Germany KO- Theme 2

Question 1

What happened on 10th November 1918?

Answer 1

Ebert-Groener Pact signed between gvt and army

Question 2

What happened on 15th November 1918?

Answer 2

Stinnes-Legien Agreement signed between the gvt labour unions and industrialists

Question 3

What happened in January 1919?

Answer 3

Spartacist uprising. Left wing upring led to Leibnecht and Rosa Luxemburg who aimed to replace SPD with communist gvt

Question 4

What happened in January 1920?

Answer 4

Treaty of Versailles comes into effect

Question 5

What happened in March 1920?

Answer 5

Kapp Putsch
Right wing uprising led by Wolfgang Kapp which aimed to replace SPD

Question 6

What happened in November 1923?

Answer 6

Munich Putsch
Beer Hall Putsch
Right wing uprising led by Hitler which aimed to replace SPD

Question 7

What happened on 28th February 1933?

Answer 7

The Decree for the protection of the People and State

Question 8

What happened in March 1933?

Answer 8

First concentration camp opened

Question 9

What happened on 25th March 1933?

Answer 9

Goebbels became propaganda minister

Question 10

What happened in April 1933?

Answer 10

Gestapo was set up

Question 11

What happened in August 1933?

Answer 11

Germany is a one party state
Not possible to oppose Hitler and the Nazis in Reichstag

Question 12

What happened on the 4th October 1933?

Answer 12

Editor of a newspaper was now personally responsible for what was published in it

Question 13

What happened in 1934?

Answer 13

The people’s court was set up
a court set up to try ‘Traitors of the Third Reich’

Question 14

What happened on 20th July 1944?

Answer 14

The July Bomb Plot- Colonel Claus Stauffenberg attempts to assassinate Hitler

Question 15

What happened on 18th October 1945?

Answer 15

Nuremberg trials began

Question 16

What happened in 1950?

Answer 16

BFV set up

Question 17

What happened May 1951?

Answer 17

Article131 stated ex-Nazis could be employed in Civil Service

Question 18

What happened in 1952?

Answer 18

right wing Socialist Reich Party is banned

Question 19

What happened 1954-1975?

Answer 19

Vietnam War which was subject for many in FRG

Question 20

What happened in 1956?

Answer 20

BND set up

Question 21

What happened in 1968?

Answer 21

Emergency Law passed which stated that police could track terrorists even if they were moving

Question 22

What happened in January 1972?

Answer 22

Anti-Radical Decree issued which stated that anyone who applied for a state job could be vetted

Question 23

What is Freikorps?

Answer 23

a group of ex-soldiers who lost their jobs after the TOV

Question 24

What is the Reichsexekution?

Answer 24

Federal Gvt had authority to remove the state gvt if they felt they threatened the constitution

Question 25

What was the Gestapo?

Answer 25

Secret police force who operated outside the police force

Question 26

What was the SS?

Answer 26

Hitler's personal bodyguards used as political police and ran concentration camps

Question 27

What was the Gau?

Answer 27

a small region of Germany

Question 28

What was Blockwarts (Block Wardens)?

Answer 28

Leaders of individual apartment blocks who watched out for infringements of Nazi rule

Question 29

Who were the Eidelweiss Pirates?

Answer 29

youth resistance group who formed in response to Hitler Youth

Question 30

Who was Deitrich Bonhoffer?

Answer 30

co-founder of Confessional Church spoke against Nazi interference with church- imprisoned from this

Question 31

What was the White Rose group?

Answer 31

non-violent student resistance group

Question 32

Who was Paster Martin Neimoller?

Answer 32

co-founder of Confessional Church spoke against Nazi interference with church- imprisoned for this

Question 33

What was 'Year Zero'?

Answer 33

starting point in FRG where previous involvement with Nazi could be forgotten

Question 34

What was APO (Extras Parliamentary Opposition)?

Answer 34

opposition group in FRG which was made up of left-wing intellectual students or young professionals

Question 35

What was SDS?

Answer 35

Germany Socialist Student Union- a fraction group who broke away from SPD as they were not radical enough

Question 36

What was the Red Army Faction (RAF)?

Answer 36

FRG terrorist group set up in 1970s

Question 37

What was BFV and BND?

Answer 37

organisations who investigated people who they believed to be working outside Basic Law

Question 38

What was Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9)?

Answer 38

Special operations unit to act against terrorists set up in 1972

Question 39

What is De-Nazification?

Answer 39

policy of removing Nazism from post-war Germany