HISTORY 262 UNC EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression pact) - Answers Who - the foreign policy
ministers for both Germany and the Soviet Union
What - It was a non-aggression pact which made Hitler feel safe in the east. It also had a secret
agenda in dividing Poland between the two countries
Where - Soviet Union
When - August 1939
Why - So Hitler could plan expansion into Poland as well as focusing on his western front
Significance - Allowed Hitler to invade Poland with little resistance and being his "race and space"
policies as well as allowed him to focus his attention in the beginning to the west.
General Government - Answers Who - Germans, Jews and Polish, Hans Frank was appointed governor
What - German division of Poland between areas accepted into the Greater Reich and a territory for
Jews
Where - Poland
When - 1939
Why - expansion due to Lebansraum ideals-more land for ethnic Germans and an area to organize
and keep the Jewish people
Significance - Area specifically designed for Jewish people, first
Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) - Answers Who - ethnic Germans not living in Germany
What -term applied to those not in the established Reich or realm of Hitler's power, people/folk.
Where - Austria, Sudetenland, Poland etc - areas later incorporated into the General gov't instead of
just territories
When - 1933
Why - folk and race adding to the sense of a superior civilization
Significance - further divided the Reich into racial groups, Hitler used it as a reason to attack the areas
(Poland) - speeches about how ethnic Germans were being abused, got Germans on board with war
against Poland
RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) - Answers Who - Hitler and Heydrich
What - SD (surveillance/intelligence), Gestapo, and Criminal Police
Where - Greater Reich and occupied areas
When - September 27, 1939
Why - umbrella authority over different Nazi organizations,
Significance - Einsatzgruppen - mobile killing units - killed tens of thousands of Jews and Poles, Adolf
Eichmann and Final Solution
Lodz - Answers who - 80% ethnic Poles
what - An incorporated territory into the Third reich, home to one of the largest ghettos,
overcrowded and isolated
where - Poland
when - 1939
why - A place designated for the removal of undesired peoples from within the Third Reich
significance - Much of the mass killing of Jews after 1941 would be done there; also plans to reduce
Poles to slaves of Germany had early implementation there.
Theresienstadt - Answers ● who - undesireables
● what - also known as Terezin, ghetto and Transit camp
● where - near Prague
● when - November 24, 1941 - May 9, 1945
● why - 3 purposes - transit camp, ghetto-labor camp, and holding pen for German, Czech, and
Austrian Jews
● significance - propaganda function - depicted as transit for resettlement in the east instead of what
it really was - a collection center to deport Jews to other camps. Allowed the Red Cross to visit in June
1944
Operation Barbarossa - Answers ● Who - German army
● What - Invasion of Soviet Union
● Where - Soviet Union
● When - June 22, 1941
, ● Why - Hitler was pursuing the east and the greatest accumulation of land in the east was within
Soviet borders and under its control
● Significance - opened the war to two fronts, split the effectiveness of the German army, Blitzkrieg
tactics failed-change in policies to more ruthlessness
Bergen-Belsen - Answers ● who - German military authorities
● what - camp, often used for political prisoners, exclusively POWs until 1943
● where - towns of Bergen and Belsen in Germany
● when - established 1940 and British troops reached in April 15, 1945
● why - 3 main components - POW, residence, and prisoners camps
● significance - end place of many death marches, where Anne Frank died, later turned into DP camp
Kommissarbefehl (Commisar Order) - Answers ● Who - Hitler
● What - order issued by Hitler, said that any soviet commissar POW be executed as an enforcer of
the Communist ideology-also allowed for the killing of those that had bought into the Communist idea
● Where - Soviet Union
● When - March 1941
● Why - couldn't follow the typical wartime traditions because it was a war of conflicting ideologies
● Significance - blatant disregard for international law, even made his generals uneasy and torn
between orders and duty, lies to the people about Soviet involvement at Hague Convention.
Milgram Experiment - Answers ● who - Stanley Milgram
● what - Obedience to Authority experiment, button to deliver shock
● where - Yale
● when - 1963
● why - Attempt to understand the psychology behind the Nazi party and banality of evil, experiment
in the wake of Eichmann trial. Question - how far would people go to obey authority if it involved
hurting another person
● significance - people look to authority - will follow orders even if it means going against what they
feel is right
Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment - Answers ● who - Phillip Zimbardo
● what - Stanford Prison Experiment, research question - what happens when you put good people in
an evil place? - conformity
● where - Stanford
● when - summer of 1971
● why - testing roles
● significance - people take on the role they are given, had to be shut down early because of the
danger that someone would become physically or mentally damaged. People readily conform to the
social roles that they are expected to play
Madagascar Plan - Answers ● Who - Franz Rademacher, Head of the Jewish Department of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
● What - plan to relocate European Jews to Madagascar
● Where - Nazi Germany
● When - June 1940
● Why - Living space for Jews that did not encroach on living space of the Ethnic Germans; part of the
Germanization of the Greater Reich
● Significance - chosen because it could not adequately sustain many people; wanted to keep the
Jewish from flourishing no matter where they were.
Germinization - Answers ● who - German Population Planners
● what - General Plan East envisioned "Germanization" of the territory that stretched from the Old
Reich to the Ural Mountains - Aryan Germans and their slaves
● where - Old Reich to Ural Mountains
● when - General Plan East was drafted in 1941
● why - needed more Germans to reach the population size they wanted - needed more people to
have kids
● significance - artificial German notions of race and blood, shows how they "dreamed big"
Barbarossa Decree - Answers ● who - Hitler
● what - handling of Court Marshalls to keep fighting in the east, dealing with civilian crime, guerilla
tactics against people
● where - east
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression pact) - Answers Who - the foreign policy
ministers for both Germany and the Soviet Union
What - It was a non-aggression pact which made Hitler feel safe in the east. It also had a secret
agenda in dividing Poland between the two countries
Where - Soviet Union
When - August 1939
Why - So Hitler could plan expansion into Poland as well as focusing on his western front
Significance - Allowed Hitler to invade Poland with little resistance and being his "race and space"
policies as well as allowed him to focus his attention in the beginning to the west.
General Government - Answers Who - Germans, Jews and Polish, Hans Frank was appointed governor
What - German division of Poland between areas accepted into the Greater Reich and a territory for
Jews
Where - Poland
When - 1939
Why - expansion due to Lebansraum ideals-more land for ethnic Germans and an area to organize
and keep the Jewish people
Significance - Area specifically designed for Jewish people, first
Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) - Answers Who - ethnic Germans not living in Germany
What -term applied to those not in the established Reich or realm of Hitler's power, people/folk.
Where - Austria, Sudetenland, Poland etc - areas later incorporated into the General gov't instead of
just territories
When - 1933
Why - folk and race adding to the sense of a superior civilization
Significance - further divided the Reich into racial groups, Hitler used it as a reason to attack the areas
(Poland) - speeches about how ethnic Germans were being abused, got Germans on board with war
against Poland
RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) - Answers Who - Hitler and Heydrich
What - SD (surveillance/intelligence), Gestapo, and Criminal Police
Where - Greater Reich and occupied areas
When - September 27, 1939
Why - umbrella authority over different Nazi organizations,
Significance - Einsatzgruppen - mobile killing units - killed tens of thousands of Jews and Poles, Adolf
Eichmann and Final Solution
Lodz - Answers who - 80% ethnic Poles
what - An incorporated territory into the Third reich, home to one of the largest ghettos,
overcrowded and isolated
where - Poland
when - 1939
why - A place designated for the removal of undesired peoples from within the Third Reich
significance - Much of the mass killing of Jews after 1941 would be done there; also plans to reduce
Poles to slaves of Germany had early implementation there.
Theresienstadt - Answers ● who - undesireables
● what - also known as Terezin, ghetto and Transit camp
● where - near Prague
● when - November 24, 1941 - May 9, 1945
● why - 3 purposes - transit camp, ghetto-labor camp, and holding pen for German, Czech, and
Austrian Jews
● significance - propaganda function - depicted as transit for resettlement in the east instead of what
it really was - a collection center to deport Jews to other camps. Allowed the Red Cross to visit in June
1944
Operation Barbarossa - Answers ● Who - German army
● What - Invasion of Soviet Union
● Where - Soviet Union
● When - June 22, 1941
, ● Why - Hitler was pursuing the east and the greatest accumulation of land in the east was within
Soviet borders and under its control
● Significance - opened the war to two fronts, split the effectiveness of the German army, Blitzkrieg
tactics failed-change in policies to more ruthlessness
Bergen-Belsen - Answers ● who - German military authorities
● what - camp, often used for political prisoners, exclusively POWs until 1943
● where - towns of Bergen and Belsen in Germany
● when - established 1940 and British troops reached in April 15, 1945
● why - 3 main components - POW, residence, and prisoners camps
● significance - end place of many death marches, where Anne Frank died, later turned into DP camp
Kommissarbefehl (Commisar Order) - Answers ● Who - Hitler
● What - order issued by Hitler, said that any soviet commissar POW be executed as an enforcer of
the Communist ideology-also allowed for the killing of those that had bought into the Communist idea
● Where - Soviet Union
● When - March 1941
● Why - couldn't follow the typical wartime traditions because it was a war of conflicting ideologies
● Significance - blatant disregard for international law, even made his generals uneasy and torn
between orders and duty, lies to the people about Soviet involvement at Hague Convention.
Milgram Experiment - Answers ● who - Stanley Milgram
● what - Obedience to Authority experiment, button to deliver shock
● where - Yale
● when - 1963
● why - Attempt to understand the psychology behind the Nazi party and banality of evil, experiment
in the wake of Eichmann trial. Question - how far would people go to obey authority if it involved
hurting another person
● significance - people look to authority - will follow orders even if it means going against what they
feel is right
Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment - Answers ● who - Phillip Zimbardo
● what - Stanford Prison Experiment, research question - what happens when you put good people in
an evil place? - conformity
● where - Stanford
● when - summer of 1971
● why - testing roles
● significance - people take on the role they are given, had to be shut down early because of the
danger that someone would become physically or mentally damaged. People readily conform to the
social roles that they are expected to play
Madagascar Plan - Answers ● Who - Franz Rademacher, Head of the Jewish Department of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
● What - plan to relocate European Jews to Madagascar
● Where - Nazi Germany
● When - June 1940
● Why - Living space for Jews that did not encroach on living space of the Ethnic Germans; part of the
Germanization of the Greater Reich
● Significance - chosen because it could not adequately sustain many people; wanted to keep the
Jewish from flourishing no matter where they were.
Germinization - Answers ● who - German Population Planners
● what - General Plan East envisioned "Germanization" of the territory that stretched from the Old
Reich to the Ural Mountains - Aryan Germans and their slaves
● where - Old Reich to Ural Mountains
● when - General Plan East was drafted in 1941
● why - needed more Germans to reach the population size they wanted - needed more people to
have kids
● significance - artificial German notions of race and blood, shows how they "dreamed big"
Barbarossa Decree - Answers ● who - Hitler
● what - handling of Court Marshalls to keep fighting in the east, dealing with civilian crime, guerilla
tactics against people
● where - east
