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8. Whom did Hitler give the responsibility to recover the economy?
Ans. Hajalmar Schacht

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9. What slogan did Hitler give to integrate Austria and Germany?
Ans. One people one empire and one leader.

10. Where did the US drop atom bombs?
Ans. Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

11. What was Synagogue?
Ans. Place of worship for the people of Jewish faith.

12. What was Jungvolk?
Ans. Nazi youth group for children below 14 years.

13. Who were called the allies during the first world war?
Ans. The allied powers were initially led by the UK and France. In 1941 they were joined by
the USSR and USA. They fought against the axis powers namely Germany Italy and Japan

14. How did the people of Germany established a democratic constitution in Weimar?
Ans. The defeat of imperial Germany and the application of the emperor gave an opportunity
to parliamentary parties to recast German polity. A national assembly met at Weimar and
established a democratic constitution with a federal structure.

15. How the deputies were elected in the new Federal structure?
Ans. Deputies were now elected to the German Parliament on the basis of equal and universal
votes cast by all the adults including women

16. How did the people receive the Weimar republic?
Ans. The republic was not received well by its own people largely because of the terms it was
forced to accept after Germany’s defeat at the end of the first world war.

17. What was the condition of the soldiers after the first world war?
Ans. The German soldiers lived miserable lives in the trenches, trapped with rats feeding on
corpses, poisonous gas and enemy shelling, and witnessed their rank reduced rapidly.

18. Why did French occupy the Ruhr area in 1923?
Ans. In 1923 Germany refused to pay and the French occupied its leading industrial area to claim
their coal.

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