Germany

Question 1

When was the Spartacist Revolt?

Answer 1

January 5-12 1919

Question 2

When was the Weimar Republic established?

Answer 2

February 1919

Question 3

When was the signing of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 3

June 28 1919

Question 4

When was the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 4

March 13-17 1920

Question 5

When did Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr?

Answer 5

January 11 1923

Question 6

When did Gustav Stressemann become Chancellor?

Answer 6

August 13 1923

Question 7

When was the Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch?

Answer 7

November 8 1923

Question 8

When did Stressemann’s government collapse?

Answer 8

November 23 1923

Question 9

When did German hyperinflation peak?

Answer 9

December 1923

Question 10

When did the Dawes plan come into effect?

Answer 10

September 1924

Question 11

When did Hitler get Chancellorship?

Answer 11

January 1933

Question 12

When was the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 12

February 27 1933

Question 13

When was the Enabling Act?

Answer 13

March 23 1933

Question 14

When did the boycott of Jewish owned businesses and of Jewish professionals begin?

Answer 14

April 1 1933

Question 15

When were Trade Unions banned in Germany?

Answer 15

May 1933

Question 16

When was WWI Armistice?

Answer 16

November 11 1918

Question 17

When were political parties (other than the Nazis) banned?

Answer 17

July 1933

Question 18

When was the Nuremberg Laws established - and what did they entail?

Answer 18

September 15 1935

Ban of marriage between Jews and non-Jews and banning Jews from German citizenship

Question 19

When was the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 19

June 30 1934

Question 20

When was Kristallnacht - and what is the english translation?

Answer 20

November 9-10 1938

The Night of the Broken Glass

Question 21

When was the invasion of Poland as the mark of the outbreak of WWII?

Answer 21

September 1 1939

Question 22

When did the Nazis begin the ‘Final Solution’?

Answer 22

1942

Question 23

When was the Stauffenberg Plot (the attempted assassination of Hitler)?

Answer 23

July 20 1944

Question 24

When did Hitler commit suicide?

Answer 24

April 30 1945

Question 25

When was the final surrender of the German Army?

Answer 25

May 7 1945

Question 26

When was the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 26

October 28-29 1929

Question 27

What were the “6 Steps to Power” for Hitlers rise to Dictatorship?

Answer 27

The Reichstag Fire: February 27 1933
New Elections: March 1933
The Enabling Act: March 24 1933
(Political Parties are BANNED in July 1933)
The Night of the Long Knives: June 29 1934
The Death of Hindenberg: August 2 1934
The Further Oath: August 1934

Question 28

What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 28

• Germany had to take the blame and responsibility for WWI (war guilt clause)
• Germany lost its colonies (German Empire)
• to pay reparations (mostly paid towards France)
• Militarg was dramatically cut (army, navy, etc)
• Redrawing of German borders (lost land)

Question 29

Whom were the presidents (etc) in charge at time of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 29

Woodraw Wilson = President of USA
David Lloyd George = Prime Minister
George Clemenceaw = President of France

Question 30

What was the Spartacist Rising, and who was involved?

Answer 30

January 5-12 1919
They were the Revolutionaries (a communist group)
LED BY: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
Turned workers protest into a (unsuccessful revolution). They took over newspaper and telegraphs headquarters- but hoped other protesters would help capture other buildings, which did not happen.
They were captured by the army and Freikorps. 100 workers were killed, and Luxemburg was shot by the Freikorps and Liebknecht was also murdered - the Spartacists struggled without their leaders.

Question 31

What was the Red Rising in the Ruhr, and who was involved?

Answer 31

1920
Angry German workers angered by bad pay and working conditions, run by members of the Communist Party.
30,000 workers occupied the Ruhr region and took control of its raw materials.
The army and Freicorps crushed the rising with over 1000 workers being killed.
Poor planning led to an unsuccessful rising.

Question 32

What was the Kapp Putsch, and who was involved?

Answer 32

March 13-17 1920
After the government disbanded the Kreikorps, so Wolfgang Kapp led the Freikorps on a March.
12,000 marched to Berlin and gained control to form a new government. But workers staged a General Strike and Kapp gave up and fled Berlin.
The government didn’t punish the rebels due to many sympathising with the Freikorps.
Elbert’s government returned.

Question 33

What is the Munich Putsch, and who was involved?

Answer 33

November 8 1923
The Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler and General Ludendorff - 35,000 members and SA were involved.
They believed democracy led to a weak government and they planned, by a revolution, to create a new government.
Hitler and 600 SA soldiers burst into a meeting with the leader of Bavaria (Kahr). They forced Kahr to promise support to the Nazis.
Unsuccessful due to poorly planned Putsch, and Kahr withdrawing support and siding with the German government.
Hitler was sentenced to serve 5 years in prison for high treason, but only served 9 months - where he wrote “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle).

Question 34

What were the three plans to help Germany in the “Golden Years”?

Answer 34

Locarno Treaty, December 1925
- Accepts the borders made by the Treaty of Versailles and becomes a part of the negotiations

Dawes Plan, September 1924
- introduction of the Rentenmark and loans from USA

Young Plan, February 1929
- reduction of Germany’s reparation payments over 59 years