germany 2

Question 1

What was the Kaiser?

Answer 1

The emperor of Germany who fled in 1918

Question 2

When and why did the French occupy the Ruhr?

Answer 2

1923

• Weimar stopped paying reparations
• French occupied the Ruhr (main working area in Germany) so workers couldn’t work
• Weimar used passive resistance and paid the workers leave
• This led to hyperinflation

Question 3

What and when was the Munich Putsch?

Answer 3

1923

• The Nazi party marched into Munich
• Hitler forced Kahr (important political leader) to support Nazis
• The next day Kahr withdrew support and Hitler was arrested and 14 Nazis killed

Question 4

Who was Stresemann and what did he do?

Answer 4

Became Chancellor of Germany in 1923

• Brought in new currency (rentenmark) where 1 rentenmark = 1000 billion marks
• Persuaded the French to leave the Ruhr
• Signed Locarno pact in 1925 (France, Belgium, Italy and Belgium) to not invade each other
• Joined league of nations in 1926
• Borrowed lots of money from the US

Question 5

What was the Dawes Plan?

Answer 5

1924

• Give Germany longer to pay allies
• Take loans from US

Question 6

What was the Young Plan?

Answer 6

1929

- Lowered reparations from 132,000 million marks to 37,000 million

Question 7

What was the SA and when was it set it up?

Answer 7

The Nazi army

1921

Question 8

What was the SS?

Answer 8

Hitler’s private army

Question 9

When was the wall street crash?

Answer 9

1929

Question 10

How well did the Nazis do in the 1928 vote?

Answer 10

Got 3%

- The country was stable so people were less supportive of extremist groups

Question 11

How well did the Nazis do in the 1933 vote?

Answer 11

Got 44%

• This was after the wall street crash
• Hitler became chancellor
• Hindenburg was president

Question 12

What was the Reichstagg fire and when was it?

Answer 12

1933

• A fire in the Reichstagg building
• A communist was found there
• Hitler convinced everyone it was the entire communist party
• Hitler used the emergency powers
• This enabled him to arrest people without trial

Question 13

What was the Trade Unions?

Answer 13

The banning of all other political parties (excluding the Nazis)
1933

Question 14

What was the enabling act?

Answer 14

1933

- Hitler could pass laws without the Reichstagg

Question 15

What and when was the Night of the Long Knives

Answer 15

1934

• Hitler killed Rhom (the leader of the SA) and most of the SA
• The SA had over 3 million members and people were too terrified of it
• Hitler believed Rhom was undermining him

Question 16

When did Hindenburg die?

Answer 16

1934

- Hitler made himself Chancellor AND president

Question 17

What and when was the Nuremburg laws?

Answer 17

1935

- Jews couldn’t get citizenship, work or marry a non-jew

Question 18

What was the increase of children at Hitler youth?

Answer 18

30% in 1933

80% in 1939

Question 19

What and when was kristallnacht

Answer 19

1938

- Jews were moved into ghettos

Question 20

What and when was the final solution?

Answer 20

1942

• To kill all jews
• Over 6 million would have died

Question 21

When and why did world war two begin?

Answer 21

1939

• Hitler and Stalin (the dictator of the USSR) teamed up and agreed to invade Poland
• The land would be split between them

Question 22

When was world war two good for Germany?

Answer 22

1939=1941

Question 23

What happened in 1941?

Answer 23

Hitler attacked the USSR and began to lose the war

Question 24

What and when was the July bomb plot?

Answer 24

1944

• Satuffenburg (a german officer) planted a bomb to kill hitler
• He was arrested and killed

Question 25

When did Hitler die?

Answer 25

1945

Question 26

When did Germany surrender in the war?

Answer 26

1945

Question 27

When was the Treaty of Versailles signed and what were the conditions?

Answer 27

1919
Land - 13% and 6 million people (the land also contained raw minerals such as coal)
Army - cut down to 100,000 men, navy to 15,000, and only 6 battleships (no air force, tanks or submarines)
Money - £6600 million