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6. What was Operation Barbarossa?

  • The German invasion of Poland
  • The German invasion of Britain
  • The German invasion of the Soviet Union
  • The German invasion of Czechoslovakia

7. Which was NOT a problem faced by the Weimar government?

  • Lack of freedom of speech
  • A need to pay huge reparation sums to the League of Nations following the Treaty of Versailles
  • Uprisings from the political right, wishing to restore autocracy
  • Uprisings from the political left, wishing to establish a communist state

8. Britain's intervention in WWI was provoked by the German invasion of which country?

  • Norway
  • Belgium
  • Poland
  • Italy

9. Which country was NOT taken over by Germany in 1940?

  • Britain
  • Luxembourg
  • France
  • Denmark

10. Which country was alarmed by German naval expansion?

  • Spain
  • The USA
  • Britain
  • Austria-Hungary

11. Which country did Germany sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with in 1918?

  • Romania
  • Russia
  • The USA
  • Czechoslovakia

12. Which two countries was the Schlieffen Plan intended to strike against?

  • France and Russia
  • Britain and the USA
  • Britain and France
  • Britain and Russia

13. What was the name of the attempt made by the Nazis to establish a right-wing state?

  • The Spartacist Uprising
  • The Munich Putsch
  • The Kapp Putsch
  • The occupation of the Ruhr

14. Who was the first president of the Weimar Republic?

  • Friedrich Ebert
  • Erich von Ludendorff
  • Josef Goebbels
  • Gustav Stresseman

15. Who was the ruler of Germany in 1900?

  • Otto von Bismarck
  • Wilhelm II
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Wilhelm I

16. Who brought in the rentenmark and solved the hyperinflation problem?

  • Adolf Hitler
  • Gustav Stresseman
  • Friedrich Ebert
  • Herman Goering

17. Which of these factors does NOT account for Nazi electoral success in the early 1930s?

  • Many business owners saw the Nazis as preferable to the communists
  • Many workers were part of a trade union
  • Intimidation of political opponents
  • Nazi propaganda played on anti-Semitism and hatred of the Trety of Versailles

18. Hitler committed suicide after the troops of which nation entered Berlin?

  • The Soviet Union
  • France
  • Britain
  • The USA

19. What is the name for the trial of Nazi war criminals in 1946?

  • The Hamburg Trials
  • The Berlin Trials
  • The Nuremberg Trials
  • The Dresden Trials

20. Who was Germany's primary ally between 1900 and 1914?

  • The USA
  • Britain
  • Austria-Hungary
  • France