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Question 1

1) When was the armistice signed declaring Germany’s surrender?
2) Which Government signed it?
3) Name the prime minister of the UK and the president of USA and France who headed the talks?

Answer 1

1) The armistice was signed the 11th of November 1918
2) Weimar Government
3) UK; Lloyd George
USA; Wilson
France; Clemencleau

Question 2

When was the Spartacist uprising?

Who were the leaders?

Answer 2

1) January 1919

2) Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxeburg

Question 3

When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?

Answer 3

The 28th of June 1919

Question 4

When was the Red rising in the Ruhr?

Answer 4

1920

Question 5

1) When was the Kapp Putsch?

2) Who was it led by? And what group?

Answer 5

1) March 1920

2) Wolfgang Kapp and the Freikorps

Question 6

When did Hitler become leader of the Nazi party

Answer 6

1921

Question 7

1) When did the Weimar Government default on reparations?

2) When did French and Beligian troops invade the Ruhr?

Answer 7

1) 1922

2) January 1923

Question 8

When did Gustav Stresemann become chancellor of Germany?

Answer 8

August 1923

Question 9

1) When did Hyper inflation start?

2) When was the Rentenmark introduced?

Answer 9

1) 1923

2) October 1923

Question 10

1) When was the Beer Hall Putsch

2) Which group?

Answer 10

1) 8th - 9th November 1923

2) The NDSP (Nazi)

Question 11

1) When was Hitler sentenced to prison for treason for 5 years for his role in the Beer Hall putsch?
2) When was he banned from talking until?
3) When was he released?
4) When was Mein Kampf published?

Answer 11

1) April 1924
2) 1927
3) December 1924 (despite his 5 year sentencing)
4) June 1925

Question 12

1) When was the Dawes plan signed?

What was it

Answer 12

1924 (Have longer to pay repartions

Question 13

When did Hindenburg become president?

Answer 13

February 1925

Question 14

1) When was the Locarno treaty signed? (What was it?)
2) When did Germany enter the League of Nations?
3) What was signed in 1928?

Answer 14

1) 1925 (Countries agreed their borders)
2) 1926
3) The Kellogg and Briand pact

Question 15

When was Stresemann awarded a Nobel peace prize?

Answer 15

1926

Question 16

What 2 events occurred in October 1929 (what date) ?

Answer 16

October 1929; Stresseman dies

24th October 1929; The Wall street crash

Question 17

When was Joseph Goebbels made minister of Propaganda?

Answer 17

1928

Question 18

When was Heinrich HImmler made Head of the SS?

Answer 18

1929

Question 19

In 1931 what did unemployment in Germany reach?

Answer 19

1 million

Question 20

Hindenburg beat Hitler in an election (19.3 million vs 13.4 million) in what year?

Answer 20

1932

Question 21

1) When did Von Papen ‘resign’?

2) When did the Von Papen deal happen?

Answer 21

1) 1932

2) January 1933

Question 22

1) When was the Reichstag fire?

2) Who was blamed for starting it?

Answer 22

1) 27th February 1933

2) Marius Van Der Lubbe (a Dutch communist)

Question 23

When was the enabling act passed?

Answer 23

March 1933

Question 24

What happened in the April 1933?

Answer 24

The boycott of Jewish businesses

Question 25

1) When were Trade unions banned?
2) When was the social democratic party banned?
3) When was every party except the Nazi Party banned?

Answer 25

1) Trade unions banned May 1933
2) Social Democrat party banned June 1933
3) Only the Nazi party was allowed in July 1933

Question 26

In what year was the motherhood cross and marriage loans introduced?

Answer 26

1933

Question 27

When was the first concentration set up?

Answer 27

Dachau; March 1933

Question 28

When did Hitler become chancellor?

Answer 28

Hitler became Chancellor on Jan 1933

Question 29

1) When was Ernst Rohm murdered?

2) What’s the name for this event?

Answer 29

1) 30th June 1934

2) The night of the Long knives

Question 30

1) When did Hindenburg die?

2) When did Hitler become Fuhrer?

Answer 30

1) August 1934

2) August 1934

Question 31

When were the Nuremberg laws passed?

Answer 31

September 1935

Question 32

When was the four year plan introduced

Answer 32

September 1936 (economic reforms to make Germany self sufficient)

Question 33

When was Kristallnacht?

Answer 33

9th-10th November 1938

Question 34

When did WW2 start?

Answer 34

1st September 1939

Question 35

1) When was the Warsaw ghetto sealed off?

2) When was the Warsaw uprising?

Answer 35

1) November 1940

2) April 1943

Question 36

1) When was the first extermination camp opened?

2) When did the final solution begin?

Answer 36

1) 1941

2) 1942

Question 37

When did Hitler end the Euthanasia program?

Answer 37

1941

Question 38

1) When were the leaders of the White Rose group executed?

2) When was operation Valkyrie / the Stauffenberg bomb plot?

Answer 38

1) 1943

2) July 1944

Question 39

1) When did Hitler kill himself

2) When did WW2 end?

Answer 39

1) 1945

2) 2nd of September 1945

Question 40

When did the Nazi Party buy their own newspaper?

Answer 40

1920

Question 41

Martin Niemöller set up the Confessional Church to oppose Nazism. When was he was sent to a concentration camp?

Answer 41

In 1938.

Question 42

What year was Dietrich Bonhoeffer (founding member of the confessional churh) killed?

Answer 42

1945

Question 43

When were 12 Edelweiss pirates hung?

Answer 43

1944

Question 44

When was the SA founded?

Answer 44

1921