20th Century Unit 1: Dates

Question 1

First Democratic elections in Germany

Answer 1

1919 - January 19

Question 2

Versailles Treaty signed

Answer 2

1919 - June 28

Question 3

Kapp Putsch

Answer 3

1920 - March

Question 4

Reparations set at 6.6 billion pounds

Answer 4

1920 - April - June

Question 5

Occupation of the Ruhr

Answer 5

1923 - January 23

Question 6

Munich Putsch / Beer Hall Putsch

Answer 6

1923 - November 8/9

Question 7

Hyperinflation

Answer 7

1923 - 1924

Question 8

Rentenmark. (Economy begins to balance again)

Answer 8

1923 - November 15

Question 9

Sparticist uprising in Berlin

Answer 9

1919 - 5 January

Question 10

Dawes plan ratified

Answer 10

1924 - August

Question 11

Hindenburg elected president

Answer 11

1925 - Febuary

Question 12

Germany joins League of Nations

Answer 12

1926

Question 13

Reichstag election - NAZIs achieve 2.6% of the national vote

Answer 13

1928 - May 20

Question 14

Young plan - Reparations reduced

Answer 14

1929 - June 7

Question 15

Wall Street Crash

Answer 15

1929 - October

Question 16

Nazi Party gains 18.3% of votes - Become second largest party

Answer 16

1930 - September 14

Question 17

Nazi party gains 37.8% of vote - Becomes largest party

Answer 17

1932 - July 31

Question 18

Reichstag election - Nazis lose 2 million votes

Answer 18

1932 - November 6

Question 19

Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor

Answer 19

1933 - January 30

Question 20

Reichstag fire

Answer 20

1933 - February 27-28

Question 21

Adoption of enabling act

Answer 21

1933 - March

Question 22

National boycott of jewish businesses

Answer 22

1933 - April 1

Question 23

Formation of Gestapo (Secret Police)

Answer 23

1933 - 26 April

Question 24

Reichstag elections - Nazis gain 93% of votes

Answer 24

1933 - November 12

Question 25

Night of the Long Knives

Answer 25

1934 - June 30

Question 26

Death of president Hindenburg - Hitler declares himself Fuhrer of Germany

Answer 26

1934 - August 2

Question 27

Plebiscite on Hitler’s power: 89.93% say yes

Answer 27

1934 - August 19

Question 28

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 28

1935 - September 15

Question 29

German troops sent into demilitarised Rhineland

Answer 29

1936 - March 7

Question 30

The Anschluss signed

Answer 30

1938 - March 12

Question 31

Hitler declares end of Versailles treaty

Answer 31

1937 - September 7

Question 32

Munich Agreement

Answer 32

1938 - September 30

Question 33

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

Answer 33

1938 - November 9

Question 34

Expulsion of all jewish students from German schools

Answer 34

1938 - November 15

Question 35

German invasion of Poland - Start of WW2

Answer 35

1939 - September 1