•Hitler’s Rise•National Socialism (Nazism) 1933-1939•The Early War•The Holocaust•Canada’s Military Role/1941-45•The Home Font

This short quiz is only meant to be an overview of the unit and cannot serve as a substitute for note review and real study.

1.Hitler was a veteran of ________________________.a) World War I

2. Hitler’s official membership number was 555. The actual number was _______________, because the Nazi Party wanted to seem larger than it was.

a) 553) Hitler attempted a putsch (revolution) in Munich in 1923 (often

called the “Beer Hall Putsch”). It failed. Hitler received a light sentence because...

a) the judge had been lenient at Hitler's previous trial for inciting violence

4. The German government felt threatened with political violence after WW I. It hired right-wing mercenaries (called __________________ in German) to defeat communist revolutionaries.

a) friekorps4) In 1928, the Nazis had only won about 2% of the vote. What

economic reasons help explain their growing popularity over the next 3 years?

1- German unemployment 2- The failure of major German banks

3- fear of inflation (like the early 1920’s) 4- fear of communism

5) The leadership of the _____________________ was eliminated in the “Night of the Long Knives” in 1934. Afterwards, the _______ became the most powerful group in the Nazi Party, having control over all police forces and administering the concentration/ extermination camp system

a) Brownshirtsb) The SS

6. After the 1933 election, no political party won a majority of votes. President _____________ appointed Hitler as chancellor after being convinced to do so by an important group of German ________________________.

a) Hindenburgb) business leaders

7. In 1933, right after the election, the __________________________ was set ablaze. Hitler used this “crisis” to invoke the “__________________ Act” which gave him dictatorial powers.

a) Reichstagb) Enabling

7. In 1935, the Nazi government introduced the __________________ _______ which defined who would be considered Jewish; this document also eliminated basic rights for German Jews.

a) Nuremberg Laws8. In 1938 there was a government-organized pogrom against Germany's

Jewish population. It became known as “_____________________”a) kristallnacht

10. The ______________________ was the secret police force responsible for identifying Jews and opponents of Hitler. They relied on information volunteered by citizens in order to carry out their work.

a) Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei)11. National Socialism affected all aspects of German life, Including _________________, ______________________, _____________________ and _____________________________; for this reason it is called a “________________” political system .

a) Many possible, including religion, the home, education, employment, leisure, marriage, childrearing

b) totalitarian

9. The people who were the first to be imprisoned in _________________ (the first concentration camp ) were not “racial” enemies; they were the _____________ enemies of the Nazis.

a) Dachaub) political

1. ____________________________ is the term used to describe the strategy used by other European powers to avoid war with Germany.

a) appeasement2. Hitler had no idea what the response would be when he occupied the

______________________ on his border with France. He was encouraged to be even more confrontational when absolutely nothing happened.

a) Rhineland3. Hitler justified occupying the _________________________ and

_______________________ by saying that he wished to unite all German speaking people. In the case of the former, what he really wanted was the industry located in this area.

a) Sudetenland (borderlands of Czechoslovakia)

a) Austria4. The _______________________________ with the Soviet Union enabled

both countries to invade ______________________ without worry. The result was the beginning of the Second World War.

a) Non-Aggression Pacta) Poland

5. List the countries that Hitler occupied between September 1939 and June 1941:

a) Poland (1/2); Czechoslovakia; the Netherlands (Holland); Belgium; France (1/2—the other half was Vichy administered); Norway; Luxemburg; Denmark 6. List the countries that the Soviet Union occupied as a result of its pact with Germany:

a) Poland (1/2) ; Latvia; Lithuania; Estonia7. Germany’s success in battle was largely due to the ________________ strategy which was first developed during WW I.

a) blitzkrieg8. The Battle of _____________ was crucial to continuing the war against Germany; this represented Hitler’s first defeat.

a) Britain9. Germany attempted to bomb Great Britain into submission. This was termed the “__________” by the British. Hermann Goering, commander of the ________________________ promised Hitler that air power alone could defeat the British.

a) Blitza) Luftwaffe (German Air Force)

10. Canadian and Polish pilots accounted for _________% of the strength of the RAF during the fighting in 1940

a) 3011. ______________, protected by British and Canadian naval vessels, were necessary for the survival of Great Britain during the Battle of the Atlantic.

a) convoys

12. U-boats were often organized into groups, called “__________________”, in order to inflict the greatest damage possible on Allied shipping.

a) wolfpacks

13. The ___________________, established early in the war, was designed to train Commonwealth air crews in Canada. The most obvious reason for choosing Canada was _____________________________________________________.

a) BCATP

b) safety---Canada was for from the fighting and had lots of open space

14. __________________ was the most important Canadian port during the war.

a) Halifax

1. The Holocaust can be understood as an evolution of Nazi racial policy that culminated in mass murder on an industrial scale. List three or four basic steps in this evolution:

1-Anti-Semitic legislation 2- Establishment of ghettos/

slave labour 3- Einsatzgruppen 4- Extermination camps

2. __________________ had a much larger Jewish population than Germany. When Germany invaded in 1939, it suddenly had apply its racial policy to a population that numbered in the millions.

a) Poland

3. Conditions in the ghettos were terrible. _______________________ and _______________ were constant problems for the residents, along with violence from their oppressors

a) disease

b) malnutrition

4. Identify the following men:

a) Josef Goebbels

a) Heinrich Himmler

a) Reinhard Heydrich

a) Adolf Eichmann

5. The ____________________ Conference in January,1942, formalized Nazi plans for the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. The plan was to use 6 ________________________ camps, all located in _________________________, to wipe out Europe’s Jews.

a) Wannsee

b) extermination

6. In addition to around 6 million Jewish victims, the Nazis also killed millions of ____________ and ____________________ prisoners of war, both groups that the Nazis considered inferior “untermenschen”

a) Gypsies (Roma)

b) Russian

1. As a result of the threat from Japan, Canada’s army fought its first action of WW II in ____________________.

a) Hong Kong

2. In 1942, many Canadians were lost in the raid on __________________. The attack was a complete failure.

a) Dieppe

3. Canada’s navy was mostly composed of destroyers and _________________, small ships that were manoeuvrable and easily built.

a) corvettes

4. The Canadian Army landed in _______________ in 1943, then fought its way up the east coast of Italy with the British Army. Canadians distinguished themselves in The Battle of _________________ at the end of ’43.

a) Sicily

a) Ortona

6. List some of the problems faces by the Allied forces during the D-day invasion:

a) inaccurate parachute drops

a) amphibious landing

a) fierce German defence

a) maintaining secrecy

Among others

5. In “Operation ______________” (the invasion of France, also called D-day), Canadian forces landed at a beach, codenamed _________________. They made some of the most significant progress of any Allied force in the following days and weeks.

a) Overlord

b) Juno

1. The leader of the Soviet Union, ________________________, did not believe his own intelligence services when they told him Hitler was about to invade.

a) Josef Stalin2. The Japanese attacked _____________________ on December 7, 1941.

Although the attack achieved complete surprise, the ______________________ and ______________________________ were missed.

a) Pearl Harborb) aircraft carriersc) oil supply

3. The German invasion of the USSR was eventually slowed down by __________________________.

a) poor weather/early winter4. In 1943, the German Army was defeated at _______________________.

a) Stalingrad5. The Russians were able to recover by moving ________________________ far

from the front lines.a) industry

6. An American B-29 dropped the first atomic bomb on __________________ in August, 1945. The next target was ___________________ three days later.

a) Hiroshimab) Nagasaki

The Soviet Union and Japan

Canada’s Home Front

1. Although rationing was not as severe in Canada as it was in Britain, key resources necessary for war, such as ________________ , were always limited. Other things, such as _________________ were rationed because they came from overseas in high risk convoys.

a) oil/meat/rubber and othersb) sugar/silk

2. Some residents who were identified as a threat to national security were German Canadians and ________________ Canadians. Those residents of the latter group who lived on the west coast were placed in __________________ camps.a) Japaneseb) internment

3. Women took industrial jobs in substantial numbers. Two ways in which the federal government assisted working women was the provide ____________________ and _______________________.a) daycareb) dormitories

4. As in WW I, the government raised large sums of money through the sale of __________________________. These paid interest after a certain amount of time.

a) Victory Bonds

5. Young women were encouraged to join the ____________________________ at a rate of $5 a say. These young women were expected to work 10 hour days.

a) Ontario Farm Service Force

6. A government program that survived the war was ________________, which was designed to assist all families with childrearing expenses.

a) Family Allowance

7. As in WW I, propaganda became familiar to Canadians during WW II. The key goals of propaganda were the same, and included:

a) create support for government and the militaryb) encourage behaviours such as conserving resources,

buying Victory Bonds, watchfulnessc) demonize the enemyd) recruitment