Unit 5

Question 1

When did the Reichstag accept the Dawes plan?

Answer 1

August 1924

Question 2

When did president ebert die?

Answer 2

February 1925

Question 3

When was Hindenburg elected as president?

Answer 3

April 1925

Question 4

How many people supported pro Weimar parties by the 1928 election?

Answer 4

76%

Question 5

When was the grand coalition created?

Answer 5

1928, was a coalition of the left right and centre, commanded a secure majority

Question 6

Why did luthers administration collapse in 1926?

Answer 6

Disagreements over the appearance of the German flag

Question 7

How many governments were there between 1923-1929?

Answer 7

7

Question 8

Who was Hindenburg hostile about working with before 1928?

Answer 8

The SPD

Question 9

When did production finally equal that of 1913?

Answer 9

1928

Question 10

How much higher was national income in 1928 than 1913?

Answer 10

12%

Question 11

Which German company became the largest chemicals manufacturer in Europe during the golden years?

Answer 11

IG Farben

Question 12

What rose by 40% between 1925 and 1929?

Answer 12

Exports

Question 13

How much did the international community loan Germany between 1924 and 1930?

Answer 13

25.5 million marks

Question 14

What rose every year between 1924 and 1930?

Answer 14

Wages

Question 15

When did agriculture begin to go in to a recession?

Answer 15

1927

Question 16

What did a dependence on American loans mean for Germany?

Answer 16

They were vulnerable to us economic problems

Question 17

When did France and Belgium leave the Ruhr?

Answer 17

1925

Question 18

What policy did stressemann pursue when trying to pay reparations?

Answer 18

A policy of fulfilment

Question 19

When was the Dawes plan?

Answer 19

1924

Question 20

When was the young plan?

Answer 20

1929

Question 21

When was Germany admitted to the League of Nations?

Answer 21

1926

Question 22

Which borders did stressemann agree to as part of the 1925 Locarno pact?

Answer 22

Post war borders with France

Question 23

What did the young payment do?

Answer 23

Increased the repayment term to 59 years, which reduced annual payments

Question 24

Who opposed the Young plan?

Answer 24

The nationalist right

Question 25

How many people supported the right wing coalition in the young plan referendum?

Answer 25

13.9%

Question 26

What did the cultural changes cause German people to associate with the Weimar system?

Answer 26

Decadence and experimentation

Question 27

Where did gay life flourish in the 1920s?

Answer 27

Berlin

Question 28

Who produced works reflecting on the impact of the First World War and the satirisation of the junker class?

Answer 28

George Grosz and Otto Dix

Question 29

What architectural movement flourished during the 1920s?

Answer 29

The Bauhaus movement

Question 30

How many state employees were sacked under Stresemann?

Answer 30

700,000

Question 31

What was the main problem with the Dawes plan?

Answer 31

It involved Germany accepting that it would have to continue to pay reparations

Question 32

Why did the SPD resist becoming involved in forming coalition governments between 1924 and June 1928?

Answer 32

They believed working with the bourgeois parties would lead to a compromise of the parties ideals

Question 33

How many votes did Hindenburg win in the 1925 election

Answer 33

14.6 million

Question 34

Which party did Hindenburg work hard to exclude from coalitions?

Answer 34

The SPD

Question 35

What did Hindenburg block from passing in 1926?

Answer 35

A draft law which would define the use of article 48

Question 36

Why did Hindenburg block the law defining article 48?

Answer 36

He thought the presidents powers should be unrestrained, he did not believe in democracy

Question 37

When was the lambach article published?

Answer 37

1928, urged DNVP to accept the republic and move on from monarchism

Question 38

What did the lambach article cause?

Answer 38

The DNVP to move to the right

Question 39

When did the French promise to evacuate the Rhineland?

Answer 39

June 1930, five years ahead of schedule

Question 40

What article of the constitution made it possible to petition for referendum?

Answer 40

Article 73

Question 41

How many people were unemployed by 1927?

Answer 41

1.3 million

Question 42

How many people were unemployed by 1929?

Answer 42

3.6 million

Question 43

When was the collapse in food prices?

Answer 43

1922

Question 44

How many workers did the ironworks owners lock out in the Ruhr in 1928?

Answer 44

210,000

Question 45

When were the reich relief law and the serious disabilities laws published?

Answer 45

1920

Question 46

When did the labour exchanges and unemployment insurance law pass?

Answer 46

1927

Question 47

When did the state spend 33 times more on public housing than it did in 1913?

Answer 47

1929

Question 48

What did the number of deaths by typhus per 10,000 fall to by the late 1920's?

Answer 48

1913=143 | 1928=87

Question 49

What did the reich youth law of 1922 claim?

Answer 49

All children were entitled to a decent upbringing

Question 50

What did the 1926 treaty of Berlin secure?

Answer 50

Good relations between Russia and Germany, both agreed neutrality in the event of attack by a third power

Question 51

When did the allies withdraw the Inter Allied military control commission which had been set up to oversee German disarmament?

Answer 51

January 1927

Question 52

What was an economic benefit to the improved international relations?

Answer 52

A commercial treaty was signed between France and Germany in August 1927