World War 2 test recap

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Topics of the test

3.1: Nazi-Germany prepares for war
3.4: the German occupation of the Netherlands

3.5: discrimination & genocide

3.1: Nazi-Germany prepares for war

Main points to know:

- Nazi ideology and Lebensraum

- Why the treaty of Versailles failed to stop Germany

- How the nazi's militarised Germany

- What 'appeasement' was and how it failed to stop the nazi's

What was the idea of uniting all German people in one country called?

1. Lebensborn
2. Lebensraum
3. Heim ins Reich
4. Endlösung

Which country was -not- at risk because of Heim ins Reich?

1. Poland
2. Czechoslovakia
3. Austria
4. Switzerland

What did the Treaty of Versailles say about Germany's army?

1. They could only have transport planes, no fighters
2. They could only have surface ships, no submarines
3. They could have an army, but only 100k soldiers large
4. They were banned from having an army completely

What what the goal behind the Hitler Jugend?

1. To provide afterschool activities for kids
2. To indoctrinate the newer generations of Germans into nazism
3. To train young boys to later join the army
4. To show the world how much Hitler loved kids

Why did the Germans send soldiers to the Spanish civil war?

1. To make sure general Franco would lose
2. To trial-run their army tactics without going to war
3. To honour the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648
4. Because the nazi's saw the Spanish as a brother nation

Why did the nazi's set up the Saar plebiscite in 1936?

1. So they could peacefully annex the Sudentenland
2. So they could see how far they could push France and the UK
3. So they could sign an alliance with Italy
4. So they could restart their heavy industry

What was discussed at the Munich Conference?

1. That Hitler could annex Poland but nothing more
2. That Hitler could annex the Sudentenland but nothing more
3. That Hitler could annex Austria but nothing more
4. That Hitler could annex Czechoslovakia but nothing more

What did the British claim to have won at the Munich Conference?

1. Peace in our time!
2. A friendship with Hitler!
3. Safety for the UK!
4. Profitable arms deals with Germany!

3.4 - German occupation of NLD

Main points to know:

- Dutch neutrality politics before 1940

- How and why the German army defeated NLD in a few days

- The role of collaborators in the occupation, i.e. the NSB

- The methods of nazification of NLD

- The start of the Jewish persecution

- Resistance in NLD

How did the Dutch hope to stop any invaders?

1. Lure them to the sea and have the navy shoot them
2. Flood the lands and create a giant fortress
3. Repell them at the border with superior firepower
4. The Dutch didn't have a plan for this event

Why did the Germans invade NLD?

1. Because they wanted to secure the Dutch coastline
2. Because they wanted to annex the country
3. Because NLD had a large Jewish population
4. Because NLD had sided with Britain and France

What happened to the Dutch government during the occupation

1. The queen was locked up and NSB'ers ran everything
2. The queen was locked up and the nazi's ran everything
3. The queen fled the country and the nazi's ran everything
4. the queen fled the country and NSB'ers ran everything

Why did so many Dutchmen sign up for work in Germany?

1. Because they were all hardcore nazi's
2. Because a lot of people were poor and unemployed
3. Because it was much safer in Germany
4. Because their priests told them to

Why did so many Dutchmen join the SS?

1. Because they hated Jews
2. Because they hated communism
3. Because they wanted adventure
4. Because they thought Germany won the war already

3.5: Discrimination & Genocide

Main points to know:

- How the racist laws impacted different groups in Germany

- The racial ideas of the nazi's

- The Neuremberg Laws and how they dehumanised the Jews

- How the Holocaust started on the Eastern front

- How and why the nazi's committed genocide on an industrial scale

Why did the nazi's reward women who had many children?

1. Because they bred new soldiers for the army
2. Because the Germans needed to outbreed other races of people
3. Because the nazi's viewed the women's place as a housewife
4. Because they wanted to politicise every aspect of life in Germany

What were 'Lebensborn' children exactly?

1. Handicapped children the nazi's wanted to execute
2. Jewish children that looked German enough to let live
3. 'Racially pure' orphans and foundlings raised by SS families
4. All the children born to SS members

How did the nazi treatment of mentally ill and handicapped people foreshadow the Holocaust?

1. They sent these people to camps to be killed
2. They used gas chambers to kill these people
3. They were sent to the Eastern front to be killed there
4. They were put on ships to be sunk in the Baltic Sea

How could non-Jewish Germans be targeted by the Jewish persecutions as well?

1. People would get beaten up for 'looking Jewish'
2. People lost their jobs if their boss was Jewish
3. People in relationships with Jews were called 'race traitors'
4. Non-Jewish people weren't at risk to be targeted at all

The Holocaust was:

1. Quite unorganised at first but became heavily planned in later years
2. heavily organised from the start of the war
3. never really a structured event with central planning
4. Very centrally planned at first but became more unorganised later

Besides Jewish people, which other groups were targeted in the Holocaust?

1. African people
2. Asian people
3. Roma/Sinti people
4. Slavic people

Besides Jewish people, which other groups were targeted in the Holocaust?

1. Liberals
2. Christian democrats
3. Communists
4. Monarchists

Besides Jewish people, which other groups were persecuted by the nazi's?

1. Protestants
2. Jehova's Witnesses
3. Freemasons
4. Catholics

How did the nazi's justify their genocide of the Jews?

1. They claimed the Jews aimed to destroy the German people
2. They claimed that the Jews and communists were the same group
3. They claimed the Jews caused Germany to lose WW1
4. They claimed the Jews secretly controlled the world

The Wehrmacht wasn't involved in the Holocaust, true or false?

1. True because they were regular soldiers unlike the SS
2. Untrue because they helped deport and execute Soviet Jews
3. True because regular Germans didn't know about the Holocaust
4. Untrue because the Wehrmacht had orders to shoot Jews on sight

With 'Wir haben es nicht gewüsst" the German people meant

1. to say they didn't know the nazi's would start a war
2. to say they weren't aware of the genocides
3. to say they didn't expect to lose the war
4. to say they didn't know there was a war going on