Nazism and the Rise of Hitler Class 9 Extra Questions Short Answer Type

I. Very Short Answer Type Questions (1 Mark)

1. What was the slogan coined by Hitler when he followed his aggressive foreign policy?
2. Which incident led to the start of the Second World War?
3. What was the German Parliament called?
4. The Nazi Party was renamed after which organisation?
5. What was the significance of the Enabling Act?
6. Which event brought the end of World War II?
7. Why is Hitler’s attack on Soviet Union in 1941 regarded as ‘a historic blunder’?
8. What was the immediate cause for American entry in the Second World War?

Answers

1. One people, one empire, and one leader.
2. German invasion of Poland.
3. The German Parliament was called Reichstag.
4. The Nazi Party was renamed after the National Socialist German Workers Party.
5. The Enabling Act enabled Hitler to sideline the Parliament and rule by decree.
6. Hitler’s defeat and the US bombing of Hiroshima in Japan brought the end of World War
   II in 1945.
7. Hitler’s attack on Soviet Union in 1941 is regarded as a historic blunder because henceforth
   German armies had to simultaneously fight on two fronts. While Germans were fighting
   the aerial bombings of the British on the western front, the eastern front remained exposed
   to the powerful Soviet armies.
8. Both the US and Japan were competing for domination in the Pacific. The immediate
   cause for American entry in the Second World War was the sudden bombing by Japan
   on the American naval base at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, destroying American ships and
   aircrafts.