2020 TEST Interbellum

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

To do for this lesson

- Check all exercises of chapter 1 & 2 in your workbook

- Practise Test on LessonUp

- Study the terms

- Extra instruction from the teacher

- Watch the EDPuzzle videos

TEST HISTORY

1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.2, 2.3

The Interbellum 1919 - 1939

Characteristic Aspects Age 1 - 4

Drag the hotspots to the correct Age.

time of Cities and States

500 - 1000 AD

rise of first urban communities

prehistory

centralisation and the forming of states

3000 BC - 500 AD

Early Middle Ages

rise and spread of Islam

rise and spread of Christianity

Time of Cities and States

agricultural revolution

Antiquity

This test covers the period we call the "interbellum".
What does that mean?

It is the period:

1. from the start of WW1 till the end of WW2
2. From the end of WW1 till the end of WW2
3. from the end of WW1 till the beginning of WW2
4. from the beginning of WW1 till the beginning of WW2

Which statement is true?
Statement I: After World War I, Italy added large parts of Austria-Hungary to their territory.
Statement II: After World War I, Italy was faced with a huge debt, unemployment and social unrest.

1. Both statements are true.
2. Both statements are false.
3. Statement I is false and statement II is true.
4. Statement I is true and statement II is false.

Mussolini was the leader of a nationalist and authoritarian political movement called:

1. National Socialism
2. socialism
3. communism
4. fascism

The German soldier Johann Herbert fights in the First World War. His son writes:
He had lost a leg and he refused to use a wooden leg. Instead he moved through the house in a wheelchair and scolded the "bureaucrats and leeches" that had betrayed Germany.

He described the leaders of the government as traitors. When I brought home the new black-red-gold flag of the Republic (the old flag was black-white-red), he tore

it in pieces, spat on it, hit me in the face with it and forbade me to bring that rag ever back in the house.

Read and use the text from the previous slide.
From this text you can gather a cause that led to the downfall of the
Weimar Republic.
Name this cause and explain why this contributed to the demise of the Weimar Republic.

Why did the 1929 depression spread from the US to Europe?

1. Because the Americans bought stocks in Europe
2. Because the Americans sold their European stocks
3. Because there was a complicated set of loans and payments between US, France, UK and Germany and this fell apart because of the Wall Street Crash
4. Because of a complicated plan to repay the UK and France for the war effort, this included German minister Jakob Dawes selling US stocks at the Weimar stock exchange

Which statement is true?
Statement I: The Weimar Republic was a democratic state with a parliament and a president.
Statement II: The government of the Weimar Republic could not end the political unrest in Germany.

1. Both statements are true.
2. Both statements are false.
3. Statement I is false and statement II is true.
4. Statement I is true and statement II is false.

Which statement is true?
Statement I: National Socialism has many aspects in common with Fascism.
Statement II: The racial aspect is bigger in National Socialism than in Fascism.

1. Both statements are true.
2. Both statements are false.
3. Statement I is false and statement II is true.
4. Statement I is true and statement II is false.

In his book ‘Mein Kampf’, Hitler claimed that Germany needed:

1. more democracy
2. a strong leader
3. more political parties
4. new elections

What was the stab-in-the-back myth about?

1. Germany could have won the war if the government had not been betrayed by military commanders
2. The kaiser betrayed the Germans by fleeing to the Netherlands. That is why Germany lost the war, not because the army was weak.
3. German politicians did not lose the war, but the army that had weak leadership
4. German army did not lose the war, it was betrayed by (communist and Jewish) politicians who signed the armistice.

Hitler’s claim for Lebensraum was focused on:

1. Western Europe
2. Eastern Europe
3. All of Europe
4. Southern Europe

The Great Depression is called so because:

1. millions of people were depressed when they lost their jobs
2. it was a long and deep crisis that affected all Western industrialised countries
3. millions of people were disappointed that the Roaring Twenties were over
4. the United States had never faced an economic crisis of this size before

Which statement is true?

Statement I: Democrat President Hoover believed the economy would recover without any intervention of the government.
Statement II: Republican President Roosevelt involved the government in stopping the crisis.

1. Both statements are true.
2. Both statements are false.
3. Statement I is false and statement II is true.
4. Statement I is true and statement II is false.

Why did so many Americans borrow money to buy stocks during the Roaring Twenties?

people can not buy things

stores do not order from factories

factories do not get orders

people lose their jobs

stores go out of business

Explain Roosevelt's New Deal.

Explain why some people called Roosevelt's New Deal a step towards socialism / communism

Look at the Depression Cycle again. How did Roosevelt hope to break and reverse this cycle with the New Deal?

The plan to solve the problem of Germany’s war reparations is known as:

1. the Treaty of Versailles
2. the Hoover Plan
3. the New Deal
4. the Dawes Plan

Explain how the Dawes plan from 1924 strengthened the economic crisis in Germany from 1929.

Which statement is false?

1. Thanks to the crisis, Hitler’s party grew immensely.
2. According to Hitler, poverty in Germany was caused by the Treaty of Versailles.
3. In 1928, the NSDAP was still a small political party.
4. In 1932, the NSDAP had an overall majority in the German parliament.

Why would Hitler benefit from an economic crisis?

1. during a crisis people lose faith in their government and are more willing to follow a strong leader who will solve the problems
2. during a crisis many people lose their jobs. Hitler knew that only communism could save them.
3. Hitler knew that Germany could no longer pay the Reparations, so he got his revenge for the Treaty of Versailles
4. Hitler knew that Germans would all blame the Jews for this crisis and thus vote for him.

Which statement is true?
Statement I: Hitler believed that violence was good, since it separated the strong from the weak.
Statement II: Hitler despised totalitarian states and wanted to shift the power from the Weimar Republic back to the people.

1. Both statements are true.
2. Both statements are false.
3. Statement I is false and statement II is true.
4. Statement I is true and statement II is false.

How did the burning of the Reichstag help Hitler?

1. It helped him to start an attack on Jewish shopkeepers
2. It helped him to get rid of the communists
3. It helped him to start the new curriculum in schools
4. It helped him to get out of prison quicker

What was the Enabling Act?

1. A set of laws that determined the rights of Jews in Germany
2. A set of laws that granted Hitler the title of Führer
3. A set of laws that allowed Hitler to rule without the Reichstag
4. A set of laws that granted Hindenburg the right to veto Hitler

What is an example of the Nazi totalitarianism?

1. Hitler designed the Nazi symbol himself
2. Hitler designed the new school uniforms for German schools himself
3. Teachers would be fired if they refused the new curriculum designed by the Nazi’s
4. The Nazi’s created huge campsites for public schools to use as training areas.

On the 30th of June 1934 Hitler initiated a purge which would later become known as the Night of the Long Knives. To who was this purge directed to?

1. To Jews
2. To Communists
3. To the former politicians who were part of the Weimar Republic
4. To disobedient members of the Nazi party

Though all SA members were Nazis, many of them were eliminated by the SS during the Night of the Long Knives. Explain why Hitler wanted the SS to do this.

Is this a useful source to explain
Hitler’s plan of indoctrination? Explain your answer.

Hitler visiting a Hitler Youth camp

Study source A. The title of this cartoon is:
Reunion in Vienna. This cartoon is about:

1. the Munich Conference
2. the Anschluss
3. Lebensraum
4. Appeasement

Britain and France focused on the policy of appeasement. This means that:

1. They were willing to give in to Hitler’s demands to maintain peace
2. they were not willing to give in to Hitler’s demands to maintain peace
3. they convinced Hitler to maintain peace
4. they forced Hitler to maintain peace

Study the source.
The shirt this man is wearing says ‘appeaser’.
Explain what is meant by the appeasement policy.

Hitler visiting a Hitler Youth camp

Was the creator of this cartoon in favour or
against the appeasement policy?
Use two elements from the cartoon to support
your answer.

Hitler visiting a Hitler Youth camp

Look at the source.
a) Who are the people sitting around the
globe (name + country) from left to right?

The text on the paper under the chair says: 4 Power Pact

b) Who is the man standing in the
doorway (name + country)?

The text on the paper under the chair says: 4 Power Pact

c) Which country is shown on the map in
the background?

1. Austria
2. Czechoslovakia
3. Sudetenland
4. Poland

d) Which event is the cartoon about?

1. Munich Conference
2. Anschluss with Austria
3. Munich Putsch
4. German occupation of the Sudetenland

e) Explain why the person in the doorway was
not invited

The text on the paper under the chair says: 4 Power Pact

f) What is the best description of the facial
expression of the two men in black?
They look:

1. amazed
2. relieved
3. embarrassed
4. angry

g) considering the answer to question f, what was
the artist's POV (point of view) about the policy of
appeasement? Explain your answer.

The text on the paper under the chair says: 4 Power Pact

a.
Compare how France and Britain felt about the start of the First World War to the start of the Second World War.

b.
Give three reasons why their attitude towards the start of World War II was so different.

Put the events in the correct chronological order

Enabling Act

Hyper Inflation

Hitler takes the Sudetenland

New Deal

Remilitarisation Rhineland