Dates

Question 1

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Question 2

When was the treaty of Versailles signed

Answer 2

28 June 1919

Question 3

What was the Spartacist Uprising?

Answer 3

• January 1919 in Berlin
• Aim to bring communist revolution
• Crushed easily by Reichswehr (army)
• Spartacist leader Rosa luxembourg died

Question 4

What happened in the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 4

• on March 1920
• right wing groups
• because government planned to reduced Reichswehr (army) in size
• collapsed as trade unions declared a General Strike
• Led by Wolfgang Kapp

Question 5

When did HYPERINFLATION start in Germany?

Answer 5

early 1923

Question 6

Why and when did Belgium and France decided to send troops to the Ruhr?

Answer 6

• in January 1923

- as Germany failed to pay it’s reparations instalment

Question 7

When did Gustav Stressemann became chancellor and what did he do?

Answer 7

Summer of 1923, introduced anew currency

Question 8

When was the Dawes plan accepted then came into effect?

Answer 8

August 1924 and September 1924

Question 9

What is the Young Plan and when?

Answer 9

• 1929

- reparations were lowered from 6600 million to 1850 million

Question 10

What is the Kellog- Briand pact and when?

Answer 10

• 1928

- keep armies for ‘self defence’ and solve all disputes peacefully

Question 11

What 3 thing did Stresemann do?

Answer 11

• In 1925, France withdrew from the Ruhr
• The allies agreed to the Dawe’s plan and the Young plan
• In 1927, Allied troops withdrew from the west bank of the Rhine, before the original schedule of 1933

Question 12

When was the Munich Putsch?

Answer 12

8 November 1923

Question 13

What happened in the Munich Putsch?

Answer 13

• On the night of 8 November 1923
• Hitler and stormtroopers burst into a meeting that KAHR and LOSSOW were holding at the local Beer Hall.
• Hitler forced them to agree to rebel - and then let them go home.
• The SA took over the army headquarters and the offices of the local newspaper.
• The next day, 9 November 1923, Hitler and his Nazis went into Munich on what they thought would be a triumphal march to take power.
• Kahr had called in police and army reinforcements.
• There was a short scuffle in which the police killed some Nazis

Question 14

When was the Bamberg Conference

Answer 14

1926

Question 15

When did the US stock market crash?

Answer 15

• October 1929

- -caused the Great depression

Question 16

When did Hitler become chancellor of Germany?

Answer 16

30 January 1933

Question 17

When was the enabling act?

Answer 17

March 1933

Question 18

When did Hitler become Fuhrer?

Answer 18

-2nd August 1934

Question 19

How did Jews lose their political rights?

Answer 19

1935 Nuremberg laws - Jews lost their citizenship, right to vote and hold government office

Question 20

How did Jews lose their economic rights?

Answer 20

1933- banned from inheriting land

1938- Kristallnacht

Question 21

How did Jews lose their social rights?

Answer 21

• 1934 - banned Jews from public spaces
• 1938-Jews had to carry identity cards, Jewish men had to add ‘Israel’ to their names, Jewish doctors were forbidden from treating aryans

Question 22

What happened in Kristalnacht and when?

Answer 22

• 8 November 1938
• young polish Jew shot up a person in German embassy
• Goebbels used this to organise anti-Jewish demonstrations, attacks on Jewish property, shops, homes and synagogues

Question 23

When were Jews moved into ghettos?

Answer 23

• April 1939- Jews were evicted from their homes and forced into designated Jewish accommodation called Ghettos

Question 24

When did Goebbels set up the Ministry for Populart Enlighten and Propaganda

Answer 24

March 1934

Question 25

When was the Disarmament conference?

Answer 25

1932

Question 26

When was the attempted Anchluss?

Answer 26

-July 1934

Question 27

When was the return of the Saarland?

Answer 27

-January 1935

Question 28

When did Hitler announce he was rearming

Answer 28

March 1935

Question 29

When and what happened after Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland?

Answer 29

7th March 1936

-no response from Britain or France due to the Abyssinian crisis (Italy invaded)

Question 30

When was the Rome-Berlin axis?

Answer 30

October 1936

Question 31

When was the Anti comintern pact?

Answer 31

November 1936

Italy joined November 1937

Question 32

What events Sudetenland crisis ?

Answer 32

April 1938 - same thing as Austria but blamed it on Czech officials
- Chamberlain arranges meeting as Czechoslovakia is threatened

Question 33

When and what happened at Munich conference?

Answer 33

• September 1938
• Britain ,France ,Germany and Italy decided to give Germany Sudetenland as long as he did not invade the rest of Czechoslovakia

Question 34

When and what was the pact of steel?

Answer 34

• May 1939

- Mussolini and Hitler agreed to make a military alliance

Question 35

When did Hitler invade Poland

Answer 35

September 1939

Question 36

What happened in the Anschluss?

Answer 36

1936-37- Hitler encouraged the Nazi party in Austria to stir up trouble
-8 March 1938, Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg decided to hold a plebiscite to allow Austrians to vote on the future of the country
12 March 1938- Hitler threatened to invade Austria so Schuschnigg resigned and replaced by the leader of the Nazi party, leader of the Nazi party asked Hitler to send troops
13 March 1938 Anschluss was proclaimed
-April 1938- Austrians voted for Anschluss