History quiz

Exercises on Adolf Hitler

question 1

(Mackenzie) “[...] every crossing of two beings of unequal value produces a middle ground between the values ​​of the parents [...] Such a gathering is in contradiction with the will of nature, which tends to raise the level of beings. This objective cannot be achieved by uniting individuals of different values, but only by the complete and definitive victory of those who represent the highest value. The role of the strongest is to dominate and not to merge with the weakest, thus sacrificing their own greatness.” (Adolf Hitler).

In the book "Mein Kampf", Hitler expressed that:

a) the need to preserve the pure race justified the domination and elimination of other races and the expansion of Germany.

b) racism and authoritarianism would serve to defend the elevation of the pure Slavic race and the extermination of the Jews.

c) the National Socialist movement disapproved of anti-Semitism and genetic improvement through eugenics.

d) the Germans were superior and the Aryan race inferior, thus justifying the living space.

e) the myth of the superiority of the Aryan race was used by the Nazis to stimulate internationalism and liberalism.

question 2

After the death of his country, Hitler, who had been born and raised in the vicinity of the Austrian city of Linz, went to the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Vienna, with the aim of:

a) join the Vienna School of Music.

b) be part of the imperial guard.

c) join the Vienna Academy of Arts.

d) study economics and sociology.

e) kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

question 3

(FUVEST) Hitler's rise to power in the early thirties took place:

a) by the hands of the German army that wanted to get even for the humiliations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.

b) through a coup action whose spearhead were the paramilitary forces of the Nazi party. c) as a result of an alliance between the Nazis and the Communists.

d) from his call by President Hindenburg to head a coalition government.

e) through a mobilization similar to that which took place in Italy, with Mussolini's march on Rome.

question 4

The Nazi project of global domination headed by the construction of the German Third Reich, idealized by Hitler, had the most nefarious outcome:

a) the production of the atomic bombs, “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”.

b) the holocaust.

c) the implementation of Sharia in Germany.

d) the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

e) the construction of the Berlin Wall.

answers Question 1

Letter A

In “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle), Hitler developed the ideas that formed the basis of support for the Nazi regime in Germany. Among these ideas, eugenics, that is, the conception of a race superior and better than the others, had a central role, given that the "white, Aryan race", according to Hitler's thought, should triumph over the other races considered “degenerate”.

Question 2

Letter C

Hitler went to Vienna, in the beginning of the 20th century, with the aim of joining the Vienna Academy of Arts, since he was a watercolor painter and imagined getting that ticket. However, his attempt to enter failed and he had to survive in Vienna working as a postcard painter.

question 3

Letter D

Hindenburg, then President of Germany, found himself in the contingency of appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Republic in 1933. With the death of Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler concentrated all the executive powers of the German Republic in his hands, becoming the ultimate leader of the German state.

Question 4

Letter B

The term holocaust, or shoa , is used in reference to the massacre of some six million individuals – mostly Jews – by Nazism during World War II. These deaths were carried out in death camps, such as Auschwitz, Poland.