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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the German mark in October 1923?

2. Why did Hitler give regional powers to Strasser?

3. What was Germany like under Kaiser?

4. What happened when Hitler supported a no-confidence vote in the von Papen government?

5. What happened when Chancellor Bruning tried to ban the SA and SS?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the nation totally brought under the grip of the Nazis in 1933?

2. What kind of backing did Hitler get from powerful financial figures and how did it help his rise to power?

3. How did Hitler's carefulness about his radical program pay off in 1928?

4. What kind of sentence did Hitler serve after his trial in Munich and how did it meet his hopes?

5. When Adolf was little, what were his career aspirations?

6. Where does the name Hitler come from?

7. Why did Hitler feel Goebbels needed to be brought under control in the late 1920s?

8. In the beginning of Hitler's rise to leadership, how did members get along together at Nazi party meetings?

9. How did the new stable currency in Germany affect Hitler's popularity?

10. What kind of reaction did Hitler get from the judge at his trial in Munich?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Hitler's strengths as a leader compared to the current leader of Germany at that time.

Essay Topic 2

Hitler took advantage of the problems in Germany to blame the Jews and help his rise to power. Explore why you think people were so desperate for a new leader. What kinds of government problems had filtered down to the average citizen?

Essay Topic 3

In the end, why were Hitler's and Eva Braun's body's burned after they died? Was it out of hate for what Hitler had done for the country or another reason?

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