Nazi Germany (WIP)

Question 1

What was the post world war one government in Germany called?

Answer 1

The Weimar republic

Question 2

What is a constitution?

Answer 2

A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organisation is governed.

Question 3

Who was at the top of the Weimar hierarchy?

Answer 3

The president

Question 4

Who was the chancellor?

Answer 4

Someone appointed from the Reichstag by the president (had to be approved by the Reichstag)

Question 5

What was the Reichstag?

Answer 5

The government and parliament equivelant

Question 6

What was proportional voting?

Answer 6

Where everyones vote counted proportionally for seats in the Reichstag

Question 7

What was article 48?

Answer 7

Emergency powers that allow the president to make laws without going through the Reichstag

Question 8

When was the Weimar constitution approved by the national assembly?

Answer 8

July 1919

Question 9

What was a key weakness of the Weimar constitution?

Answer 9

Article 48

Question 10

What was the stab in the back myth?

Answer 10

The german people felt that they had been stabbed in the back by the new government as they had signed the armistice and given in to other countries

Question 11

When was the treaty of Versailles signed?

Answer 11

June 1919

Question 12

What major political figures were present?

Answer 12

Lloyd George (UK PM)
Woodrow Wilson (USA Pres)
Georges Clemenceau (France PM)

Question 13

What were the main political threats to the Weimar republic?

Answer 13

Communists (Far left)
Social democrats (centre-left)
Nationalists (right/far right)

Question 14

What was the Spartacist uprising?

Answer 14

A communist uprising

Question 15

When was the spartacist uprising?

Answer 15

1919

Question 16

How many were involved in the spartacist uprising?

Answer 16

5,000

Question 17

What stopped the spartacist uprising seizing power?

Answer 17

Being crushed by the Freikorps and their leaders being killed (Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg)

Question 18

What was the red rising?

Answer 18

A communist uprising

Question 19

When was the red rising?

Answer 19

1920

Question 20

How many were involved in the red rising?

Answer 20

50,000

Question 21

What did the spartacist uprising achieve?

Answer 21

Control of the media

Question 22

What stopped the red rising seizing power?

Answer 22

Being crushed by the Freikorps

Question 23

What did the red rising achieve?

Answer 23

control of the Ruhr valley (industrial heartland)

Question 24

What was the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 24

A Freikorp uprising (Freikorp had been disbanded and they were not happy)

Question 25

When was the Kapp putsch?

Answer 25

1920

Question 26

How many were involved in the kapp putsch?

Answer 26

12,000

Question 27

What did the kapp putsch achieve?

Answer 27

control of the government

Question 28

Why did the kapp establishment lose power?

Answer 28

no support from the people, government ordered a general strike and crippled kapp establishment

Question 29

What happened as a result of Kapp losing power?

Answer 29

Wolfgang kapp and other high rankers fled after 4 days

Question 30

What was the Munich putsch?

Answer 30

Nazi+Hitler+Ludendorf led uprising

Question 31

Who was Ludendorf?

Answer 31

German WW1 hero, a puppet face of the uprising

Question 32

How many were involved in the munich putsch?

Answer 32

55,000 + private nazi army-SA

Question 33

What did the munich putsch do to attempt to gain power?

Answer 33

Burst in on officials and forced (need name) to pledge loyalty to nazis

Question 34

What stopped the Nazis seizing power?

Answer 34

Hitler fled | (need name) turned on the nazis and didn't stay faithful

Question 35

What happened to Hitler as a result of the Putsch?

Answer 35

Sentenced to 5 years in prison

Question 36

how long did hitler serve in prison?

Answer 36

9 months

Question 37

What did hitler do whilst he was in prison?

Answer 37

Wrote his book, Mein Kampf.

Question 38

What does Mein Kampf mean?

Answer 38

My struggle

Question 39

What did hitler talk about in his book?

Answer 39

not a lot really, it was simply a massive rant with some anti semitism thrown in.

Question 40

Who was Gustav Streseman?

Answer 40

The saviour of of post WW1 germany

Question 41

What did Stresemann do for Germany?

Answer 41

``` Dawes Plan New currency Young plan Locarno Pact League of Nations ```

Question 42

What was the Wall Street Crash

Answer 42

October 1929, share prices began to fall on the Wall Street Stock exchange. This meant that stock brokers lost their money.

Question 43

What was the cause of the Wall Street Crash

Answer 43

Minor fluctuation on stock prices, worried about losing their money Stock brokers rushed to sell their shares before the value fell any further. The Panic selling made things worse and sent prices even lower.

Question 44

What was Black Thursday

Answer 44

24 October 1929, was when 13 million shares were sold

Question 45

What effects did the Wall Street have on Germany

Answer 45

- 40% of all factory workers (social) - The government cut unemployment benefit to savemoney (Economic) - The Weimar Government was proven to be too weak to deal with a crisis (Political) - Loans were recalled from U.S

Question 46

What was the Dawes plan?

Answer 46

Extended the time to pay back raparations, lowered reparations and loans from US

Question 47

What was the new currency?

Answer 47

The Rentenmark

Question 48

What was the Young plan?

Answer 48

Even more time to pay back money ($$$$$)

Question 49

What was the Locarno pact?

Answer 49

A bunch of treaties recognising borders in European countries

Question 50

What does Germany joining the LON symbolise?

Answer 50

They've come off the naughty step and can now play with the other big countries

Question 51

When was the Dawes plan introduced?

Answer 51

1924

Question 52

When was the Rentenmark introduced?

Answer 52

1923

Question 53

When did Germany Sign the Locarno pact?

Answer 53

1925

Question 54

When did Germany join the LON?

Answer 54

1926