Germany

Question 1

What were Reichfeinde?

Answer 1

Enemies of the state

Question 2

How many votes did Prussia have in the Bundesrat vs how many required for a veto?

Answer 2

17 vs 14

Question 3

Who could vote in the Rechistag elections?

Answer 3

Men over 25

Question 4

What % of the vote did the National Liberals win in 1871 and 1878?

Answer 4

30.1% down to 23.1%

Question 5

What proportion of the population were Catholics during the Kaiserreich?

Answer 5

30%

Question 6

What does Kulturkampf mean?

Answer 6

Culture struggle - Bismarck vs Catholocism

Question 7

By 1879, how many priests had been jailed or exiled as part of the Prussian May Laws of 1873?

Answer 7

1800

Question 8

Why did Bismarck implement the Kulturkampf?

Answer 8

Challenge the power of the Catholics Centre Party, unite Germany against a common enemy

Question 9

Why did Bismark adopt tariff reform in 1879?

Answer 9

Economic issues in Germany, Kulturkampf was over so he didn’t need the National Liberals anymore

Question 10

What did anti-socialist legislation of the 1880s do?

Answer 10

Banned socialist meetings, powers to arrest socialist politicians, ban socialist newspapers

Question 11

What was the word for unity in government at the start of the war?

Answer 11

Burgfriede

Question 12

Who came up with the Peace Resolution in July 1917?

Answer 12

Erzberger

Question 13

How many people were on strike in April 1917 and January 1918?

Answer 13

200,000 and 1 million

Question 14

What was the Kreuznach Programme?

Answer 14

Military plan for annexation at the end of the war

Question 15

What did Woodrow Wilson demand as part of his Fourteen Points?

Answer 15

Germany to be democratic

Question 16

Why did Ludendorff sanction political changes?

Answer 16

To be able to blame the politicians for taking a settlement at the end of the war

Question 17

Who led the Spartacists after being part of the USPD?

Answer 17

Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebnecht

Question 18

What changes did Max of Baden make when he bacame Chancellor in October 1918?

Answer 18

Army answerable to the Reichstag, got rid of Prussian three tier system

Question 19

Where did naval soldiers mutiny?

Answer 19

Kiel

Question 20

What was the Ebert-Groener Pact, November 1918?

Answer 20

Ebert agreeing not to interfere with the army if they didn’t interfere with the new Republic

Question 21

What was the Stinnes-Liegen agreement, 1918?

Answer 21

Agreement between trade unions and industrialists

Question 22

What was Article 48?

Answer 22

Emergency powers of the President

Question 23

What was Proporcional Representation?

Answer 23

60,000 votes to get a seat in the Reichstag

Question 24

What did the Reichstag Fire Decrees, 28th Feb 1933 enable Hitler to do?

Answer 24

Arrest without warrant, freedom of speech and assembly suspended

Question 25

What did the Enabling Act, March 1933 enable Hitler to do?

Answer 25

Pass laws without going through the Reichstag

Question 26

What was Kopenick Blood Week?

Answer 26

Suppression of socialists in June 1933

Question 27

What was the Night of the Long Knives, June 1934?

Answer 27

Hitler killing SA leaders to remove internal opposition from SA (3million members)

Question 28

What were Gauleiters?

Answer 28

Regional Nazi Officials

Question 29

Give one example of state-party dualism

Answer 29

Operation Todt and Minister of Transport, DAF and Ministry of Economics

Question 30

What is Gleichschaltung?

Answer 30

Gradually making Germany Nazi

Question 31

How did Hitler get rid of the threat of local governments?

Answer 31

SA caused disorder in the local governments, Hitler took control of them

Question 32

How did Hitler deal with trade unions?

Answer 32

Smashed up offices, banned them, coordinated 169 of them into the DAF, under Robert Ley

Question 33

What was the Volksgemeicschaft?

Answer 33

Hitler’s ideal people’s community

Question 34

What was included in the Nuremberg Laws, 1935?

Answer 34

Jews couldn’t be citizens, Aryans and non-Aryans couldn’t be married

Question 35

One strength of the new constitution in 1949?

Answer 35

No more Article 48, no Prussia, contructive vote of no confidence

Question 36

What % of the population in the FRG was Catholic?

Answer 36

45%

Question 37

In what way did the CDU and SPD differ in terms of economic policy?

Answer 37

CDU wanted market economy, SPD wanted more control

Question 38

What was the Godesberg Programme, 1959?

Answer 38

SPD agreeing to be in coalitions with CDU

Question 39

What was the Hallstein Doctrine?

Answer 39

FRG not recognising GDR or allies