Germany Stats Flashcards
Germany topic dates
1890-1945
Germany become a country
1871 (39 states unify)
Wilhelm becomes Kaiser
June 1888
SPD become largest party in Reichstag
1912
Kaiser abdicates the throne
9th November 1918 (Weimar gov temporarily takes over)
End date of WW1
11th Nov 1918
Treaty of Versailles signed
28th June 1919
Spartacists Uprising
January 1919
Weimar Republic created
19th January 1919
Kapp Putsch
March 1920
Ruhr Crisis
1923
Hyperinflation
1923
Munich Putsch
November 1923
Gustav Stresemann’s solutions
1924-1929
Dawes Plan
April 1924
Young’s Plan
February 1929
Locarno Pact signed
1925
Germany’s Golden Age/ Weimar Culture
1924-1929
Metropolis film
1927
Nazis vote percentage in 1928
2.6%
Wall Street Crash
29th Oct 1929
Germany’s Depression
1929-1932
First significant Reichstag election
1930
How many votes do Nazis win in 1930 election?
107 seats (second largest party)
Second significant Reichstag election
July 1932
What percentage of votes do the Nazis win in July 1932 election?
37% (largest party but not majority)
Third significant Reichstag election
Nov 1932
What percentage of votes do the Nazis win in November 1932 election? What was the loss?
33% (2 million votes lost in 4 months)
Hitler becomes chancellor
30th Jan 1933
Reichstag Fire
27th Feb 1933
Reichstag Fire Decree
28th Feb 1933
Fourth Reichstag election with Hitler as Chancellor
March 5th 1933
What percentage did Hitler win in the March 1933 election?
44%
Reichstag forced to pass Enabling Act
23rd Mar 1933
Night of the Long Knives
30th June- 2nd July 1934
President Hindenburg dies/ Hitler declares himself President
2nd Aug 1934
Nazis have a large control over women, youth, work schemes, propaganda etc
1933-1939
Concordat signed
July 1933
Nazis murder 70,000 disabled people
1939-1941
Anti Semitic Nuremberg Laws
1935
Kristallnacht
Nov 1938
Relocation of Jews to Ghettos
1939
Einsatzgruppen
Summer 1941
Bomb plot
20th July 1944
White Rose movement
1943
Edelweiss pirates
1944
How many Germans lived in towns and cities by 1910 (urbanisation)?
60%
How many civilians starved in WW1?
30,000
How many German soldiers died in WW1?
1.8 million
How many died in the Spartacists Uprising?
About 100
How much did Germany have to pay for the ToV?
£6.6 billion
How much land did Germany lose from the Alsace and Lorraine?
13%
How much iron production did Germany lose from the ToV?
48%
What was Germany’s army limited to from the ToV?
100,000
How many Friekorps supported the Kapp Putsch?
5000
What was the increase in a loaf of bread during Hyperinflation in 1923?
250 marks to 200,000 marks
How many Nazis and police officers are killed at the Munich Putsch?
17 Nazis and 4 police officers
How long was Hitler in prison for and what did he write?
9 months, Mein Kampf
How much money does Germany borrow from Dawes Plan?
$800 million
How many Germans are unemployed during the Depression?
6 million
How many members did the Nazis have in 1928?
100,000
How many people were killed in the July 1932 election?
500
How many communists were arrested after the Reichstag Fire?
4,000
When are other political parties banned by the Nazis?
Summer of 1933
When were trade unions banned?
1st May 1933
When is Hitler Youth most popular and when does it become compulsory?
1933-1939, 1936
How many people are in concentration camps by the end of 1933?
25,000
When did the Nazis shut down Catholic school?
1939
What was the Nazi euthanasia program?
Action T4
What was the letter the Pope wrote?
“With burning grief”
What was the ages people had to spend time in RAD?
Under 25s
What did Nazis reduce unemployment to?
302,000
When was Schact sacked and Goerring brought in?
1936
How many Jews were killed at Kristallnacht?
200
How many synagogues were burnt down at Kristallnacht?
200
How many Germans owned radios by 1939?
70%
How many Germans were killed in Dresden and Hamburg during WW2?
90,000 in Dresden and 45,000 in Hamburg
How many Jews did the Einsatzgruppen kill?
1 million
Wannasee Conference
20th Jan 1942
