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.
- Which was the most famous film in which orthodox Jews were stereotyped and marked?
- What was the immediate cause of World War II?
- Who was Hitler’s Propaganda Minister?
- What was Genocide war?
- Write a short note on the foreign policy of Hitler.
- Write a short note on the economic policy of Hitler.
- What were the suggestions given by Gandhiji to Hitler?
- What were the promises made by Hitler to the people of Germany?
- Explain the Nazi education policy.
- Explain any three reasons that led to the German invasion of Soviet Union.
- What were the main problems faced by the Weimer Republic in Germany?
- “Politically, the Weimer Republic was fragile”. Explain.
CBSE TEST PAPER-05
Class –IX Social Science (Nazism and Rise of Hitler)
[ANSWERS]
1) The Eternal Jews
2) Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 was the immediate cause of World War II.
3) Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi
Germany from 1933 to 1945.
4) It was a war which resulted in the mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians of
Europe.
5) a) Hitler pulled out of the League of Nations and reoccupied the Rhineland.
b) He integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan one people one leader.
c) He occupied Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.
d) In 1940 a Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan,
strengthening Hitler’s claim to international power.
6) a) Hitler assigned the responsibility for economic recovery to the economist Hjalmar
Schacht.
b) A program of state-funded economic reconstruction was launched aiming at full
production and full employment.
c) Unemployment had fallen from 6 million in 1933 to 300,000 by 1939.
d) Industrial production in 1939 was above the figure for Weimar Germany before the
1929 Wall Street Crash.
e) Government income increased from 10 billion Reichsmarks in 1928 to 15 billion in
1939.
f) Young people planted forests, repaired river banks and helped reclaim wasteland.
g) All men aged between the ages of nineteen and twenty-five had worked for the
government for six months.
7) a) Gandhiji wrote him that you are the person who can prevent a war which may reduce
humanity to the savage state.
b) Gandhiji appealed him to say that through non-violence technique, there is no such
thing as defeat.
c) It is all ‘do or die’ without killing or hurting.
d) Gandhi appealed him to, in the name of humanity to stop the war.
8) a) He promised to build a strong nation, undo the injustice of the Versailles Treaty and
restore the dignity f the German people.
b) He promised employment for those looking for work, and a secure future for the
youth.
c) He promised to weed out all foreign influences and resist all foreign conspiracies
against Germany.
9) a) Schools and educational institutions were also used to spread the Nazi Ideology.
b) School textbooks were rewritten.
c) Racial science was introduced to justify the Nazi ideas of race.
d) Hitler believed that boxing could make children iron-hearted, strong and masculine.
10) a) Hitler wanted to achieve his long-term aim of conquering Eastern Europe.
b) He wanted to ensure food supplies and living space for German.
c) Hitler attacked the Soviet Union as it was part of his policy of expansionism and
control over Eastern Europe.
So he attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941.
11) a) Germany lost its overseas colonies, a tenth of its population, 13 percent of its colonies,
75 percent of its iron and 26 percent of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark, and
Lithuania.
b) The Weimer Republic was being made to pay for the sins of the old empire.
c) The republic carried the burden of war guilt and national humiliation and was
financially crippled by being forced to pay compensation.
d) Those who supported the Weimer Republic, mainly Socialists, Catholics, and
Democrats, became easy targets of attack in the conservative nation.
e) The German state was financially crippled due to overwhelming war debts which had
to pay in gold.
f) The French occupied Germany’s chief industrial area-the Ruhr-to exact debts when
the Weimar government refuses to pay.
g) The uninhibited printing of paper money caused the value of the German mark to fall
considerably, thereby causing hyperinflation.
12) a) Politically, too the Weimer Republic was Fragile. The Weimer Constitution had some
inherent defects, which made it unstable and vulnerable to dictatorship.
b) One was proportional representation. This made achieving a majority by any one
party a near impossible task, leading to a rule by coalition.
c) Another defect was Article 48, which gave the President the power to impose
emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree.
d) Within its short life, the Weimar Republic saw twenty different cabinets lasting on an
average 239 days, and a liberal use Article 48.
e) Yet the crises could not manage. People lost confidence in the democratic
parliamentary system, which seemed to offer no solutions
