Germany facts to learn

Question 1

how many people died ww1 + wounded

Answer 1

4 million dead
2 million wounded

Question 2

how many ww1 widows were there

Answer 2

600,000

Question 3

how many civilains died from starvation after ww1

Answer 3

763 000

Question 4

how many people died from flu pandemic after ww1

Answer 4

150,000

Question 5

what were the terms of the treaty of versailles

Answer 5

100,000 men army
6 battle ships
0 submarines + other
£6.6billion reparations
Demilitarisation of Rhineland
Forbidden to join with Austria

Question 6

how was industrial production if 1918 compared to 1913

Answer 6

only 2/3 of what it had been

Question 7

what was the german debt after ww1

Answer 7

grown from 50bn marks 1914 to 150 bn marks 1918

Question 8

economic and social affects of ww1

Answer 8

worker 1918 only earning 60% of what they earned 1913
wealth unevenly distributed (big businesses lots money)
- social resentment

Question 9

weimar structure

Answer 9

president elected every 7 years
chancellor controls cabinet
Reichstag elected every 4 years
reichstrat represents every germn region

Question 10

how many political assassinations were there from 1919 to 1923

Answer 10

376
leaders scared
social anxiety

Question 11

Sparticist uprising?

Answer 11

12th january 1919
communist - 50,000 members
overturn weimar government in berlin
lead by rosa luxemberg + karl liebknecht
over 100 people killed

Question 12

weimar government

Answer 12

men and women over 20 can vote
proportional representation
article 48 - president could bypass democracy
weak constitution - german states e.g prussia still held power through reichstrat

Question 13

Kapp Putsch?

Answer 13

13th March 1920
Wolf gang kapp
Freikorps - ex ww1 soldiers
right wing
longed for kaiser + hate weimar + overturn treaty of versailles
after 5 days Ebert called workers on strike
= failed

Question 14

how many troop marched on ruhr

Answer 14

60,000

Question 15

consequences of ruhr

Answer 15

over 8 months 132 people killed
150,000 people displaced from homes
Lead to hyperinflation to pay workers

Question 16

effects of 1923 hyperinflation

Answer 16

bread 0.6 marks 1918 to 200,000 billion marks 1923
people pay off debt
farmer benefit
people fixed incomes/pensions struggled
increased poverty and starvation
people had to money to burn for warmth
children played with money
people carried money in wheel barrows
small businesses went bankrupt
people lost savings e.g middle class

Question 17

how was industrial production 1928

Answer 17

higher
exports had risen by 40% 1925-1929

Question 18

weimar living standard good

Answer 18

1927 insurance system help unemployed + ill
by 1929 100,000 new homes built

Question 19

how many seats did nazis have in reichstag 1924 and 1928

Answer 19

1924 - 32
1928 - 12

Question 20

how did membership increase in nazis

Answer 20

in 1925 27,000 members
but
in 1929 130,000 members

Question 21

impacts of great depression

Answer 21

1932 - 40% of workers
unemployed
US cut of loans so businesses had to sack workers
People had no income
1933 - 6 million Germany unemployed
Homeless people rose - living in tents
Level in violence and theft increased on streets
1000s of people died of starvation

Question 22

how did votes change for nazis 1928-1932

Answer 22

1928 - 2.6%
1930 - 18%
1932 - 37%

Question 23

how did nazis appeal

Answer 23

farmers - protect land from communist
workers - increase wages, cut working hours, give employment and food
businessmen - fix great depp impacts + allow to keep factories
middle class - stop communism and return germany to traditional roots
youth - excitement and opportunities
women - family and home importance
soldiers - promised rearmament, industrialisation, bring back german military power

Question 24

how many killed knight of long knives

Answer 24

400
icluding rohm and vonschleicher

Question 25

how many jews died in kristallnach

Answer 25

91 killed
1000+ left country
20,000 sent to conc camps
hundreds synagogues burned
shops, business resryrants smashed

Question 26

secyrity nazi germany

Answer 26

gestapo 200,000 informants 50 000 full time employees

ss - hitlers protection squad
sd - worked out of country, lead by heydrard

legal system controlled - trials by jurt banned rested judge alone had to join national socialist league for maintenance of the law
berlin peoples court usually found criminals guilty if they opposed nazis