Germany

Question 1

Who was Gustav stresemann

Answer 1

He became chancellor in 1923, he fixed Germanys financial situation. He Was chancellor for only 102
days!

Question 2

Who are nationalists?

Answer 2

Nationalists believed in the strength of the individual. The weak deserved to die out, and the strong survive. By having strong individuals, a nation would also be strong.
They also believed in the purity of a nation’s race. Non-natives, such as immigrants, became increasingly unwelcome.

Question 3

What is the Weimar Republic

Answer 3

A republic is a country without a hereditary ruler, such as a king or emperor. The new Government first met in the town of Weimar.

Question 4

What is the Reichstag?

Answer 4

The German parliament. Refers to both the people who meet there (called deputies, and they are similar to our MPs) and the building.

Question 5

What were the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic

Answer 5

Article 48 and proportional representation

Question 6

Are Spartacus nationalists or communists?

Answer 6

Communists

Question 7

What was the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 7

The formal agreement that ended WWI. The fighting had stopped in November 1918, but the formal peace deal was signed in summer 1919.

Question 8

Who did hyperinflation benefit?

Answer 8

People who had borrowed money, because it was easy to pay off their debts.

Question 9

What year did France invade the Ruhr valley?

Answer 9

1923

Question 10

What key event happened in 1923

Answer 10

Hyperinflation and the invasion of the Ruhr

Question 11

Are Freikorps nationalists or communists

Answer 11

Nationalists

Question 12

Who are communists?

Answer 12

Communists believed that all human history had been leading up to the overthrow of the rich by the workers. After a revolution all workers would unite and live equally.

Question 13

What new currency did stresemann introduce?

Answer 13

The rentenmark

Question 14

What year was the Dawes plan?

Answer 14

1924

Question 15

What year was the Locarno pact with France?

Answer 15

1925

Question 16

When did Germany join the League of Nations?

Answer 16

1926

Question 17

When was the golden age of Weimar?

Answer 17

A period between 1924-29 that saw rapid and significant positive change for some.

Question 18

Who was Joseph goebbles

Answer 18

He was the minister of propaganda

Question 19

What forms of propaganda did the nazis use

Answer 19

Cinema
Radio!
Rallies
Posters
Books
Newspapers
Music
Theatre
Architecture
Art

Question 20

What were the aims of Hitlers foreign policy

Answer 20

To reverse the treaty of Versailles
To destroy communism
lebensraum
anschluss

Question 21

When was the gestapo created?

Answer 21

In 1933

Question 22

Who set up the gestapo

Answer 22

Goering

Question 23

which nazi foreign minister signed an agreement with the Russians in 1939?

Answer 23

Von Ribben

Question 24

What year was the Nuremberg laws passed?

Answer 24

1935

Question 25

What were the Nuremberg laws?

Answer 25

Laws against Jews

Question 26

How did Hitler control the education system?

Answer 26

- All textbooks had to be approved by the ministry of education - Mein Kampf became a standard text - Teachers had to swear loyalty to Hitler and join the Nazi Teachers league - All lessons began and ended with the students saluting and saying ‘Heil Hitler’. - Nazi themes were presented through every subject.

Question 27

How many members did Hitler youth have by 1939?

Answer 27

7million members

Question 28

When did it become compulsory to be a member of Hitler youth?

Answer 28

1936

Question 29

What was the aim of the night of the long knives?

Answer 29

To remove Nazi opposition within Germany

Question 30

Who set up the gestapo?

Answer 30

Goering

Question 31

What was the purpose of the gestapo?

Answer 31

It could arrest and imprison those suspected of opposing the state

Question 32

What was the SD?

Answer 32

They were set up 1931 and acted as the intelligence body of the Nazi party. Their aim was to discover potential Nazi enemies and remove them

Question 33

When was KRISTALLNACHT?

Answer 33

9/10th of November

Question 34

How many Jews were sent to concentration camps because of kristallnact?

Answer 34

20,000

Question 35

What were the results of kristallnact?

Answer 35

• About 100 Jews were killed, 20,000 were sent to concentration camps and 7,500 businesses were destroyed. • Hitler officially blamed the Jews for provoking the attacks. • The Jews were fined 1 billion Reichsmarks as compensation for the damage caused. • Jew were no longer permitted to own businesses. • In January 1939 the Reich Office for Jewish Emigration was established. • The SS were responsible for removing Jews through forced emigration. • From 30th April 1939 Jews were evicted from their homes and forced into designated ghettos.

Question 36

How many km of autobahns were built under the RAD schemes?

Answer 36

7000 km

Question 37

What year was conscription reintroduced?

Answer 37

1935

Question 38

By 1939 how big was the army?

Answer 38

1.4million men

Question 39

How many people went on strength through joy (kdf) holidays in 1938

Answer 39

10millin

Question 40

What were the impacts of beauty of work?

Answer 40

It was set up by the kdf to improve working conditions, it organised the building of canteens, swimming pools and sports facilities

Question 41

How many people were unemployed in 1932?

Answer 41

6million

Question 42

Who is Goebbles and who is goering?

Answer 42

Goering is the head of the gestapo, he wanted to lead the armed forces and considered rohm an opponent Whereas Goebbles was the minister of propaganda

Question 43

When was the spartacists uprising?

Answer 43

1919

Question 44

Who lead the spartacists uprising?

Answer 44

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht

Question 45

Who shut down the spartacists uprising?

Answer 45

Freikorps

Question 46

What did the spartacists want?

Answer 46

They wanted to establish a communist state

Question 47

Who lead the Kapp putsch?

Answer 47

Wolfgang Kapp

Question 48

Why did the Kapp putsch fail?

Answer 48

The workers of Berlin went on strike