Dates

Question 1

When was the Reichstag fire?

Answer 1

February 1933

Question 2

When was the Enabling Act, the elections and the establishment of concentration camps?

Answer 2

March 1933

Question 3

When were Jewish businesses boycotted?

Answer 3

April 1933

Question 4

When was the Concordat signed?

Answer 4

July 1933

Question 5

When was a one party state established?

Answer 5

July 1933

Question 6

When was the sterilisation law?

Answer 6

July 1933

Question 7

When was Hitler appointed Chancellor?

Answer 7

10th January 1933

Question 8

When was the confessional church established?

Answer 8

1934

Question 9

When was the night of the Long knives?

Answer 9

November 1934

Question 10

When did Hindenburg die?

Answer 10

1934

Question 11

When did Hitler combine office of Chancellor and president?

Answer 11

1934, following the death of Hindenburg

Question 12

When were the Nuremberg race laws?

Answer 12

1935

Question 13

When was Lebensborn introduced?

Answer 13

1935

Question 14

When were socialists and communists arrested on mass?

Answer 14

1935

Question 15

When did Goering introduce the four year plan to help prepare for war?

Answer 15

1936

Question 16

When did Nazis relax policy towards women due to needing workers?

Answer 16

1937

Question 17

When was Kristallnacht and the decree for the ‘Struggle Against the Gypsy Plague?’

Answer 17

1938

Question 18

When was it made compulsory to join the Hitler Youth?

Answer 18

1939

Question 19

When was the euthanasia campaign started?

Answer 19

1939

Question 20

When was Bishop Galen’s sermon against euthanasia?

Answer 20

1941

Question 21

When was the Wansee conference and what happened?

Answer 21

1942 - agreed on the Final Solution for the Jewish problem

Question 22

What happened to the edelweiss pirates in 1944?

Answer 22

They were executed in Cologne

Question 23

When was the Yalta conference?

Answer 23

February 1945

Question 24

When did Hitler die?

Answer 24

April 1945

Question 25

When did Germany surrender?

Answer 25

May 1945

Question 26

When was the Potsdam conference?

Answer 26

July - August 1945

Question 27

When did the KPD in the SPD merge in the eastern zone of Germany and what party did they form?

Answer 27

1946, the Socialist Unity party

Question 28

When was RE removed from the East German education system and under what law?

Answer 28

1946 - the Law for the Democratisation of German schools.

Question 29

When was Bizonia formed?

Answer 29

1947

Question 30

What was the Marshall Plan and when was it implemented?

Answer 30

1947 - offered aid to Europe

Question 31

What was the Truman doctrine and when was it announced?

Answer 31

1947 - offered support to nations fighting Communism

Question 32

When was currency reformed in the western zone?

Answer 32

1948 - the Eastern zone followed

Question 33

When did the Berlin blockade start?

Answer 33

1948

Question 34

When was Trizonia formed?

Answer 34

1949

Question 35

When did the Berlin blockade end?

Answer 35

1949

Question 36

When did West Germany (the Federal Republic) come into existence?

Answer 36

May 1949

Question 37

When was Adenauer elected Chancellor of West Germany?

Answer 37

August 1949

Question 38

What organisation did West Germany join in 1949?

Answer 38

The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation

Question 39

When did the East Germany (Democratic Republic) come into existence?

Answer 39

October 1949

Question 40

When was the Stasi created in East Germany?

Answer 40

1950

Question 41

When did war break out in Korea?

Answer 41

1950

Question 42

When did West Germany join the European Coal and Steel Community?

Answer 42

1951

Question 43

When was the first series of collectivisation in East Germany?

Answer 43

1952

Question 44

When were Stalin's notes and what did they suggest?

Answer 44

1952 – unification of Germany

Question 45

When were the SRP outlawed in West Germany?

Answer 45

1952

Question 46

When did Stalin die?

Answer 46

1953

Question 47

When was the Berlin Rising?

Answer 47

1953

Question 48

When did Adenauer win his second election?

Answer 48

1953

Question 49

Which youth service was reintroduced and imposed in east Germany in 1954?

Answer 49

Youth Dedication Service

Question 50

When did West Germany join NATO? What was the East German response?

Answer 50

1954 - the Warsaw Pact.

Question 51

When was the West German army recreated?

Answer 51

1955

Question 52

When did Adenauer visit Moscow the return of former prisoner of wars?

Answer 52

1955

Question 53

When were the KPD outlawed West Germany?

Answer 53

1956

Question 54

When was the Hungarian uprising?

Answer 54

1956

Question 55

When did Adenauer win his third election and what was special about it?

Answer 55

1957 – he won an overall majority

Question 56

When was the EEC (European Economic Community) established?

Answer 56

1957

Question 57

When did the CDU denounce the Ahlen programme?

Answer 57

1957

Question 58

When was the second wave of collectivisation in east Germany?

Answer 58

1960

Question 59

When was the Berlin Wall built?

Answer 59

1961

Question 60

When did Adenauer win his fourth election and what had changed?

Answer 60

1961 – reduction in the number of seats

Question 61

When was the Der Spiegel affair?

Answer 61

1962

Question 62

When did Adenauer resign?

Answer 62

1963

Question 63

What was introduced into east Germany in 1963?

Answer 63

The new economic system for planning and direction

Question 64

When was the marriage law?

Answer 64

1935

Question 65

When was it made easier for infertile couples to divorce?

Answer 65

1938