Module 2 - Germany

Question 1

What were the 5 weimar party’s?

Answer 1

Nazi Party
Social Democratic Party
National people party
Communist party
German democratic party

Question 2

What was the weimar constitution?

Answer 2

A bill of rights guaranteed every German citizen freedom of speech and religion and equality

Question 3

What was the reichstag?

Answer 3

Group that made laws, appointed government which would follow orders from reichstag

Question 4

What was proportional representation?

Answer 4

Very democratic
Number of votes directly relate to number of seats

Question 5

Give basic info on left wing uprisings?

Answer 5

Communist manifesto - KARL MARK AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS
Rosa Luxemburg
KPD back by Soviet Union
They had a share in the reichstag
Ebert sacks chief of police as spark to the friekorps

Question 6

Give basic info on right wing uprisings?

Answer 6

Kapp Putsch - 5000 friekorps march on Berlin
Army mutiny to fight the friekorps
Ebert flees but uses passive resistance
Kapp put in prison and dies
Ebert returns to berlin

Question 7

What was article 48?

Answer 7

Special emergency law

Question 8

When was hyperinflation?

Answer 8

1923 LOW POINT OF WEIMAR
REPERATIONS 132 MARKS

Question 9

Cycle of hyperinflation/

Answer 9

War loans - German reparations - occupation of the Ruhr - hyperinflation - impact on Germany

Question 10

How did hyperinflation occur?

Answer 10

Printing money meant decrease in value and gold reserves were already spent and industrial area the rush had been occupied by French and Belgian troops

Question 11

Who were the November criminals and name one?

Answer 11

Being a traitor by signing armistice - Erzberger

Question 12

What was the red rising in the Ruhr?

Answer 12

Free corps dealt with those on strike in the Ruhr

Question 13

Hitler and the Munich putsch year?

Answer 13

1923

Question 14

Key components of streseman era?

Answer 14

Cumpolsary unemployment covering 17 million workers
37000 new homes built
Factories with US loans constructed
“Papering over cracks’ relying on Dawes plan
US are there reliability

Question 15

What was the Dawes plan?

Answer 15

Dawes - Meeting with American vice president - arranged for use to lend money to Germany 800 million - Germany start reparation payments

Question 16

Young plan?

Answer 16

Negotiations with the French - reparations reduced from 6.6 to 1.8 - given longer to pay - helped short term

Question 17

What was the rentenmark?

Answer 17

New currency that’s temporary stopping printing of old money - 1924 1924 replaced by reichsmark which was stable which remained for 25 years

Question 18

What was the League of Nations?

Answer 18

1926 - Germany joined to keep peace - agreed to never go to war unless to defend themselves - Kellogg-Briand

Question 19

What was the disarmament extent?

Answer 19

1923 - talks had failed - Germany demanded as many weapons as all other countries and this was to protect themselves apparent

Question 20

What were the Locarno pacts?

Answer 20

1925 - Signed - along with Britain France Belgium and Italy a promise that would ensure they wouldn’t invade each other

Question 21

What was the policy of fulfilment?

Answer 21

Streseman followed this policy for himself aimed to improve international relations and attempting to fufill terms of TOV

Question 22

Affect of WSC?

Answer 22

US call in loans and demand falls industry collapsing resulting in depression - SPIRAL EFFECT - WSC - Loans - Unemployment - Low spend - No demand

Question 23

What did WSC offer to Hitler?

Answer 23

New solutions - extremist parties

Question 24

Timer period of nazi party?

Answer 24

1924-29
Persuasion
Propaganda
Volkswagen scheme

Question 25

What were the lean years?

Answer 25

DEC 1924 - Reogranised party to authoritative leader and the SA reduced power - Bamberg conference 1926 didn't want to look communist going after the rich

Question 26

Lead up to hitler becoming chancellor?

Answer 26

Bruning - von papen - barons - Schleicher - hitler

Question 27

Hitlers votes?

Answer 27

Women - Old soldiers - countryside - middle class - upper class

Question 28

Hitler dictatorship?

Answer 28

Reichstag fire March 1933 election Enabling acts Death of Hindenburg - ' Der fuhrer'

Question 29

Night of long knives?

Answer 29

June 1934 - meeting with sa leaders - open about murders with media to warn others not to stand against him and he had full power across Germany

Question 30

What did hitler promise?

Answer 30

Work and bread and mother and child aryan ideology

Question 31

What was invisible unemployment?

Answer 31

Jews, disabled, part time workers all not included in stats DISPOSABLE INCOME COMES WITH ECONOMIC BENEFITS

Question 32

What were Keynesian egos?

Answer 32

National labour service Rearmament Conscription Keynesian economics - gov investment = private investment 'spades with hands'

Question 33

Figures or rearmament?

Answer 33

100000-1.4 MILLION

Question 34

Butter or guns who vs who?

Answer 34

Hjalmar schacht - 1933 economic minster - German supply's to slow so was sacked by hitler - HERMANN GOERING - 1936 introduced 4 year plan to get ready for war targets not met and were unprotected

Question 35

What were 3 controlling schemes?

Answer 35

DAF - VOLKSWAGEN SDA IMPROVE WORKING ENVIRON KDF - LEISURE

Question 36

Hitler youth

Answer 36

Social darwinism - indoctrination - lebensramn eugenics napolas - ideal nazi creation

Question 37

WW2 IMPACT?

Answer 37

SEVERE LABOUR SHORTAGES + REFUGEES - BOMBING 1942 THOUSANDS OF DEATHS

Question 38

Women in nazi Germany/

Answer 38

Maternal feeding mother and child key roles Rewarded women to produce children q

Question 39

Christianity and nazis?

Answer 39

Catholicism - didn't listen to hitler Protestants - swastika on chest and confessional church = niemoller was killed

Question 40

Nazi ideas and racial policy?

Answer 40

Undesirables - Jews - Slavs - Gays Persecution - superior of aryan race

Question 41

Resistance to final solution around 1934 start?

Answer 41

Warsaw Ghetto Trebelinka death camp Happened rarely and nazis always regained control

Question 42

Final solution journey?

Answer 42

Jews banned from public places Races studies - 1934 1935 - NUREMBERG LAWS - banned voting and marriage of jews and non jews - pure race 1936 - jews no electrics 1938 - KRISTALLNACHT - Israel and Sara names and NIGH OF BROKEN GLASS 1939 - eviction of jews 1941 - execution squads being sent out and a plan to exterminate

Question 43

Heinrich himmler?

Answer 43

He controlled and led the police state

Question 44

What was the police state?

Answer 44

Institutions - a community - country that is under control, controlled through FEAR

Question 45

What were the gestapo?

Answer 45

Were the secret police and didn't wear uniform

Question 46

Who and when ss?

Answer 46

Set up in 1925 - originally hitlers bodyguards divided into 3 sections

Question 47

Resistance?

Answer 47

General dislike and meaning about Nazis White Rose Edelweiss pirates

Question 48

Who was the leader?

Answer 48

Joseph goebbels - joined nazi party in 1924 - radios - television