Germany stats Flashcards
(134 cards)
1
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… G.s fought in war
A
11 million
2
Q
… G. soldiers died & … wounded - … of G. soldiers became casualties
A
almost 2 million
over 4 million
over 55%
3
Q
cost of war trebled G. gov.’s debt from … to … by 1918
A
50bn marks
150bn marks
4
Q
… G.s died because of food shortages
A
over 750,000
5
Q
national election Jan 1919 … G. people voted & moderate parties won most seats: SPD won … & Centre Party won …
A
over 80%
40%
20%
6
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after … National Assembly announced new Weimar Constitution = finished
A
6 months
7
Q
Article … of constitution confirmed that G. was to be democracy
A
1
8
Q
(W. Constitution) voting age reduced from … to …
A
25
21
9
Q
(W. Constitution) Reichstag elected by public every … : roughly 1 deputy per … people
A
4 years
60,000
10
Q
(W. Constitution) President elected every
A
7 years
11
Q
… different parties in 1920s
A
29
12
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… diff. coalition gov.s 1919-23
A
9
13
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Article … provided president with ‘Emergency Powers’ in times of national emergency
A
48
14
Q
(ToV) Army reduced to … men
A
100,000
15
Q
(ToV) Navy reduced to … battleships
A
6
16
Q
(ToV) G. ordered to pay … to Allies
A
£6.6bn
17
Q
(ToV) G. to provide France with coal (from Saar coalfields) for
A
15 years
18
Q
(ToV) Article … stated G. caused war & responsible for devastation caused = ‘war guilt’ clause
A
231
19
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6th Jan 1919 … workers took to streets & soon had control of Berlin
A
over 100,000
20
Q
by Jan 1919 … Freikorps units in G.
A
~200
21
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Mar 1919 further Communist uprising in Berlin = put down by … Freikorps - … rebels killed & … ‘suspected Communists’ rounded-up & executed by Freikorps
A
30,000
over 1,000
800
22
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(Kapp Putsch) … armed Freikorps marched on Berlin with intention of overthrowing gov.
A
over 5,000
23
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(Kapp Putsch) … workers went on strike
A
1000s
24
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after … Kapp realised didn’t have support of people of Berlin so couldn’t govern
A
4 days
25
first coalition gov. had ... of seats so relatively stable
77%
26
after elections 1920 SPD lost ... of seats & main 'moderate' parties now only had ... of Reichstag seats - extremist parties (openly wanted to overthrow democracy) now had ... of seats between them
over 1/3
45%
20%
27
1919-22 ... political assassinations - not single right-wing assassin convicted & executed but ... left-wing assassins executed
376
10
28
ToV deprived G. of ... of iron & ... of coal reserves
50%
15%
29
Ruhr contained ... G. coal, iron & steel reserves
~80%
30
by 1923 gov. had ... paper mills & ... printing shops dedicated to printing banknotes
300
2,000
31
1919 loaf of bread = ... , 1923 loaf of bread = ...
1 mark
200,000bn marks
32
(Dawes Plan) reparations temporarily halved to ... per year & US banks provide G. with loans of ... to help industry recover
£50 million
$25bn
33
(Young Plan) total reparations payments reduced from ... to ... & G. given extra ... to pay total debt
£6.6bn
£2bn
59 years
34
vote in 1929 resulted in ... G.s (...) voting in favour of Young Plan
35 million
85%
35
1924 ... total workforce unemp. -> 1926 unemp. fell to ... & by 1928 ...
over 4%
2 million
1.3 million
36
real wages increased by ... 1925-28
25%
37
1927 shortened length working week from ... to ...
50 hours
46 hours
38
Kellogg-Briand Pact signed by G. & ... other countries
61
39
1927 Unemployment Insurance Act introduced unemp. insurance for ... workers -> workers paid ... of wages & in return provided with ... per week if sick/couldn't find work
over 16 million
3%
60 marks
40
by 1923 shortage of ... homes in G. -> 1925 gov. introduced new ... 'rent tax'
1 million
15%
41
1925-29 new building associations built ... homes
over 64,000
42
(Golden Years?) in total ... homes built, ... renovated & homelessness reduced by ...
over 2 million
200,000
more than 60%
43
Reich Pension Law (1920) provided pensions to ... war veterans, ... war widows & ... parents of dead servicemen
750,000
400,000
200,000
44
in Weimar elections turnout of female voters consistently
over 90%
45
by 1926 ... women had been elected to Reichstag & ... members female
32
almost 10%
46
(W. constitution) Article ... gave women equal rights with men, equality within marriage & protection from discrim. in workplace
109
47
by 1929 agricultural production only at ... pre-war levels
79%
48
German National Party (DNVP) still ... largest party in Reichstag by 1928 with ... seats
2nd
73
49
although Communists (KPD) lost support in 1920s still ... largest party in Reichstag by 1928 with ... seats
4th
54
50
in 1929 ... middle-class workers seeking work
180,000
51
1919-20 H. = main speaker at ... out of ... party meetings
31
46
52
NSDAP only ... members in Sep 1919, by Sep 1920 ... members
23
3,000
53
SA numbered ... by Aug 1922 & by Nov 1923 this had risen to ...
~800
55,000
54
by 1923 NSDAP had ... members
over 50,000
55
(Munich Putsch) H. & ... supporters marched to centre of Munich & within moments .. of supporters shot dead
1,000
14
56
(Munich Putsch) H. & other leaders found guilty of treason & sentenced to ... in Landsberg prison > H. released after only ...
5 years
9 months
57
in 1929 G. industrial output fell by ... , in 1931 fell by ...
10%
40%
58
Jan 1933 ... unemp. in G. > included ... all factory workers & ... university graduates
6.1 million
40%
60%
59
(WSC) estimated ... unemp. received no benefit at all
27%
60
by 1932 wages = ... of 1928 levels
70%
61
(WSC) increase of ... in arrests for theft in Berlin
24%
62
(WSC) whereas Reichstag met ... times in 1930 only ... times in 1932
94
13
63
had been only ... presidential decrees in 1930, by 1932 Bruning had issued ...
5
66
64
by July 1932 NSDAP had become largest party in Reichstag with ... seats
230
65
whereas ... voters supported KPD in 1928 Reichstag elections ... voters supported in 1932 (extra ... voters) > KPD gained ... seats in July Reichstag elections
10%
15%
million
89
66
by 1932 Red Front Fighters (KPD) numbered ... however SA numbered ...
over 130,000
well over 400,000
67
by early 1930s NSDAP owned ... daily or weekly newspapers > regularly read by ... people
120
hundreds of thousands
68
1930 elections NSDAP gained ... vote in some rural areas
60%
69
general elections of 1930 Nazi Party won ... seats in Reichstag, only small proportion of ... seats available with ... of votes
107
577
18%
70
presidential election Apr 1932 Hindenburg = ...
84
71
presidential election Apr 1932 Hindenburg = ... votes (...)
H. = ... votes (...)
Thalmann (KPD) = ... votes (...)
19 million, 53%
13 million, 36%
4 million, 11%
72
July 1932 Reichstag elections violence in streets (particularly communists & SA) killed ... people > NSDAP won ... seats, Nazi share of vote had risen from ... in 1930 to ... in 1932
~100
230
18%
38%
73
night of Reichstag Fire H. ordered arrest of ... communists
4,000
74
Mar 1933 election Nazis increased Reichstag members to ... seats > H. used emergency powers to ban Comm. Party taking its ... seats > entered coalition with DNVP to have overall majority ...
288
81
51%
75
Enabling Act (Mar 1933) passed ... votes to ...
444
94
76
Nov 1933 elections ... of pop. voted for NSDAP & they won ... votes
95.2%
over 39 million
77
(Night of Long Knives) SA numbers = ... & by 1930 ... of SA unemp.
3 million
60%
78
(Night of Long Knives) H. arranged meeting with Rohm & ... other SA leaders
100
79
public vote in Aug 1934 to confirm H. as Fuhrer = ... voted in favour
90%
80
SS set up in 1925 as personal bodyguard for H. with ... members
240
81
during 1930s SS expanded to ... men
240,000
82
1939 alone ... arrested for political offences
160,000
83
never more than ... Gestapo in pop. of ...
30,000
80 million
84
... all (Gestapo) arrests made following info. from informant
over 80%
85
by 1939 ... people 'under protective arrest' in prisons
150,000
86
1934-39 ... people sentenced to death for political offences
534
87
1935 alone ... newspapers = shut down
over 1,600
88
by 1944 Prop. Ministry fully owned ... of all media being published in G.
82%
89
by 1939 ... of G. homes owned radio
70%
90
1934 Nuremburg rally involved ... people
over 700,000
91
(Chamber of Culture) in total ... writers = officially banned
2,500
92
1933 Goebbels organised 'Book Burning' > ... books burned in one night alone
over 20,000
93
Chamber of Visual Arts = only ... painters & sculptors accepted
42,000
94
1936 ... paintings & sculptures = removed from galleries by SS
over 12,000
95
cinema regularly attracted ... viewers a week
over 250 million
96
... films made by NSDAP
1,300
97
(Berlin Olympics 1936) new Olympic Stadium built to hold ... people
110,000
98
SS = by 1939 ... members
over 250,000
99
after assassination of Cologne Gestapo Chief ... young people hanged in Nov 1944
13
100
... Protestant pastors & ... Catholic priests sent to conc. camps
800
400
101
in 1939 ... people imprisoned (in conc. camps?)
~160,000
102
by 1939 Edelweiss Pirate membership = ... compared to Hitler Youth membership of ...
~2,000
8 million
103
(Kristallnacht) official figures (which underestimate) listed ... shops, ... homes & ... synagogues destroyed
814
171
191
104
(Kristallnacht) ... Jews killed & after violence of Kristallnacht ... Jewish 'trouble-makers' rounded up & sent to conc. camps
over 100
20,000
105
by 1938 ... homosexuals had been imprisoned & ... died in conc. camps
8,000
~5,000
106
(T4 programme) ... children killed
over 5,000
107
by 1938 ... boys being trained in small arms shooting
1.2 million
108
... teachers attended political education courses by 1939
200,000
109
G. Women's Enterprise eventually had ... members
6 million
110
by 1939 ... women had attended courses on childcare, cooking & sewing
1.7 million
111
birth rate in G. had fallen to only ... births per year by 1933
1 million
112
Law for the Encouragement of Marriage made 'marriage loans' of ... available to women who gave up work to marry > ... of loan cancelled for every child
1000 marks
1/4
113
by end of 1934 ... women had given up work to get married
~360,000
114
Mother's Cross (num children) gold = ...
silver = ...
bronze = ...
8
6
4
115
overall birth rate increased from ... births per 1000 marriages in 1933 to ... in 1937
14.7
19.6
116
... women gave birth in Lebensborn houses 1938-41
540
117
during election campaign in 1932 H. promised he would take ... women out of employment within ...
800,000
4 years
118
Law for the Reduction of Unemployment prevented women from working past age of ...
35
119
num. female students entering higher education fell from ... in 1932 to ... in 1939
17,000
6,000
120
Sep 1933 Nazis launched 'autobahn' project to build ... network of dual-carriageway roads
7,000 mile
121
by 1935 autobahn project employed ... men & by 1938 had built ...
125,000
over 2,000 miles
122
by 1939 ... men in G. armed forces
over 1.3 million
123
by 1939 gov. spent ... a year on rearmament
26bn marks
124
by 1935 num. people employed in aviation had grown to ...
72,000
125
in 1938 Nazis spent ... on public works
37bn marks
126
by 1936 KDF had ... members & in 1938 ... workers took KDF holidays
over 35 million
10 million
127
by 1938 SDA claimed ... companies had improved facilities
34,000
128
... people employed in RAD by 1935
~400,000
129
from 1935 compulsory for all young men below age of ... to serve for ... in RAD
25
6 months
130
avg. wages increased from ... per week in 1933 to ... in 1939
86 marks
109 marks
131
avg. working hours in industry increased from ... hours per week in 1933 to ... hours in 1939
42
49
132
(1933-39) food prices rose by ...
20%
133
unemp. men forced to join RAD
~1/2 million
134
people put into conc. camps
100s of 1000s
