Weimar and Nazi Germany 1919-1939

Question 1

What year did the Weimar Republic begin?

Answer 1

1919

Question 2

What was the main political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic?

Answer 2

The Social Democratic Party (SPD)

Question 3

True or False: The Weimar Constitution established a parliamentary democracy.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What major event in 1923 severely affected the Weimar Republic’s economy?

Answer 4

Hyperinflation

Question 5

Fill in the blank: The _____ Putsch was an attempted coup by the Nazi Party in 1923.

Answer 5

Beer Hall

Question 6

Who was the leader of the Nazi Party during the Weimar Republic?

Answer 6

Adolf Hitler

Question 7

What was the primary cause of the Great Depression in Germany?

Answer 7

The collapse of the American stock market in 1929

Question 8

What was the name of the paramilitary organization associated with the Nazi Party?

Answer 8

SA (Sturmabteilung or Storm Troopers)

Question 9

True or False: The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What was one major consequence of the Treaty of Versailles for Germany?

Answer 10

Germany lost territory and had to pay reparations.

Question 11

Who was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933?

Answer 11

Adolf Hitler

Question 12

What was the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 12

A fire at the German parliament building in February 1933 that the Nazis used as a pretext to consolidate power.

Question 13

Fill in the blank: The _____ Law of 1935 stripped Jews of German citizenship.

Answer 13

Nuremberg

Question 14

What was the significance of the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 14

It was a purge of the SA leadership and other political adversaries in 1934.

Question 15

True or False: The Nazi regime promoted a policy of anti-Semitism.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What was the purpose of the Gestapo?

Answer 16

To serve as the secret police of Nazi Germany.

Question 17

What was the Munich Agreement of 1938?

Answer 17

An agreement that allowed Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

Question 18

Who was the architect of the Nazi economic policies?

Answer 18

Hjalmar Schacht

Question 19

Fill in the blank: The Nazi regime aimed to create a _____ state based on racial purity.

Answer 19

Totalitarian

Question 20

What was the significance of the 1936 Berlin Olympics?

Answer 20

It was used by the Nazis to showcase their regime and promote Aryan supremacy.

Question 21

True or False: The Nazi Party gained power through democratic elections.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

What was the role of the Hitler Youth?

Answer 22

To indoctrinate German youth with Nazi ideology.

Question 23

What was the slogan of the Nazi Party?

Answer 23

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer (One People, One Empire, One Leader)

Question 24

Fill in the blank: The _____ Conference of 1938 was where Hitler demanded the Sudetenland.

Answer 24

Munich

Question 25

What was the impact of the 1939 invasion of Poland?

Answer 25

It marked the beginning of World War II.

Question 26

Who were the main targets of the Holocaust?

Answer 26

Jews, Romani people, disabled individuals, and political dissidents.

Question 27

What did the Enabling Act of 1933 allow Hitler to do?

Answer 27

It allowed him to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.

Question 28

True or False: The Nazi regime suppressed all forms of opposition.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

What was the Volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 29

The idea of a 'people's community' that emphasized national unity and racial purity.

Question 30

Fill in the blank: The _____ was the Nazi propaganda ministry led by Joseph Goebbels.

Answer 30

Ministry of Propaganda

Question 31

What was the primary goal of Nazi foreign policy?

Answer 31

To expand German territory and establish a Greater Germany.

Question 32

What was the purpose of the concentration camps?

Answer 32

To detain and eliminate political opponents and marginalized groups.

Question 33

Who was the main architect of the Holocaust?

Answer 33

Heinrich Himmler

Question 34

True or False: The Weimar Republic was known for its cultural achievements.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

What was the Dawes Plan?

Answer 35

A plan to restructure Germany's reparations payments and stabilize its economy.

Question 36

Fill in the blank: The _____ Pact was a non-aggression treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939.

Answer 36

Molotov-Ribbentrop

Question 37

What was the significance of Kristallnacht?

Answer 37

It marked a major escalation in anti-Jewish violence in November 1938.

Question 38

What was the role of the SS (Schutzstaffel)?

Answer 38

To serve as Hitler's personal bodyguard and later as a key instrument of terror.

Question 39

What was Lebensraum?

Answer 39

The Nazi policy of territorial expansion for the German people.

Question 40

True or False: Nazi Germany implemented a policy of rearmament in the 1930s.

Answer 40

True

Question 41

What was the impact of the 1933 Reichstag elections?

Answer 41

The Nazi Party became the largest party in the Reichstag.

Question 42

What was the main ideology of the Nazi Party?

Answer 42

Fascism combined with extreme nationalism and racism.

Question 43

Fill in the blank: The _____ was the Nazi secret police responsible for surveillance and arrest.

Answer 43

Gestapo

Question 44

Who was it that managed to secure an agreement between Germany an America, for America to provide reperation loans and what was his title?

Answer 44

Gustav Streseman, the foriegn secutary of state

Question 45

What was the name of the new currency introduced after the inflation crisis?

Answer 45

the rentenmark