KQ3 key dates and statistics

Question 1

Wall Street Crash

Answer 1

29th October 1929

Question 2

How much did exports fall between 1929 and 1932?

Answer 2

61%

Question 3

How much did industrial production fall of the 1928 level?

Answer 3

58%

Question 4

Government closed banks and stock exchange for breathing space following the collapse of an Austrian bank

Answer 4

July 1931

Question 5

By 1932, what fraction of German workers were unemployed?

Answer 5

1/3

Question 6

In 1928, then 1933, how many were estimated to be unemployed?

Answer 6

1 million
8 million

Question 7

In Brand-Erbisdorf, what % of the population were receiving welfare benefits?

Answer 7

50%

Question 8

How many married women did the Reich Postal Service dismiss from employment?

Answer 8

1000

Question 9

In Hamburg, what were youth unemployment rates for males and females?

Answer 9

M= 39%
F= 25%

Question 10

Law allowing married women civil servants to be dismissed

Answer 10

1932

Question 11

Collapse of the Grand Coalition

Answer 11

March 1930

Question 12

Bruning dissolved the Reichstag and called an election

Answer 12

September 1930

Question 13

What fraction of voters supported anti-Democratic parties?

Answer 13

2/3

Question 14

In the September 1930 elections, how much did Nazi votes rise?

Answer 14

From 810,000 to 6.5 million

Question 15

Brunings decree banning political uniforms

Answer 15

December 1931

Question 16

In a rural NW district, what % of the vote did Nazis win in the 1930 vote?

Answer 16

68%

Question 17

In the 2nd ballot of the 1930 vote, what % of the vote did Hindenburg and Hitler win?

Answer 17

Hindenburg= 53%
Hitler= 37%

Question 18

In the 1930 election, what % of Nazi voters were unemployed?

Answer 18

27%

Question 19

How much did the Nazis increase their electoral support by between 1930 and 1932?

Answer 19

Doubled

Question 20

In the 1928-July 1932 elections, how many votes did the communists gain?

Answer 20

2 million

Question 21

What did communist membership change from in 1929 to 1932?

Answer 21

1929= 117,000
1932= 360,000

Question 22

What % of communist members leave within a few months in 1932?

Answer 22

Over 50%

Question 23

When did Hitler become chancellor?

Answer 23

30th January 1933

Question 24

In the Sept 1930 election, how many seats did the KPD and Nazis win?

Answer 24

Nazis= 107
KPD= 77

Question 25

How much did frightened foreigners withdraw of investment funds after the Sept 1930 election?

Answer 25

800 million marks

Question 26

In April 1932, what % of the vote did the Nazis win?

Answer 26

37%

Question 27

When did Bruning ban the SA to reduce street violence?

Answer 27

April 1932

Question 28

When was the SA ban lifted by Papen?

Answer 28

June 1932

Question 29

When did Hindenburg dismiss Bruning after he proposed to break up bankrupt Prussian states?

Answer 29

May 1932

Question 30

Large scale SA march confronted by several hundred communists?

Answer 30

17th July 1932

Question 31

How many seats did the DVP, DDP, DNVP, SPD, KPD and Nazis win in the July 1932 election?

Answer 31

DVP= 7 DDP= 4 DNVP= 37 SPD= 133 KPD= 89 Nazis= 230 (37.3%)

Question 32

In September 1932, what ratio of votes went to Papen?

Answer 32

42:512

Question 33

Schleicher persuaded Hindenburg to dismiss Papen and make him chancellor

Answer 33

December 1932

Question 34

Otto purged from the Nazi party

Answer 34

1930

Question 35

Strasser purged from the Nazi party

Answer 35

1932

Question 36

Backstairs Intrigue

Answer 36

Jan 1933

Question 37

How many /12 ministers in Hitler's cabinet were Nazis?

Answer 37

3/12

Question 38

On the evening when Hitler became chancellor, how many Nazis carried out a torchlight procession when Hitler stood on the Reich Chancellery balcony?

Answer 38

100,000

Question 39

How much did the SA membership grow in Jan 1933 to Jan 1934?

Answer 39

1933= 500,000 1934= 3 million

Question 40

SA and Stahlehm merged and became the "auxiliary police"

Answer 40

Late Feb 1933

Question 41

Young Nazi shot dead the SPD mayor of a small town in Prussia

Answer 41

5th February 1933

Question 42

How many prisoners could the first concentration camp, Dachau, accommodate?

Answer 42

5000

Question 43

By July 1933, how many political prisoners had been arrested by SA or taken into "protective custody" and how many camps were there?

Answer 43

26,789 70 camps

Question 44

Reichstag Fire

Answer 44

27th February 1933

Question 45

The Decree for the Protection of the People and the State

Answer 45

28th February 1933

Question 46

How many communists were arrested in two weeks of The Decree for the Protection of the People and the State?

Answer 46

10,000

Question 47

Enabling Act

Answer 47

24th March 1933

Question 48

In the March 1933 election, how many seats did the Nazis win and what % of the vote?

Answer 48

288 43.9%

Question 49

How much did Hitler secure from leading industrialists for the Nazi election campaign?

Answer 49

3 million Reichsmarks

Question 50

By what majority was the Enabling Act passed?

Answer 50

441/94