Case Study - Weimar Republic - Knowledge Specific

Question 1

What is Germany called during WWI?

Answer 1

Second Reich

Question 2

Who is monarch in WWI of Germany?

Answer 2

Kaiser Wilhelmina II

Question 3

Who was in the triple entente?

Answer 3

Britain, France, Russia

Question 4

Who was in the central powers?

Answer 4

Germany + Austria Hungary + Ottoman Empire

Question 5

Did Italy stay on the same side in the war? Which side?

Answer 5

No - initially against Britain but then swapped

Question 6

How many soldiers and civilians died as a result of flu in 1918

Answer 6

500 000 civilians and 200 000 soldiers

Question 7

How did naval commanders lose control

Answer 7

when ordering an attack of the British blockade

Question 8

When were demonstrations made against the war?

Answer 8

1918 November?

Question 9

When did the kaiser order the rounding up of political opposition?

Answer 9

?

Question 10

When did the SPD gain in popularity?

Answer 10

?

Question 11

When did General Ludendorff tell the German government that Germany couldn’t win the war

Answer 11

October 1918

Question 12

What was one impact of the war on German economy

Answer 12

Halved milk production (lack of nutrients)

Question 13

How many workers demonstrated against the government demanding an end to the war in 1916?

Answer 13

10 000

Question 14

How many Germans are estimated to have died from starvation during the war?

Answer 14

3 million

Question 15

True or false: there were lots of power cuts as coal and electricity ran out during the war

Answer 15

True

Question 16

When did food start to run out in the war and why?

Answer 16

1915 - as German ships carrying food were destroyed by the British

Question 17

When was there a general strike in Berlin?

Answer 17

?

Question 18

How many died as a result of food shortages from the naval blockade in WWI?

Answer 18

750 000

Question 19

When was the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 19

August 1919

Question 20

What was Dolchstos theory?

Answer 20

Belief that the German people had been stabbed in the back by the government (as the government had surrendered)

Question 21

By what percentage did industrial production decrease during the war due to strikes?

Answer 21

40%

Question 22

When did the kaiser abdicate?

Answer 22

9/11/1918 (2 days before end of war)

Question 23

What town was the Weimar Republic named after?

Answer 23

Weimar - not the capital as Berlin was too dangerous due to public protest

Question 24

Where did the kaiser flee to?

Answer 24

Holland

Question 25

What was the first action of the new republic?

Answer 25

To sign the armistice

Question 26

What was the name of the communist party in the reichstag?

Answer 26

KPD (communists)

Question 27

What are two left of centre parties?

Answer 27

DDP + SDP (social democrats)

Question 28

What was the name of the centre party in the Reichstag?

Answer 28

ZP

Question 29

What was the right wing party called in the Reichstag?

Answer 29

DNVP (German nationalist people’s party)

Question 30

What was the far right/fascist party in the Reichstag?

Answer 30

NSDAP (Nazis)

Question 31

True or false: freidrich ebert along with the SPD was elected president

Answer 31

False - cause of resentment

Question 32

With whom did ebert make and agreement with to keep the communists out of power?

Answer 32

General groener of the army

Question 33

?? Ebert 6 liberal friends jobs?

Answer 33

?

Question 34

True or false: government employees who worked for the Kaiser lost their jobs

Answer 34

False - they kept them to keep things working - source of resentment perhaps

Question 35

When was the structure of the Weimar Republic finalised?

Answer 35

1919

Question 36

Who is the chancellor chosen by ?

Answer 36

President

Question 37

Who could vote - according to what article of the republic’s constitution

Answer 37

All men and women over 21

Question 38

What system of representation did the republic have?

Answer 38

Proportional representation

Question 39

Which organisation’s support did the chancellor have to have the support of?

Answer 39

Reichstag support

Question 40

How many members of the Reichstag were there in 1919

Answer 40

421

Question 41

How many members of the Reichstag were there by 1933

Answer 41

647

Question 42

After how many years is the Reichstag re elected?

Answer 42

Every 4 years

Question 43

Which is more important - the reichstrat or the Reichstag?

Answer 43

Reichstag

Question 44

Could the Reichstag make laws?

Answer 44

Yes

Question 45

After how many years was the president re elected?

Answer 45

Every 7 years

Question 46

Did the president have a role in the day to day running of parliament?

Answer 46

No

Question 47

What title did the president have in relation to the army?

Answer 47

Supreme commander

Question 48

True or false: the president could dismiss and call new elections

Answer 48

True

Question 49

Did the president have to have the support of the majority of the Reichstag?

Answer 49

Yes

Question 50

What did the Reichstrat do?

Answer 50

Approved laws - did not make them

Question 51

How many representatives were included in the Reichsrat?

Answer 51

55

Question 52

What did article 48 state?

Answer 52

President could suspend the constitution in an emergency(if public satiety and order is disturbed or endangered)

Question 53

What did article 54 state?

Answer 53

Reich chancellor and ministers must resign if the Reichstag withdraws its confidence

Question 54

What is an issue with PR?

Answer 54

Allows extremists in + makes governing slow

Question 55

When was armistice signed?

Answer 55

11th nov 1918

Question 56

What word describes how the Weimar Republic surrendered

Answer 56

Unconditionally - allies could impose any demands

Question 57

What is the name of the peace treaty which set the terms of peace after the war

Answer 57

Treaty of Versailles

Question 58

When was the treaty of Versailles signed?

Answer 58

28th June 1919

Question 59

Which people met to discuss terms of peace at the Paris peace conference?

Answer 59

Britain + France + USA + Italy

Question 60

What did Diktat mean?

Answer 60

Dictated peace - the idea that the German government didn’t have a say in the peace treaties and was treated harshly

Question 61

Give 3 areas which Germany lost as part of the land aspect of the treaty of Versailles? Who were they given to?

Answer 61

Alsace Lorraine (to France) + Danzig (freed) + Malmedy (Belgium)

Question 62

What was the polish corridor?

Answer 62

A strip of land cutting off east Prussia from the rest of Germany as part of the treaty of Versailles It was made in order to allow Poland access to the Baltic Sea (Germans could travel to the rest of Germany)

Question 63

What area was demilitarised as part of the TV

Answer 63

Rhineland

Question 64

What area of coalfields was given to France?

Answer 64

Saar coalfields to mine for 15 years

Question 65

What % of German coal production was lost when losing Saar coalfields to France as part of TofV

Answer 65

48%

Question 66

What % of German land was taken as part of the T of V?

Answer 66

13%

Question 67

True or false: all German colonies were given to France/the UK

Answer 67

True

Question 68

What number of men is the army limited under the T of V

Answer 68

100 000

Question 69

Was conscription banned under the T of V?

Answer 69

Yes

Question 70

What two pieces of military equipment were banned as part of T of V?

Answer 70

Tanks + artillery

Question 71

Was Germany allowed an air force?

Answer 71

No

Question 72

What number of battleships was the navy limited to?

Answer 72

6

Question 73

Were submarines allowed in T of V?

Answer 73

No

Question 74

How many sailors were allowed in the navy?

Answer 74

15 000

Question 75

How much money in £ was reparations?as part of T of V

Answer 75

£6.6 billion

Question 76

What article stated that Germany had to take the blame for starting the war

Answer 76

Article 231 + ‘war guilt clause’

Question 77

Did the T of V allow Germany to join the League of Nations?

Answer 77

No

Question 78

Which country was Germany forbidden to unite with?

Answer 78

Austria

Question 79

How many political murders were there 1919-1922?

Answer 79

Over 376

Question 80

Were any right wing assassins ever prosecuted?

Answer 80

No

Question 81

What right wing revolutionary armed group supported the DNVP ?

Answer 81

Stanhelm (steel helmets)

Question 82

Who are the Freikorps led by?

Answer 82

General Wolfgang Kapp

Question 83

Who comprised the main part of the Freikorps?

Answer 83

Former soldiers (left unemployed after WWI) and right wing revolutionaries