Germany (booklet one)

Question 1

When did WWI start and end?

Answer 1

1914 to 1918

Question 2

How many Germans fought in WW1?

Answer 2

11 million

Question 3

How many German troops died in WW1?

Answer 3

2 million

Question 4

How many German troops were wounded in WW1?

Answer 4

4 million

Question 5

How much did the German government debt increase from as a result of WW1?

Answer 5

5 billion marks to 150 billion marks

Question 6

What did the British Navy do to German ports?

Answer 6

Blockaded them, so that supplies could not be brought in

Question 7

How many Germans died as a result of food shortages?

Answer 7

Over 750,000

Question 8

What options are many of the German people left with by 1918?

Answer 8

Revolts, Strike at the Stuttgart Daimler factory or Riots in Hanover

Question 9

What did the army refuse to do to the rioters in Hanover?

Answer 9

Refuse to control them as they agreed with the riot

Question 10

What were formed in many cities as a method of taking over the government?

Answer 10

Workers’ councils and soldiers’ councils

Question 11

When was the Navy mutiny?

Answer 11

October 1918

Question 12

Where was the German strike of 7 November 1918?

Answer 12

Munich, in the state of Bavaria

Question 13

Who was the strike lead by?

Answer 13

Jewish communist named Kurt Eisener

Question 14

Where was the Kaiser on 9 November 1918?

Answer 14

Army,headquarters in Spa 700 km from Berlin

Question 15

Did the minister tell him to do to save Germany?

Answer 15

Abdicate

Question 16

Did the Kaiser agree to abdicating at first?

Answer 16

No

Question 17

What support did the Kaiser lose next?

Answer 17

The army

Question 18

Who told him that he had lost support of the army?

Answer 18

General Willhelm Groener

Question 19

What did the Kaiser do on the evening of November 9?

Answer 19

He abdicated

Question 20

Where was he by the early morning of 10 November?

Answer 20

In exile in Holland

Question 21

What does the term armistice mean?

Answer 21

To cease fighting

Question 22

By signing the armistice, what was Germany doing?

Answer 22

Surrender to the allies, and admitting that they had lost WW1

Question 23

When was the armistice signed?

Answer 23

11 November 1918

Question 24

Who signed the armistice for Germany?

Answer 24

Matthias Erzberger

Question 25

What was the Dolchstoss theory?

Answer 25

The Dolchstoss or the ‘stabbing in the back myth’ was a notion widely believed in the right wing circle in Germany, after 1918, that the German army did not lose WW1 on the battlefield, but instead was betrayed by politicians, who made the new Republic

Question 26

Who were the November criminals?

Answer 26

The German government leaders who signed the armistice on November 11, 1918

Question 27

Who announced the Kaiser’s abdication?

Answer 27

Philip Scheidemann one the leaders of the SDP

Question 28

Would Germany be without the Kaiser?

Answer 28

A Republic

Question 29

Who was the leader of the SPD?

Answer 29

Freidrich Ebert

Question 30

Who handed the power over to Ebert on 9 November?

Answer 30

Max Von Baden, the Kaiser’s chancellor

Question 31

Who did Ebert make an agreement with to block the power of the communists?

Answer 31

General Groener of the army

Question 32

What did Ebert do to the Reichstag on 10 November?

Answer 32

He suspended it

Question 33

What was the Reichstag temporarily replaced with?

Answer 33

Council of people’s representatives made up of six moderate politicians

Question 34

What was this meant to prevent?

Answer 34

Anarchy and lawlessness

Question 35

What did Ebert hope to establish soon?

Answer 35

A new constitution

Question 36

Who did Ebert arrange to work with and support the worker’s and soldier’s council

Answer 36

Civil servants had worked under the Kaiser

Question 37

What activities were the civil servants to focus on?

Answer 37

Collecting taxes and running public services such as schools

Question 38

What did Ebert promised the army?

Answer 38

Not to take officer’s ranks or try to reform the army

Question 39

What did General Groener promise?

Answer 39

But the army would support the Republic

Question 40

What did Ebert from a certain industrial owners?

Answer 40

When new Republic would not confiscate land or factories from them, and there would be no nationalisation such as state controls of private industries

Question 41

Name one industrial owner who supported Ebert?

Answer 41

Hugo Stinnes

Question 42

Who is the leader of trade unions?

Answer 42

Carl Legien

Question 43

What did Ebert promise Legein?

Answer 43

To try to get 8 hour working days for the working class

Question 44

Why did Ebert want to elect a national assembly?

Answer 44

To create a new constitution for Germany

Question 45

When were the elections for the national assembly?

Answer 45

19 January 1919

Question 46

What percentages of eligible Germans voted?

Answer 46

82%

Question 47

What percentages of the vote did the SPD get?

Answer 47

40%

Question 48

What percentages of the vote did the central party get?

Answer 48

20%

Question 49

When did the national assembly meet for the first time?

Answer 49

February 1919

Question 50

Where do they meet?

Answer 50

Town of Weimar 250 km from Berlin

Question 51

Why did they meet here?

Answer 51

Because it was too much violence in Berlin

Question 52

When was a new constitution agreed?

Answer 52

31st of July 1919

Question 53

How many votes for and how many voted against the new constitution?

Answer 53

262 votes for, 75 votes against

Question 54

What was the name of the new Republic?

Answer 54

The Weimar Republic