Quiz Submissions – Test 2uestion 1(2 points)
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In Germany, a theory
of human heredity had merged with the racist doctrine of volkisch nationalists,
to form a political ideology of a nation based on ______.
Question 1 options:

race

religion

eugenics

a and b

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Question 2(2 points)
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At the center of the
Holocaust Era, is the _______(originally a Biblical term meaning widespread
disaster), a specific event in the 20th century history: the systematic,
deliberate, state-sponsored, bureaucratic destruction of nearly 6 million Jews,
a third of the world’s Jewish population, killed for no other reason than that
they were Jews, by the Nazi regime & its collaborators, between the years
1933-1945. The destructive will (Vernichtungswill) of the Nazis was aimed at
the totality of the Jews.
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*a) Sho’ah

lebensraum

Hassid

Olah

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Question 3(2 points)
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The picture of the
Jews encountered in Nazi propaganda was drawn, in part, from a long tradition
of antisemitism;’Crucifixion,’
Modern Germany crucified by the Jew,in Julius Streichter’svirulent antisemitic German newspaper. But the Nazis were not
interested in converting Jews to Christianity, because they viewed them in
purely racial terms.
Question 3 options:

Der Stuermer, 1939, no.4

Lebensraum, 1945, no. 4

Der Spiegel,1939, no. 4

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Question 4(2 points)
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____________ : The
Nazi political movement and regime in Germany, led by Adolf Hitler. It ruled
Germany from 1933-1945 and dominated Europe for most of World War II; based on
extreme nationalism, territorial expansion and racism; it promoted
antisemitism.
Question 4 options:

National Socialism

Liberalism

Socialist Workers

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Question 5(2 points)
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Nazi Germany from the
end of the Weimar Republic to the end of WW II; term refers to Hitler’s name
for his German Empire as a successor to the Empire of the Roman Emperors and
the Empire of Bismarck in 19th century Germany.
Question 5 options:

the Third Reich

the Second Reich

the Great Reich

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Question 6(2 points)
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The German internal
Secret State Police, the _____________, was organized in 1933 by the Commissar
of Prussian Police __________________________; it was a division of SS spies,
aimed at any so-called enemies of the regime and could seize and arrest anyone
at will without regard for court or law.
Question 6 options:

Whermacht; Joseph Goebbels

Gestapo; Hermann Goering

Gestapo; Joseph Goebbels

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Question 7(2 points)
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________ was the chief
of the _____, an ‘Elite Guard’ black-shirted members, who were disciplined,
dedicated, and utterly ruthless men indoctrinated in racial ideology, and who
were an important tool of Nazi terror.
Question 7 options:

Joseph Goebbels; S.A.

Heinrich Himmler; S.S.

Joseph Goebbels; S.S.

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Question 8(2 points)
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On March 23rd, 1933,
the Nazi-controlled Reichstag passed a new law’to fight the crisis of the
people & the state’ – Law for Removing the Distress of the People &
Reich, giving Hitler sole power to make laws, without consent of Parliament =
dictatorial power.
Question 8 options:

the Enabling Act

the Dictatorial Act

the Distress Act

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Question 9(2 points)
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The 1st German
concentration camp for political opponents, Jews & homosexuals, was set up
on March 20, 1933, at
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Treblinka

Dachau

Auschwitz

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Question 10(2 points)
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Symbolic of the Nazi
regime were the monster rallies staged at _____, held every September, combined
the symbolism of a religious service with the merriment of a popular amusement.
They had great appeal & evoked mass enthusiasm & excitement. 1000s
roared, marched, & worshiped at their leader’s feet
Question 10 options:

Berlin

Nuremberg

Munich

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Question 11(2 points)
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On July 14, 1933,
after all opposition political parties were outlawed. destroyed, Hitler
proclaimed the ________the only legal political party in Germany. By the end of
summer 1933, within 7 months of being appointed chancellor, Hitler & the
Nazis had established the foundations for a totalitarian state.
Question 11 options:

Social Democratic Party

Nazi Party

Social Party

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Question 12(2 points)
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Several weeks after
Hitler was named Chancellor, ________________ was appointed the Minister of
People’s Enlightenment & Propaganda; this minister launched a program of subtle
conditioning and indoctrination of the German people.
Question 12 options:

Joseph Goebbels

Adolf Eichmann

Henrich Himmler

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Question 13(2 points)
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On the night of May
10, 1933, under orders from Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda and Popular
Enlightenment, Nazis across Germany threw __________ into huge bonfires.
Question 13 options:

books

flags

a and b

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Question 14(2 points)
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After 1933, Germany
created the political framework that made it possible to translate an ideology
of inequality into a policy of ____________.
Question 14 options:

exclusion

inclusion

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Question 15(2 points)
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The Nazis denigrated
much of the Western cultural heritage of Europe and liberal, humanistic values.
Nazi teachers in school classrooms began to apply the ‘principles’ of
___________ -a new course. They measured skull size and nose length, and
recorded the color of their pupils’ hair and eyes to determine whether students
belonged to the true “Aryan race.”
Question 15 options:

racial science

German science`

hereditary science

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Question 16(2 points)
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Antisemitic book for
children compares the ‘German’ & the ‘Jew,’ to demonstrate the biological
inferiority of Jews, racial superiority of Germans, and that Aryan racial
theories are scientific; stories called the Jews ‘devils,’ scum, and
_____________.
Question 16 options:

poison mushroom

venomous rats

poison snake

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Question 17(2 points)
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Intense ideological
indoctrination took place within this compulsory Nazi youth group for German
boys aged 6 to 18. A dagger engraved with ‘Blood & Honor,’ was the
graduation diploma for ____________________.
Question 17 options:

Hitler Youth

Nazi group

Hitler’s Boys

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Question 18(2 points)
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On June 6, 1934,
Hitler, following a bargain with the army high command, ordered the massacre of
the Stormtroopers, street fighters Brown-shirts (SA), the Rohm Blood purge or
_______________, when Roehm and several hundred men in the S.A. and a number of
marked men, branded as traitors, were murdered; the Nazi regime became a
criminal one.
Question 18 options:

the Night of the Long Knives

the Great Purge

the Night of the SA

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Question 19(2 points)
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In the economic
sphere, the regime pursued the use of public works projects to foster
employment and end the depression; ___________dropped to 2.6 million in 1934,
from 6 million in 1932.
Question 19 options:

unemployment

inflation

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Question 20(2 points)
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On Aug. 2, 1934, with
the death of President Hindenburg, Hitler proclaimed himself_______________ ;
he combined the offices of Chancellor and President – Hitler sole ruler to whom
army members pledged a new oath of obedience.
Question 20 options:

Fuhrer und Reichskanzler

Kaiser und Emperor

Kaiser und Fuhrer

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Question 21(2 points)
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In August 19, 1936,
during the XI Olympic Games held in Berlin, Hitler made a hasty departure from
the stadium to avoid offering congratulations to ________, the African-American
track star, Ohio State University athlete, who was the undisputed hero of the
games with four gold medals.
Question 21 options:

Jesse Owens

Jesse Smith

Jesse Johnson

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Question 22(2 points)
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Hitler’s obsessive
preoccupation with the ‘Jewish question’ was, & remained right up to the
last moments of his life, absolutely central to his view of the world. The ‘War
against the Jews,’ was a multi-dimension process; it involved their gradual
exclusion from economic life & from German (and, later on, from occupied
European) society by______, social pressure and intimidation
Question 22 options:

legislation

referendum

a and b

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Question 23(2 points)
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Flags, uniforms,___________ (heil to victory), fanfares,
marching columns, banners, & searchlights, were used to mold the Nazi
party, and later all of Germany into total compliance with Nazi policy.
Question 23 options:

Sieg Heils

Heil Lebensraum

Seig Lebensraum

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Question 24(2 points)
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From 1933 to1939,
legal onslaught against the Jews, to eliminate them from all areas of public
life, strip them of their citizenship, & restrict their religious freedom.
On April 7th 1933, the Nazis introduced their 1st anti-Jewish law, theRestoration of the Professional Civil Service
Act(Law for the
Reestablishment of the professional Civil service), firing all
‘_________________’ civil service workers. Thousands of Jews were fired or
forcibly ‘retired’ from their jobs as a result
Question 24 options:

non-Aryans

Gypsies

Roma

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Toward the end of
1934, a so-calledNazi”expert” on the Jews,
__________________,was hired by the S.D.
to work in its department for Jewish affairs.
Question 25 options:

Hermann Goering

Adolf Eichmann

Joseph Goebbels

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Two laws enacted on
September 15, 1935, defined the Jews in purely racial terms (according to the
number of Jewish grandparents they had), & stripped them of their
citizenship.
Question 26 options:

Berlin Laws

Nuremberg Laws

Munich Laws

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Question 27(2 points)
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1938 – a turning
point; Jewish communities under the jurisdiction of the SS and direct authority
of the Gestapo; anti-Jewish policy more oppressive. The compulsory
expropriation of Jewish industries, businesses and shops, under the Nazi regime,
after 1938: ________ – the ownership of most Jewish businesses was taken over
by non-Jewish Germans
Question 27 options:

Aryanization

Nazification

Germanization

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Question 28(2 points)
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By 1938, Nazi policy
of Judenrei had systematically removed Jews from the political and cultural
life of Germany. The overall goal of this phase of Nazi antisemitic policy –
forced __________- seemed to be working.
Question 28 options:

emigration

imprisonment

disemancipation

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About 40% of those
Jews who emigrated chose British-controlled ___ as their destination.
Question 29 options:

France

Palestine

Madagascar

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Question 30(2 points)
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______________ stated
that, the countries of the world were divided into 2 camps: those that wanted
to get rid of the Jews, and those that refused to take them in
Question 30 options:

Theodor Herzl

Chaim Weizmann

Alfred Dreyfus

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Question 31(2 points)
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Congress had set up
immigration_____ – limited number
– in 1924 that limited the number of immigrants & discriminated against
groups considered racially & ethnically undesirable
Question 31 options:

numerus clausus

quota

exclusion

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Question 32(2 points)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt,
responding to mounting political pressure, called for an international
conference to address the refugee problem. The ___________, an international
conference of 32 governments, was held in July, 6 & 15, 1938, to discuss
the plight of refugees, many of whom were Jews escaping Nazi Germany.
Question 32 options:

Paris Conference

Evian Conference

Washington Conference

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Question 33(2 points)
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________ : Pogrom of
November 9, 1938, the “Night of Broken Glass,” coordinated with
Heindrich and Goebbels: Antisemitic riots in Germany and Austria during which
synagogues were set afire by the Nazis, almost 100 Jews were murdered or seriously
injured, and as many as 30,000 Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration
camps
Question 33 options:

Judenrei

Kristallnacht

Night and Fog

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Question 34(2 points)
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The
________________________ : an effort to admit 20,000 endangered Jewish refugee
children; it was not supported by the Senate in 1939 and 1940.
Question 34 options:

Wagner-Rogers bill

Truman bill

Roosevelt bill

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Question 35(2 points)
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On May 13, 1939, a
cruise ship, _______, carrying 937 passengers, most Jewish refugees, left
Hamburg, Germany, seeking freedom from Nazi terror; it was turned away from
Cuba & the US
Question 35 options:

the St Louis

the Cuban

the Exodus

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Question 36(2 points)
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May 17, 1939: British
government published its ____________ on Palestine barring Jews from Palestine
– 75,000 immigrants to be permitted to enter; more by Arab consent.
Question 36 options:

White Paper

Black Paper

Red Paper

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Question 37(2 points)
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Germany under Nazi
rule emphasized the primacy of _______ ideology, which stressed the descent of
the German people from the superior Aryan race, and the superiority of the
‘Germanic race,’ -the “master race.” Hitler’s close confidant Rudolf
Hess made this clear when he defined National Socialism as applied biology.
Question 37 options:

racial

democratic

eugenics

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Question 38(2 points)
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The advancement of
German culture, in Nazi doctrine, required to limit those who were not
“productive” in work or who would otherwise not advance the goals and
objectives of the State. Nazis believed that the “useless mouths”
(the chronically ill and the physically and mentally defective/challenged) had
no right to live.’ The Nazi phrase, “_____________” was used to
describe such people, as well as criminals, the insane, and the physically
challenged/handicapped. This characterization was soon extended to include
Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, and homosexuals.
Question 38 options:

*a) Life unworthy of life

Life without useless people

Useless Life

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Question 39(2 points)
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The application of
genocidal policies did not start with the Jews; from the moment the Nazis took
power in 1933, they introduced the racial hygiene programs to __________ those
deemed ‘_________’ for German society – to assure that the blood of the German
“master race” remained “pure” of any contamination by
people with undesirable features. German scientists & physicians were in
the forefront of the _______ movement (selective breeding), which was popular
on both sides of the Atlantic.
Question 39 options:

weed out, unfit; eugenics

include, fit; antisemitism

weed out, impure; Darwinist

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Question 40(2 points)
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In 1933, the Nazis
began to put into practice their racial ideology. German physicians who
believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of
people considered ‘inferior,’ ‘undesirables,’ ‘mentally deficient’, were
allowed to perform forced _________ for personsjudged too defective to have
children,with certain
hereditary diseases; 200,000 victims.
Question 40 options:

sterilizations

abortions

a and b

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The Nazis went one
step further in approving a program of ‘mercy killing;’ mentally and physically
handicapped persons were rounded up and sent to special facilities for
“treatment,” a euphemism for the murder of ‘defective’ persons;.
judges approved the _____________ of Germans deemed unfit to live in the world
of Aryan excellence. ”
Question 41 options:

euthanasia program

forced starvation program

lebensraum program

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Homosexuals blamed for
undermining racial community by failure to produce children, were sometimes
sent to regular concentration camps; they wore ___ triangle.
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pink

black

red

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______ : Members of a
Christian group also called Bible Students, who opposed Nazism from the
beginning, & were the 1st religious association to be banned; they rejected
racism, ultra-nationalism, and the deification of state and Fuhrer; they
refused to make the Hitler salute – heil Hitler, display the swastika flag,
join the Nazi party, & perform military service; for their refusal to
conform to Nazi ideals, thousands of them were sent to prisons &
concentration camps, where they were designated by a _______.
Question 43 options:

Jehovah’s Witnesses; purple
triangle

German Gypsies; red triangle

Jehovah’s Witnesses; pink triangle

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They were arrested,
tortured & persecuted by the Nazis because ofWHAT they did
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Jehovah’s Witnesses, the
homosexuals, members of the clergy, political opponents

the mentally ill, handicapped,
Jews, Black, Gypsies, Slavs

Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, Slavs

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Hitler violated the
1933 concordat with the Pope; he dismissed Catholic teachers from schools;
opposition clergy were arrested. 1000s of priests & nuns arrested &
deported to concentration camps. In 1937 the Pope issued an encyclical called
‘With Burning Concern.’ It criticized Hitler for breaking their agreement;
there was __________ to Nazi antisemitic policy.
Question 45 options:

opposition

no opposition

outcry

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______ : Pastor of the
church at Dahlem, near Berlin; he refused to recognize control of secular
authorities, & in 1937 was arrested; was famous for a specific quotation.
Question 46 options:

Martin Niemoller

Martin Pascal

Martin Spiegel

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With few exceptions,
most Germans ____________with the boycott of all Jewish businesses, on April 1,
1933.
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complied

did not comply

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Question 48(2 points)
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The Nazi Party’s rise
to power was built upon two dominant ideologies: __________ & _______.
Hitler called his future plans for a Nazi-controlled Europe & introduction
there of Nazi racial ideology, the _____
Question 48 options:

racial purity & lebensraum.New
Order

communism & appeasement. New
Deal

racial purity & lebensraum.New
Deal

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Question 49(2 points)
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1938: March 12/13,
without war, Germany proceed with the annexation of Austria or the _______.
Sept. 29/30/1938: Following a policy of appeasement, Britain & France
agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland; British Prime Minister
_____________appeases Hitler, and claimed ‘Peace in our times.’
Question 49 options:

Anschluss. Neville Chamberlain

Lebensraum. Neville Chamberlain

Anschluss. Winston Churchill

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Question 50(1 point)
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In the 1939 Nazi-Soviet
Pact,
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Stalin agreed to allow Hitler to
invade Poland

Hitler and Stalin agreed to divide
Czechoslovakia

Hitler and Lenin agreed to divide
Czechoslovakia

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Question 51(1 point)
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Hitler consolidated
his power, created the Third Reich from the Weimar Republic, and transformed
Germany into a ruthless dictatorship using the following THREE important and
effective means:
Question 51 options:

Legislation, terror, propaganda

Legislation, terror, relocation

a. Reorganization, Re-education,
Relocation