Practise MYP History questions on 13.1 Political Inaction and Governance Failures and review the explanations to check your understanding.
Use these questions for topic practice and to find ideas you want to revisit in your notes or lessons.
What is the ultimate lesson the textbook provides regarding the growth of injustice in society?
In the case study of Kristallnacht, which high-ranking Nazi official is identified alongside Hitler as having approved the attacks?
Which factor allowed the Nazi government to convert discrimination into a systematic genocide that reached across the entire continent?
Which event in November 1938 marked the critical transition from legal discrimination to open, state-led violence against Jewish people?
How did ordinary 'workers' facilitate the 'Final Solution' according to the textbook's description of widespread cooperation?
Injustice decreases as extremist groups gain power
Injustice only occurs if a single leader decides it should
Injustice is an unavoidable part of any economic cycle
Injustice grows when those with power choose not to act
Hermann Göring
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Goebbels
Reinhard Heydrich
The complete absence of the SS and Gestapo
The democratic strength of the Weimar Republic
The refusal of the state to use propaganda
Coordinated deportations and mass murder across Europe
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
The passage of the Nuremberg Laws
The invasion of Poland
The Wannsee Conference
By providing secret aid to vulnerable groups
By actively protesting the Nuremberg Laws
By refusing to follow government orders
By running the trains, factories, and offices
