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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. When did Alois die?

2. Who created a new stable currency in Germany during a national crisis?

3. In 1923, who had problems curbing the Nazis that led to their rise in power?

4. How long did it take Russia to be defeated, as described in the beginning of the book?

5. Who investigated the Nazi party from the U.S.?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the infamous Mefo-bill scheme.

3. How did Hitler survive homelessness?

4. Describe the Nazi party's comeback after the election of February 1932.

5. How did Hitler try to emulate the dictator of Italy?

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

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

8. What was Hitler's relationship with Hanfstaengl?

9. What did the newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, become to the Nazi party?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Hitler become suicidal? Did he no longer want to live or would he rather have controlled his own fate than die at someone else's hand? Explain.

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

What kind of resistance formed against Hitler's Jewish concentration camps, and why wasn't it big enough to stop the mass killings that happened there?

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