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936, and
integrates Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan, one people, one empire,
and one leader.
c) He then went on to wrest German-speaking Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and
gobbled up the entire country.
d) In all of this, he had the unspoken support of England, which had considered the
Versailles verdict too harsh.
e) These quick successes at home and abroad seemed to reverse the destiny of the
country
