Last Minute Revision

Question 1

Hindenburg elected

Answer 1

1925, 1932

Question 2

Brüning chancellor

Answer 2

1930-32

Question 3

Nazis gain largest ever vote but still no majority…

Answer 3

July 1932, 230 seats.

Question 4

Brüning bans the SA

Answer 4

April 1932

Question 5

Brüning resigns

Answer 5

May 1932

Question 6

Schleicher persuades Hindenburg to make him chancellor due to Papen trying to make new rules

Answer 6

November 1932

Question 7

Reichstag fire

Answer 7

February 1933

Question 8

Law of the Protection of the People and the State

Answer 8

February 1933

Question 9

Enabling Act

Answer 9

March 1933

Question 10

Hitler becomes chancellor

Answer 10

January 1933

Question 11

Papen ‘buys’ Nazi support

Answer 11

January 1933

Question 12

Hitler wins a majority vote

Answer 12

March 1933

Question 13

Hitler becomes Führer when Hindenburg dies in office

Answer 13

August 1934

Question 14

Night of the Long Knives

Answer 14

June 1934

Question 15

von Galen spoke out against the Nazi’s euthanasia program and stopped it

Answer 15

1941

Question 16

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Who was he, what did he do, what happened to him

Answer 16

Member of the Confessing Church, he worked with anti-Nazi resistance. He was arrested in 1943 and died in a concentration camp in 1945.

Question 17

Who was Martin Niemöller and what happened to him?

Answer 17

He was the leader of the Confessing Church and was anti-Nazi. He was sent to a concentration camp.

Question 18

Execution of the leaders of the White Rose movement

Answer 18

February 1943

Question 19

Execution of some of the leaders of the Edelweiss Pirates in Düsseldorf

Answer 19

1942

Question 20

Who were the “Beck-Goerdeler Group”?

Answer 20

A violent group who by 1942 decided Hitler needed to be removed. They were responsible for the July Bomb Plot.

Question 21

Stauffenberg July Bomb Plot

Answer 21

20th July 1944

Question 22

Interest-free loans introduced for women wishing to get married and leave work

Answer 22

June 1933

Question 23

Married women were banned from top jobs as professionals (doctors, lawyers & civil servants)

Answer 23

1933-36

Question 24

Nazis made abortion illegal

Answer 24

1933

Question 25

Jewish women not allowed to marry Aryan men

Answer 25

1935

Question 26

What was the Lebensborn?

Answer 26

The "Spring of life" where the SS brought up illegitimate or orphaned racially-sound children.

Question 27

Concordat between the Nazis and the Pope

Answer 27

July 1933

Question 28

When and who was the first bishop of the Reich Church?

Answer 28

September 1933, Ludwig Müller

Question 29

Date Confessing Church was started by Neimöller

Answer 29

October 1934

Question 30

Average working week length increased from __ to __ between __ and __

Answer 30

From 43hrs to 47hrs between 1933 and 1939.

Question 31

By __ there were _% fewer women in work.

Answer 31

By 1937 there were 6% fewer women in work.

Question 32

Locarno Pact: Date, what was it & what did it allow

Answer 32

1925, pact between Germany and France and Belgium so they did not invade each other. This allowed Germany to join the League of Nations in 1926.

Question 33

What was the Rapollo agreement and when was it agreed?

Answer 33

In 1922, Germany did a deal with the eastern borders of Russia. This boosted the economy of Germany, however it upset some right-wing Germans who disliked Communist Russia.

Question 34

Sparticists Rising

Answer 34

January 1919

Question 35

Kapp Putsch

Answer 35

March 1920

Question 36

Red Ruhr Rising

Answer 36

March 1920

Question 37

Munich Putsch

Answer 37

November 1923

Question 38

SR Purpose

Answer 38

Start a chain reaction to take over Germany, similar to that of Russia by initiating a general strike and they started a revolution in Berlin.

Question 39

KP Purpose

Answer 39

To overthrow the Weimar government.

Question 40

RRR Purpose

Answer 40

Communists wanted a revolution and workers wanted better conditions and wages - 50,000 workers took over factories and raw material supplies.