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WW2 Review Events Leading to War

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  • What political party did Hitler join after WW1 (note: he had been commissioned to spy on it)
    The Democrat Party
    The Communist Party
    The Republican Party
    The German Worker's Party
  • Who wrote a diary about hiding out from the Nazis in secret rooms in Amsterdam?
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Anne Frank
    Gerda Weissmann Klein
    Helen Keller
  • True or False Hitler's father and him both agreed that Austria should never by part of Germany.
    False
  • Who was Hitler's right-hand man who helped with making concentration camps?
    Heinrich Himmler
    Herman Goering
    Paul von Hindenburg
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • How did Nazis view their own people compared to other groups of people?
    As higher or better than other people groups
    As lower than other people groups
    As equal to other people groups
  • Within his private army, Hitler had a secret police to do bad stuff. What was it called?
    the Gestapo
    the CIA
    the KGB
    the Reichstag
  • Who was involved in a secret plot to kill Hitler?
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Gerda Weissman Klein
    Anne Frank
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Who was a Polish person who survived a concentration camp partially because of snow boots?
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Anne Frank
    Gerda Weissmann Klein
  • While in prison for trying to take over the Bavarian government, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf about...
    His struggle to build a pure German race & conquer Europe
    His desire to unite with the Communists of Russia
    His wonderful childhood and his family
    His camp and the fun he had there
  • As a school-age child, Adolf Hitler was...
    Funny, happy, and well-liked
    Kind, devoted to Jesus, and loved by others
    Shy, friendly, and calm
    Hard to handle, a ringleader, and violent
  • What happened on "The Night of Broken Glass" or "Kristalnacht"?
    Stained glass windows in churches were smashed.
    Jewish synagogues, homes, & businesses were attacked.
    A special night time Christmas celebration in Germany.
    A giant glass factory blew up in Berlin.
  • Who was a Christian who was arrested for helping to hide Jews in the Netherlands?
    Anne Frank
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Gerda Weissman Klein
  • What did Hitler force the Jews to wear to show that they were Jewish?
    A German flag
    A swastika
    A yellow star (6-sided star)
    A name tag
  • How did Hitler feel about Germany signing the armistice to end WW1?
    Wished he had fought for the allies instead of Germany.
    Buried his head in his hands and wept.
    Glad the war was over.
  • What were two "menaces" to society that Hitler wrote about?
    Marxism and Jewish people
    Chocolate and fun
    Democracy and non-Christians
    Fascism and British people
  • What does Der "Fuhrer" mean and when did he adopt that title?
    The Captain, when he joined the army
    The Fighter, when he was a teenager
    The Leader, after he took over as president and chancellor
    The Author, when he wrote Mein Kampf
  • Many think ________ was behind Hitler because of the Thule society, which was involved with the occult.
    A group of presidents
    Zeus
    Stalin
    Satan
  • What type of regime was the Nazi's labelled as?
    Communist
    Monarchist
    Fascist
    Democratic
  • True or False- Hitler ended up being the chancellor of Germany
    True
  • What happened to people who opposed the Nazis?
    spent a week in local jail and paid a fine of 500 marks
    went to concentration camps or were killed
    were exiled to Russia
    were asked nicely to explain their viewpoint
  • Hitler's private army was known first as the "brownshirts", then what?
    SS (short for Schutzstaffel)
    Blackshirts
    Abwehr
    Wermacht
  • Hitler and the Nazis were anti-Semitic, what does that mean?
    Discriminating or being hostile toward Jews.
  • What was the holocaust and how many people did it affect?
    mass killing of 11-17 million people, mostly Jews