germany revision yr 10

Question 1

where did Germany attack in 1941?

Answer 1

the USSR

Question 2

what was the impact of the USSR invasion?

Answer 2

the freezing Russian winter meant their guns did not fire, and they did not have the proper clothing for the temperature. the Russians were able to push they back towards Germany. in the battle of Stalingrad 80,000 Germans died and 90,000 surrendered

Question 3

what were the reasons behind rationing?

Answer 3

supplies were needed for the front line because they were loosing, and there were food shortages

Question 4

what was rationed?

Answer 4

food and clothing, eg:
-one egg a week
-hot water two days a week

Question 5

who was made armaments minster and when?

Answer 5

albert speer, 1942

Question 6

what was everything focused on when the country was organised for total war?

Answer 6

making weapons and growing food for soldiers

Question 7

what was stopped when the country was organised for total war?

Answer 7

beer houses, dance halls, and sweet shops were closed. letter boxes were boarded up

Question 8

how many foreign workers were brought in from countries Germany had conquered to work as slave labour?

Answer 8

seven million

Question 9

when did the Americans and the British bomb Germany?

Answer 9

1942

Question 10

what were the impacts of the 1942 bombings?

Answer 10

• no electricity, water or transport
• people left their homes to find refuge in safer places
• there were thousands of deaths
• bombing caused food shortages and gas explosions
• Nazi support weakened

Question 11

why were people opposed to Nazis/Hitler?

Answer 11

• uncomfortable with concentration camps
• didn’t like gestapo
• shocked at treatment of the Jews or mentally/physically disable
• hated restrictions and limits put on their lives

Question 12

what was the lowest lever of resistance

Answer 12

mumbling/grumbling
- often in the privacy of their own homes
- say an anti-Hitler joke
- complain about the treatment of a Jewish friend

Question 13

what was passive resistance

Answer 13

when Germans publicly showed that they didn’t support Nazis by refusing to do what they were told
eg they refused to give the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute, or didnt give money to the Hitler youth members who were collecting funds

Question 14

what did the White rose group do?

Answer 14

they urged Germans to get rid of Hitler. they handed out leaflets, put up posters and wrote graffiti

Question 15

who were the leaders of the White rose group?

Answer 15

Hans and Sophie Scholl (siblings)

Question 16

when were Has and Sophie Scholl caught?

Answer 16

in 1943, they were beheaded for their ‘crimes’

Question 17

what did the Edelweiss Pirates and the Navajos (banned youth groups) do?

Answer 17

beat up Nazi officials, and helped army deserters

Question 18

how many young rebel groups were there in Germany?

Answer 18

approximately 2000

Question 19

who were the Kreisau circle and what did they do?

Answer 19

they were a group of army officers, university professors, and aristocrats who were shocked at Hitler’s plans for war and his brutality. they discussed getting rid of Hitler but didn’t do anything.

Question 20

what group contacted the British about getting rid of Hitler

Answer 20

the Beck-Goerdeler group, but nothing could be agreed

Question 21

who led the the Beck-Goerdeler group?

Answer 21

former army general Ludwig Beck and Nazi official Karl Goerdeler

Question 22

when was the July Bomb plot?

Answer 22

1944

Question 23

what group led the July Bomb plot?

Answer 23

the Beck-Goerdeler group

Question 24

what happened in the July bomb plot

Answer 24

an army officer (Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg) agreed to be a part of a group who were going to detonate a bomb where Hitler was meeting. afterwards, they wanted to take over, end the war, and change Germany for the better. the bomb only burned Hitler’s hair, burst his ear drums, and ripped some of his clothes off, it didn’t kill him.

Question 25

how many people did the July Bomb plot kill?

Answer 25

4

Question 26

when were the Germans pushed out of USSR?

Answer 26

by the end of 1944

Question 27

when was Berlin surrounded?

Answer 27

24th of April, 1945

Question 28

when did Hitler commit suicide?

Answer 28

30th of April, 1945

Question 29

when did Germany surrender?

Answer 29

8th of May

Question 30

what battle made Russia (and Britain, France, and USA) have the upperhand?

Answer 30

battle of Stalingrad