KEy dates Flashcards
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?
1) The armistice was signed the 11th of November 1918
2) Weimar Government
3) UK; Lloyd George
USA; Wilson
France; Clemencleau
When was the Spartacist uprising?
Who were the leaders?
1) January 1919
2) Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxeburg
When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
The 28th of June 1919
When was the Red rising in the Ruhr?
1920
1) When was the Kapp Putsch?
2) Who was it led by? And what group?
1) March 1920
2) Wolfgang Kapp and the Freikorps
When did Hitler become leader of the Nazi party
1921
1) When did the Weimar Government default on reparations?
2) When did French and Beligian troops invade the Ruhr?
1) 1922
2) January 1923
When did Gustav Stresemann become chancellor of Germany?
August 1923
1) When did Hyper inflation start?
2) When was the Rentenmark introduced?
1) 1923
2) October 1923
1) When was the Beer Hall Putsch
2) Which group?
1) 8th - 9th November 1923
2) The NDSP (Nazi)
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?
1) April 1924
2) 1927
3) December 1924 (despite his 5 year sentencing)
4) June 1925
1) When was the Dawes plan signed?
What was it
1924 (Have longer to pay repartions
When did Hindenburg become president?
February 1925
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?
1) 1925 (Countries agreed their borders)
2) 1926
3) The Kellogg and Briand pact
When was Stresemann awarded a Nobel peace prize?
1926
What 2 events occurred in October 1929 (what date) ?
October 1929; Stresseman dies
24th October 1929; The Wall street crash
When was Joseph Goebbels made minister of Propaganda?
1928
When was Heinrich HImmler made Head of the SS?
1929
In 1931 what did unemployment in Germany reach?
1 million
Hindenburg beat Hitler in an election (19.3 million vs 13.4 million) in what year?
1932
1) When did Von Papen ‘resign’?
2) When did the Von Papen deal happen?
1) 1932
2) January 1933
1) When was the Reichstag fire?
2) Who was blamed for starting it?
1) 27th February 1933
2) Marius Van Der Lubbe (a Dutch communist)
When was the enabling act passed?
March 1933
What happened in the April 1933?
The boycott of Jewish businesses
1) When were Trade unions banned?
2) When was the social democratic party banned?
3) When was every party except the Nazi Party banned?
1) Trade unions banned May 1933
2) Social Democrat party banned June 1933
3) Only the Nazi party was allowed in July 1933
In what year was the motherhood cross and marriage loans introduced?
1933
When was the first concentration set up?
Dachau; March 1933
When did Hitler become chancellor?
Hitler became Chancellor on Jan 1933
1) When was Ernst Rohm murdered?
2) What’s the name for this event?
1) 30th June 1934
2) The night of the Long knives
1) When did Hindenburg die?
2) When did Hitler become Fuhrer?
1) August 1934
2) August 1934
When were the Nuremberg laws passed?
September 1935
When was the four year plan introduced
September 1936 (economic reforms to make Germany self sufficient)
When was Kristallnacht?
9th-10th November 1938
When did WW2 start?
1st September 1939
1) When was the Warsaw ghetto sealed off?
2) When was the Warsaw uprising?
1) November 1940
2) April 1943
1) When was the first extermination camp opened?
2) When did the final solution begin?
1) 1941
2) 1942
When did Hitler end the Euthanasia program?
1941
1) When were the leaders of the White Rose group executed?
2) When was operation Valkyrie / the Stauffenberg bomb plot?
1) 1943
2) July 1944
1) When did Hitler kill himself
2) When did WW2 end?
1) 1945
2) 2nd of September 1945
When did the Nazi Party buy their own newspaper?
1920
Martin Niemöller set up the Confessional Church to oppose Nazism. When was he was sent to a concentration camp?
In 1938.
What year was Dietrich Bonhoeffer (founding member of the confessional churh) killed?
1945
When were 12 Edelweiss pirates hung?
1944
When was the SA founded?
1921
