Dates

Question 1

When was Franz Ferdinand assassinated?

Answer 1

28 June 1914

Question 2

When did WW1 begin?

Answer 2

28 July 1914

Question 3

When was WW1 stuck in a stalemate?

Answer 3

At the end of 1914

Question 4

When was the document ‘The Treaty of Versailles’ produced?

Answer 4

June 1919

Question 5

When was Nicholas II abdicated?

Answer 5

16 March 1917

Question 6

When did Lenin return to Russia?

Answer 6

April 1917

Question 7

When did the Bolsheviks seize power from the provisional government?

Answer 7

October 1917

Question 8

When did Russia become a one party state?

Answer 8

January 1918

Question 9

When was the Treaty of Brest Litvosk signed between Russia and Germany?

Answer 9

March 1918

Question 10

When were the Romanov family killed?

Answer 10

16 July 1918

Question 11

When did Adolf Hitler and the Nazis come to power?

Answer 11

1933

Question 12

When did the mass killing of millions of Jews occur?

Answer 12

During the second world war which was from 1939-1945

Question 13

When was the defeat of Nazi Germany?

Answer 13

1945

Question 14

1933 March

Answer 14

A boycott of Jewish shops organised for one day

Question 15

April 1933

Answer 15

A law removed all Jewish and political opponents from public service.

Question 16

October 1933

Answer 16

Removed Jews from the media

Question 17

May 1935

Answer 17

All Jews remived from the army

Question 18

September 1935

Answer 18

Anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws introduced:
1. The Reich citizen law’: declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to German citizens (citizens of the ‘Reich’).

2. Law for protection of German Blood and German Honour : forbade marriages and sexual relations between Jews and Germans. It was a law designed to protect German blood and punishment for breaking it was severe.

Question 19

March 1936

Answer 19

Withdrawal of financial assistance for Jewish children

Question 20

October 1936

Answer 20

Jewish teachers forbidden to teach non Jewish children.

Question 21

1937

Answer 21

Jewish people unable to gain a university degree

Question 22

1938

Answer 22

. All Jews must tell the government how much wealth they have and where it is.
. All Jewish women must have ‘Sara’ and Jewish men ‘Israel” in their name.
• A red ‘Jew’ stamp must be in all Jewish passports.
• All Jewish Children banned from attending German Schools
. Jewish doctors lose right to work
. Forced to wear distincitve clothing such as a star on their clothes

Question 23

February 1923

Answer 23

In February 1923 there was an economic crisis. The
government printed more & more money until it was
worthless. It was called hyperinflation.

Question 24

March 1923

Answer 24

In March 1923 Because Germany couldn’t pay France their
reparations the French invaded parts of Germany and took
goods instead. The small German army couldn’t stop them.

Question 25

Novemeber 1923

Answer 25

November 1923 Germans were angry that the government wasn’t trying to do
anything to stop hyper-inflation or get the French out. Hitler decided to stage a
‘putsch’ in Munich, and he, the Nazis and the SA tried to overthrow the
government. But he and others were shot and imprisoned instead.

Question 26

1924-25

Answer 26

1924-1925 Hitler was sent to prison for trying to
overthrow the German government. This got him
a lot of press coverage, especially when he
decided to write a book about his thoughts, ‘Mein
Kampf’.

Question 27

1927

Answer 27

1927 The Nazis hold their first massive political rally, the
Nuremburg Rally, to attract people to their cause.

Question 28

1929

Answer 28

1929: there is another economic crisis called ‘the Great Depression’. The USA
ask for their money back (the loans) from Germany, who then can’t afford to
pay France. France invades the country again and unemployment in Germany
reaches 4 million.

Question 29

January 1933

Answer 29

Jan. 1933 The Nazi Party becomes the largest political party
in Germany and President Hindenburg is forced to make
Hitler Chancellor of Germany.

Question 30

Feb 1933

Answer 30

Feb. 1933 the Reichstag (German Parliament building) is
set on fire and the Nazis point the finger at the
Communist party. Hitler creates the ‘Enabling Law’ in
March 1933 which allows him to make up laws in ‘an
emergency’. He bans other political parties.

Question 31

April 1933

Answer 31

April. 1933. Hitler creates the Gestapo, a secret police to
do his bidding and capture political enemies. He sets up
the first concentration camp for them.

Question 32

When did WW1 end?

Answer 32

Novemeber 1918

Question 33

When was the Beer Hall Putsch?

Answer 33

1923

Question 34

When was Hitler arrested?

Answer 34

1923

Question 35

When was Hitler released from prison?

Answer 35

1924

Question 36

When did the Nazis become the largest single party?

Answer 36

1932

Question 37

When was the Enabling act passed?

Answer 37

1933

Question 38

When was the Night of the Long knives?

Answer 38

June 1934

Question 39

When did Hitler become a dictator?

Answer 39

2 August 1934

Question 40

1933

Answer 40

Hitler built up Germany’s armed forces

Question 41

1936

Answer 41

Hitler introduced conscription

Question 42

1937

Answer 42

Hitler helped the Spanish dictator to win the civil war in Spain

Question 43

March 1938

Answer 43

Austria would be joined with Germany

Question 44

September 1938

Answer 44

Hitler signed the Munich aggreement which allowed him to take over Sudetenland

Question 45

March 1939

Answer 45

Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia

Question 46

September 1939

Answer 46

German troops invaded Poland

Question 47

When was the Blitz?

Answer 47

December 1940