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 5 marks each.
- Name the scientist who discovered the theory of natural selection and evolution.
- Which Nazi youth organization consisted of all German of 14 to 18 years of age?
- What was Article 48 of Weimer Republic?
- Who wrote the book ‘Third Reich of Dreams’?
- Write a short note on Tripartite Pact.
- Highlight the issue on which differences were raised between Hitler and Schacht.
- How was the Art of Propaganda used by Nazis to justify their acts?
- What were the ideas of Hitler on the racial state?
- What were the steps taken by Hitler to strengthen the Nazi youth and children?
- Highlight the Nazi cult of Motherland.
- Explain the contribution of Schacht in the economic recovery of Germany.
- How was the Great Economic Depression of 1929-1932 destroyed German economy?
CBSE TEST PAPER-04
Class –IX Social Science (Nazism and Rise of Hitler)
[ANSWERS]
1) Charles Darwin
2) Hitler Youth
3) It gave the President the power to impose emergency, suspended civil rights and rule by
decree.
4) Charlotte Beradt
5) a) In September 1940, a Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan,
strengthening Hitler’s claim to international power.
b) The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by
any nation not already involved in the war.
c) This formalizing of the alliance was aimed directly at “neutral” America–designed to
force the United States to think twice before venturing in on the side of the Allies.
d) The Pact also recognized the two spheres of influence. Japan acknowledged “the
the leadership of Germany and Italy in the establishment of a new order in Europe,”
while Japan was granted lordship over “Greater East Asia.”
6) a) Schacht had advised Hitler against investing hugely in rearmament as the state still
ran on deficit financing.
b) Cautious people, however, had no place in Nazi Germany.
c) Schacht had to leave. Hitler chose war as the way out of the approaching economic
crisis.
7) a) Antisemitic propaganda was a common theme in Nazi propaganda. Hitler presented
the Jews as behind all of Germany’s moral and economic problems, as featured in
both Bolshevism and international capitalism.[1] He blamed “money-grubbing Jews”
for all of Weimar Germany’s economic problems.
b) Nazis used language and media were effective.
c) They used special words for mass killings-Special treatment, final solution, Jew
euthanasia, selection and disinfection.
d) Media was used to win support for the regime and popularize its worldview.
e) Propaganda films were made to defame the Jews, who were stereotyped and referred
to as vermin, rats and pests.
8) a) Hitler’s racial ideology stemmed from what he called “the basic principle of the
blood.”
b) This meant that the blood of every person and every race contained the soul of a
person and likewise the soul of his race, the Volk.
c) Hitler believed that the Aryan race, to which all “true” Germans belonged, was the
race whose blood (soul) was of the highest degree.
d) God Himself had, in fact, created the Aryans as the a perfect men, both physically and
spiritually.
e) Since the blood (soul) of the Aryans contained specific spiritual energies, the “cultural
energies” or “racial primal elements, as Hitler often called them, the Aryans supplied
the culture that creates the beauty and dignity of higher humanity.
9) a) Hitler believed that a strong Nazi society could be established only by teaching
children Nazi Ideology.
b) Children were controlled both inside and outside schools which were cleansed and
German children were segregated from Jews, gipsies and other children.
c) Good German children were brainwashed about Nazi ideas of race and ideology of
aggression and violence.
d) Youth organizations like Jungvolk and Hitler Youth were created to worship war,
glorify aggression and violence, and hate democracy and undesirable elements.
10) a) The cult of motherhood adopted by the Nazis considered women lesser than men in
terms of responsibility.
b) The rules exerted by this regime allowed women only to carry out their motherly
duties such as ensuring children were educated and to take care of their families at
home, being good spouses.
c) Women were not to hold any positions of responsibilities in the society, like getting
into politics or pursuing education.
d) The Nazis exalted the men more, viewing the German men as more superior,
especially in terms of combat skills.
e) Women had to be good mothers and rear pure-blooded Aryans.
f) Women who bore racially desirable children were awarded and those who did not be
punished.
11) a) Hitler assigned the responsibility of economic recovery to the economist Hjalmar
Schacht.
b) He aimed at full production and full employment through a state-funded workcreation program.
c) This project produced the famous German superhighways and the people’s car, the
Volkswagen.
d) Schacht had advised Hitler against investing hugely in rearmament as the state still
ran on deficit financing.
e) Cautious people, however, had no place in Nazi Germany. Schacht had to leave.
12) a) The German economy was the worst hit by the economic crisis. By 1932, industrial
production was reduced to 40 percent of the 1929 level.
b) Workers lost their jobs or were paid reduced wages.
c) The number of unemployed touched an unprecedented 6 million.
d) On the streets of Germany, you could see men with placards around their neck saying,
“willing to work”. Unemployment youths play cards and simply sat at street corners,
or destroyed queued up at the local employment exchange.
e) The middle classes, especially salaried employees and pensioners, saw their savings
diminish when the currency lost its value
