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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