germany key ideas

Question 1

treaty of versailles

Answer 1

• reparations of 6600 million
• land lost eg also ace lorraine, 15% of land given to others
• army reduced to 100,000 and no military

Question 2

stresemann reforms

Answer 2

• economy improved through Rentenmark, Dawes plan and Young plan getting loan from USA and reparations extended to 1998
• improves foreign relations with Locarno pact and league of nations

Question 3

opposition to the Weimar republic

Answer 3

1919 Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebnicht Spartacists crushed by Friekorps
1920 Kapp Putsch
1923 Munich Putsch- start of nazi rise

Question 4

Hitler becomes chancellor

Answer 4

Weak Hindenburg fears communism after they get 100 votes in july 1932
german depression leads to growth in supply of hitler

Question 5

reichstag fire

Answer 5

• burns down in 1933
• blamed on communist Van der Lubbe
• article 48 used

Question 6

night of long knives

Answer 6

june 30 1934

SA are too rowdy- SS murder 400 members including leader ernst rohm

Question 7

change for women

Answer 7

loss of jobs
children kitchen church
mothers cross for 8 children

Question 8

yalta

Answer 8

feb 1945
stalin roosevelt and churchill
agree germany to be demilitarised

Question 9

potsdam

Answer 9

august 1945
confirms yalta
tense as russia becomes communist

Question 10

berlin blockade

Answer 10

Stalin annoyed by trizonia in 1948

block train- you lanes used, three airports, every thirty seconds