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1
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When did Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicate? [1]

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9 Nov 1918

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When was the armistice to end WW1 signed? [1]

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11 Nov 1918

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When did the Naval rebellion in Kiel happen? [1]

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3 Nov 1918

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4
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When did the Spartacsit Uprising happen? [2]

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5 - 12 Jan 1919

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5
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When was the German Workers Party created? [1]

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5 Jan 1919

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When did Friedrich’s democratic party win the election? [1]

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19 Jan 1919

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7
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When did the Weimar Republic get approved? [1]

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11 Aug 1919

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When did Hitler join the German Workers Party and take over roles? [1]

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12 Sep 1919

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9
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When did the German Workers Party rename themselves to NAZIS? [1]

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24 Feb 1920

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10
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When did the Kapp Putsch happen? [2]

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13 - 17 Mar 1920

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When did the invasion of the Ruhr happen? [1]

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11 Jan 1923

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12
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When did Gustav Stresemann become Chancellor? [1]

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Aug 1923

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13
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When did the Munich Putsch happen? [1]

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8 Nov 1923

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14
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When did Germany join the League of Nations? [1]

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Sep 1926

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15
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When did the Wall Street Crash happen? [1]

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Oct 1929

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16
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When did Gustav Stresemann die? [1]

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Oct 1929

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17
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When did von Schleicher become Chancellor? [1]

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3 Dec 1932

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18
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When did Hitler become Chancellor? [1]

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30 Jan 1933

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19
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When did the Reichstag FIre happen? [1]

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27 Feb 1933

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20
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When was the Enabling Act established? [1]

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23 March 1933

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21
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When did trade unions get abolished? [1]

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May 1933

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22
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When was the Sterilisation Law introduced? [1]

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July 1933

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23
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When did the Night of the Long Knives happen? [1]

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30 Jun - July 2, 1934

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24
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When were Rohm and other SA leaders arrested and shot? [1]

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30 June - July 2, 1934

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25
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When did President Hindenburg die? [1]

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2 Aug 1934

26
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When did Kristallnacht occur? [1]

27
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When did WW2 breakout? [1]

28
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When was the Wannsee Conference? [1]

29
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When did the assassination attack against Hitler fail? [1]

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20 Jul 1944

30
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In what time period did the cultural revival period in Berlin happen? [1]

31
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What was ‘The Final Solution’? [4] SS

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  • the killing of Jews in 1941
  • the decision to eliminate all European Jews at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942
  • death camps with gas chambers
  • Nazis killed around 6mil Jews
32
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(AP) Who replaced Wilhelm II and which party what is it? [1]

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Friedrich Ebert, leading the Social Democratic Party

33
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When did the killing of Jews begin? [1] SS

33
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(AP)Who tried to overthrow Ebert and his party? [2]

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Spartacist Uprising (Communist, left wing)

Kapp Putsch ( Right wing)

34
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How did the Nazis kill the Jews? [4] SS

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  • gassing
  • shooting
  • working to death
  • starvation
35
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(AP) Who were the leaders of the Spartacist Uprising?

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Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg

36
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How did the Nazis attempt to cover up their murderous activities as it became evident that they would lose WW2? [1] SS

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  • by ripping up the railway tracks leading to the death camps
37
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(AP) How did the Spartacist Uprising try to meet their objectives? [4]

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  • Formed Revolutionary Committee
  • Seizure of newspaper offices
  • Strikes
  • Street fighting, armed
38
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What were the series of emergency measures Goebbels introduced to help Germany with the war effort in mid-1944? [3] SS

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  • reduction of rail and post services
  • the closing of all places of popular entertainment
  • raising the age limit to compulsory female labour to 50
39
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(AP) How did the Government control the Spartacist Uprising and what’s the significance behind it? [2]

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-Called Freikorps for backup
- Shows weakness of new gvt

40
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How did the bombing of Germany affect the German population? [3] SS

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  • 3.6mil homes destroyed
  • similar number of civilian fatalities
  • more homeless people
  • 2.5mil children evacuated to rural areas
40
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(AP) What were some of the features of the new Weimar constitution? [3]

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  • Proportional representation:
  • Article 48:
  • Forward looking features: Men and women have an equal say in the voting
40
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What did food shortages cause Germans to do?[2] SS

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  • search for food in rubbish piles
  • eat meat from dead horses
41
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(AP) What was the Kapp Putsch about? [5]

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Leader: Dr Wolfgang Kapp
Objective : Replace Weimar gvt with nationalist gvt
Methods : Freikorps marched into Berlin
Government Response : Couldn’t rely on army support, needed support from the Berlin workers
Reasons for failure : Strike in Berlin lead to a halt in transport, civil service, etc
Significance : Government survived but was unable to restore order using law - enforcing agencies. Neither the army nor the government assisted Putsch.

42
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What was autarky and an example? [3] SS

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  • Hitler trying to make Germany self-sufficient
  • trying to reduce imports of raw materials and food
  • e.g. producing coffee from acorns
43
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(AP) What did France and Belgium do to Germany after Germany stopped paying the reparations? [2]

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Invaded the Ruhr in 23’, taking coal as compensation

44
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How did Nazi rule reduce unemployment of the working class? [2] SS

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  • men = conscripted into the army and needed in supply industries
  • autobahn-building project
45
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Who saved the Weimar Gvt from collapsing in 23’? [1]

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Gustav Stressemann

46
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What was the auto-bahn building project? [2] SS

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  • enlisting all 18-25yos in National Labour Service
  • for 6 months
47
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(AP) Stresemann’s rescue plan? [3]

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-ended passive resistance in the Ruhr
-stabilised the currency
-resumed reparations to the Allies.

48
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How did Farmers benefit from Nazi rule? [3] SS

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  • price guarantees for their produce
  • reduction/elimination of debts
  • protection against estates being broken up to pay death duties
49
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(AP) What was the Dawes Plan? [2]

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April 24’, a loan of 800 million $ was provided by the US to help kick - start the economy.

50
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How did Nazi rule benefit businessmen and industrialists? [3] SS

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  • Jewish businesses and the growth of department stores were restricted so small operators benefited
  • large firms benefited through the trade unions being abolished
  • eliminationof communist threat also benefited them
51
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(AP) What problems still remained after the Dawes Plan? [3]

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-struggling agriculture sector
-high unemployment
-revival dependent on US loans

52
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Who suffered from Nazi rule? [8] SS

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  • Jews
  • Gypsies
  • Committed communists
  • Socialists
  • Devout Christians
  • Religious sect members
  • Not an Aryan
  • Anyone who had strong views that challenged Nazi ideology
53
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What’s the Wall Street Crash? [1]

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In 29’ the U.S. stock market collapsed, signaling the beginning of the Great Depression.

54
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What were some measures designed to reverse the progress made by women? [4] SS

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  • deprived of the right to vote
  • prevented from sitting in the Reichstag
  • forced out of professions
  • requested to stick with the three Ks
55
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(AP) Successes for the Weimar Republic after 23’? [4]

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  • Germany gained equal footing with major powers by 1929.
  • Stresemann’s emergency measures made France agree to leave the Ruhr in July 1925.
  • Rehabilitation continued in 1926 with Germany’s admission to the League of Nations.
  • Reparations reduced from 6.6 billion to 2 billion.
56
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What were the ‘Three Ks’ the women were requested to stick with? [3] SS

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  • Kinder = Children
  • Kirche = Church
  • Kuche = Kitchen
57
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(AP) What was the Nazi’s party name originally? [1]

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German Workers Party

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