1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Heavy borrowing by European nations from USA during WWI contributed to instability in European countries. Widespread unemployment, countries raising tariffs and the removal of US investment in Europe was caused by this | Great Depression | 2. A mindset that people of Jewish heritage were inferior to other races created in Germany by Hitler. Discriminated against Jews | Anti-Semitism | 3. The new German republic in 1921 that owed 33 billion annually to the allied reparations. | Weimar Republic | 4. He was arrested for treason and while in jail wrote "Mein Kampf". If you get this wrong Sir Jeremy will faint. | Hitler | 5. This allowed Hitler to get rid of the Reichstag parliament and pass laws without reference to parliament #DictatorshipGoals | Enabling Act | 6. In one paragraph, summarise page 165 in authoritarian states on the conditions in which Hitler's authoritarian state emerged. | vary | 7. An arson attack on an important building in Berlin on 27 Feb 1933. The event was used as evidence by the Nazi Party that communists were plotting against the German government | Reichstag Fire | 8. One of the key actors in the deportation of European Jewry during the Holocaust. He played a central role in deporting over 1.5 million jews from all over Europe to killing centres. | Adolf Eichmann | 9. A purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered SS to muder the organisation leaders. Including Ernst Rohm. | Night of Long Knives | 10. A failed takeover of the government in Bavaria (S Germany) where Hitler was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in prison. | Beer Hall Putsch | 11. NSDAP results in the Reichtag elections for: 1928, 2932? | May 2.6%, Nov 37.3% | 12. demanding land from "neighbouring races" such as Poland, Russia, and Ukraine means what in German? | Lebensraum | 13. A plan introduced by the United States to help Germany by decreasing their reparation payments. Fr withdrew from Ruhr and America gave Germany loans to help economic recovery under this. | Dawes Plan | 14. Nazi laws that deprived German Jews of their German citizenship and put severe restrictions on them. | Nuremberg Laws | 15. using page 126 from the cambridge book, analyse Hitlers strengths and weaknesses as a dictator in 1-2 paragraphs. | vary | 16. Hitlers secret police. | Gestapo | 17. Young Nazi's who pledged loyalty to Hitler and Germany. They were trained for war and taught anti semitism. | Hitler Youth | 18. Appointed Reich Minister of Propaganda and proved to be an expert in his mastery of propaganda. | Goebbels | 19. Who is Heinrich Himmler? Provide a thorough description. | Answers will vary SS | 20. Nicknamed the "Blonde Beast", this man was second in importance to Heinrich Himmler in the Nazi SS organisation. Who is he? At the Wannsee Conference, he presented the plans authorised by Hitler for the final solution. | Reinhard Heydrich. | 21. occupation of the industrial region in Germany by French and Belgian troops. The action was provoked by German deficiencies in the coal and coke deliveries to France required by the reparations agreement after World War I. | Ruhr | 22. A series of agreements whereby Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy mutually guaranteed peace in western Europe. | Locarno Treaty | 23. What is the name for the uprising that was primarily a power struggle between the moderate Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) led by Friedrich Ebert, and the more radical communists of the Communist Party of Germany, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg | Spartacist Uprising | 24. A 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them. | Kellogg-Briand Pact. | 25. Using page 85 of the Hodder education book, copy down one key phase of the second world war | vary | 26. A term used by Adolf Hitler in the 1920’s to describe the 1,000-year empire he intended to create. | Third Re | 27. Parliamentary wing of the Nazi Party. Initally, it was made up largely from the Freikorps and ex-soldiers. They wore brown uniforms, following the lead of Mussolini’s Fascist Blackshirts in Italy. | SA | 28. Was the summary of a meeting on 5 November 1937 between German dictator Adolf Hitler and his military and foreign policy leadership where Hitler's future expansionist policies were outlined. The meeting marked a turning point in Hitler's foreign policies, which then began to radicalise. | Hossbach Memorandum | 29. German “Union”, political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938. Mooted in 1919 by Austria, Anschluss with Germany remained a hope (chiefly with Austrian Social Democrats) during 1919–33, after which Hitler’s rise to power made it less attractive. | Anschlussis | 30. The German name (used in English in the first half of the 20th century) to refer to those northern, southern, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by ethnic German speakers. | Sudetenland | 31. Eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front. It began with the declaration of war by the western Allies. | Phoney War | 32. After 10 million deaths in the First World War, many countries were determined to prevent any future conflict. In the 1920s the League of Nations tried to follow the idea of collective security: the idea that countries acting together could discourage aggression and, if necessary, act together to stop aggressors. The idea sucked and failed. What was the second idea? | Appeasement | 33. secret plan to offer Benito Mussolini most of Ethiopia (then called Abyssinia) in return for a truce in the Italo-Ethiopian War. It was put together by British foreign secretary and French premier who tried and failed to achieve a reconciliation between France and Italy. When news of the plan leaked out, it drew immediate and widespread denunciation. | Hoare-Laval Pact | 34. Alliance between Germany and Italy. Signed by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini on May 22, 1939, it formalized the 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis agreement, linking the two countries politically and militarily. | Pact of Steel. | 35. Chief of staff of the SA. Accused of trying to overtake the Nazis and Hitler. Murdered. | Ernst Rohm | 36. Foreign minister of Germany. Signed Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939. | Joachim Von Ribbentrop | 37. Worked at Auschwits and performed cruel medical experiments. | Josef Mengele | 38. What is the July 20 plot (1944)? Write a one paragraph detailed explanation. | assassination attempt | 39. List and describe 4 opposition groups to Hitler. | vary | 40. Who were the November Criminals? | vary | 41. Using page 99 of the Hodder education book, what is the image trying to convey? | vary |
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