Int Relations and Deutschland: Gaps in knowledge

Question 1

Opposition to Hitler: Archbishop

Answer 1

The Catholic Archbishop of Munster, von Galen led a successful campaign to end euthanasia of mentally disabled people.

Question 2

Opposition to Hitler: White Rose group

Answer 2

Formed by Students at Munich University. Published anti-Germany leaflets but were discovered and executed in 1944.

Question 3

Opposition to Hitler: Edelweiss Pirates

Answer 3

Violent group, beat up Nazi officials.

Question 4

Opposition to Hitler: Swing Youth

Answer 4

Gathered and played Swing music, not accepted in the society.

Question 5

Nazi Economic policy?

Answer 5

Full Employment
Beauty of work
Re-armament
Autarky

Question 6

Full Employment?

Answer 6

The idea that everyone should have a job. By 1939, there was virtually no unemployment in Germany.

Question 7

Beauty of Work?

Answer 7

The Nazis set up the SdA (Beauty of Work) to help Germans see that work was good, and that everyone who could work should. In fact - because the Nazis had abolished the trade unions, banned strikes, and given more power to the industrialists - real wages fell and hours were longer under Hitler.

Question 8

Re-armament?

Answer 8

Begun in 1935 - the idea of ‘guns before butter’.

Question 9

Autarky

Answer 9

There was an unsuccessful attempt at making Germany self-sufficient.

Question 10

How did Hitler increase jobs?

Answer 10

Stopped paying reparations
Rearmament.
Jews were sacked
Women were sacked
Public works

Question 11

Public works that created jobs?

Answer 11

He also built public buildings such as the 1936 Olympic Stadium. The construction of the autobahns created work for 80,000 men.

Question 12

What was the RAD?

Answer 12

The labour service in which young men in Germany had to do a six-month compulsory stint. ] and then they were conscripted into the army.

Question 13

Jews: How many murdered? Calories? Gas Chambers?

Answer 13

6 million
200 Cals a day
2000 in a single gas chamber.

Question 14

How much money was Marshall plan?

Answer 14

$15 billion.

Question 15

How much money was the Dawes plan?

Answer 15

500 million marks.

Question 16

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 16

Jews could not be citizens. They were not allowed to vote or to marry a German.

Question 17

Progression of Persecution of the Jews? 1933.

Answer 17

• Boycott of Jewish businesses.
• Jewish civil servants, lawyers and teachers sacked.
• Race Science lessons to teach that Jews are untermensch.

Question 18

Progression of Persecution of the Jews? 1935

Answer 18

• ‘Jews not wanted here’ signs put up at swimming pools etc.

- Nuremberg laws (15 September) Jews could not be citizens. They were not allowed to vote or to marry a German.

Question 19

Progression of Persecution of the Jews? 1938

Answer 19

• Jews could not be doctors.
• Jews had to add the name Israel (men) or Sarah (women) to their name.
• Jewish children forbidden to go to school.
• Kristallnacht (9 November) - attacks on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues.

Question 20

Kristallnacht? (Night of the broken glass)

Answer 20

• Kristallnacht (9 November) - attacks on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues.

Question 21

Progression of Persecution of the Jews? 1939

Answer 21

• Jews were forbidden to own a business, or own a radio.

- Jews were forced to live in ghettoes.

Question 22

Progression of Persecution of the Jews? 1941

Answer 22

• Army Einsatzgruppen squads in Russia started mass-shootings of Jews.
• All Jews were forced to wear a yellow star of David.

Question 23

Progression of Persecution of the Jews? 1942

Answer 23

• Wansee Conference (20 January) decided on the Final Solution, which was to gas all Europe’s Jews. The main death camps were at Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor.

Question 24

What is the Rhineland?

Answer 24

Land that had been taken away in the TofV.

Question 25

What was the Nazi Soviet pact?

Answer 25

Alliance between Hitler and Stalin which agreed to divide Poland between the two countries.

Question 26

What was the Anglo Polish Common Defense Pact?

Answer 26

This agreement offered mutual military assistance in the event that one country was attacked by another European country.

Question 27

What was in place to get women to have children?

Answer 27

• The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage gave newly wed couples a loan of 1,000 marks, and allowed them to keep 250 marks for each child they had.
• Mothers who had more than eight children were given a gold medal.
• Unmarried women could volunteer to have a baby for an Aryan member of the SS.

Question 28

Election 1928 pre wall St crash

Answer 28

Election of May 20th 1928: the Nazis received 2.6% of the popular vote and 12 seats in the Reichstag out of a total of 491 seats.

Question 29

Election 1933

Answer 29

Election of March 5th 1933: the Nazis received 43.9% of the popular vote and 288 seats in the Reichstag out of a total of 647 seats.

Question 30

Election 1930 post wall St crash

Answer 30

Election of September 14th 1930: the Nazis received 18.3% of the popular vote and 107 seats in the Reichstag out of a total of 577 seats.

Question 31

Golden Years of Wiemar Germany?

Answer 31

1924-1929

Question 32

The Dawes Plan?

Answer 32

1924

• Agreement between Germmnay and her former enemys regarding reperation payments
• Large loan of 800 million dollars to aid Germnay to get back on feet.
• As a result Germany boomed and became known as the night life capital of europe.

Question 33

The Locarno Pact?

Answer 33

1925

• Under Streseman, signed a pact at Locarno in Swizland which stated that German French Belgian Czech and Polish neighbours would all agree to a major conference if differences should occur about borders
• Designed to stop war.
• Streesmen then won Noble Peace prize in 1926.

Question 34

The German entry to the league of nations?

Answer 34

1926

• Designed to stop war by negotiation in the light of WWI.
• 1933 - Hitler leaves, conference in Geneva

Question 35

The kellogg - Briand Treaty?

Answer 35

1928

- Signed Treaty that stated that war is not the correct way to settle disputes

Question 36

The Young Plan?

Answer 36

1929
Signed in October, same month Stressman died
Cut Germany’s reparation payments by 75%.

Question 37

Wall Street Crash?

Answer 37

1929 - Americans needed money back from Dawes plan.

Question 38

Leaders on White Rose Group

Answer 38

Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl,