Key Issue 1 (1919 - Jan 1933)

Question 1

Stresemann

Answer 1

Foreign minister 1923-29, Chancellor Aug-Nov 1923

Question 2

Dawes Plan

Answer 2

1924 reduction of annual reparations plus 800 million marks loaned to Germany
Payments extended to end in 1988

Question 3

Hyperinflation

Answer 3

Quickly accelerating inflation

Question 4

Rentenmark

Answer 4

Currency to stop inflation issued Nov 1923, based on the Gold Standard

Question 5

Reichsmark

Answer 5

Currency replacing the Rentenmark from 1924 to 1945

Question 6

Young Plan

Answer 6

1929 devise to follow the Dawes plan which never happened due to the Great Depression
Reparations were to be reduced by 20%

Question 7

Ruhr Occupation

Answer 7

Jan 1923 occupation of the Ruhr by French and Belgian forces due to missing a reparation payment
(Ruhr rich in coal)

Question 8

Munich Putsch

Answer 8

1923 attempt by Adolf Hitler to seize power, resulting in Hitler imprisoned for 6 Months and writing Mein Kampf

Question 9

Spartacist Uprising

Answer 9

1919 left wing strike led by communists Liebknecht and Luxemburg which was brutally suppressed

Question 10

Ruhr Uprising

Answer 10

1920 left wing revolt as a response to the Kapp Putsch

Question 11

Kapp Putsch

Answer 11

1920 right wing attempted coup

Question 12

1925 Fna Treaties

Answer 12

Germany’s borders being respected by neighbouring European countries

Question 13

1926 League Of Nations

Answer 13

Germany was seen as co-operative in the ToV, so was accepted in, becoming one of the most powerful

Question 14

Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928

Answer 14

The agreement that all disputes would be resolved peacefully

Question 15

Who was Gropius?

Answer 15

Founder of the Bauhaus art movement

Question 16

Why did occupation of the Ruhr end?

Answer 16

Fully ended Aug 1925 - Dawes Plan showed economic stability

Question 17

What was Article 48 of the Weimar constitution?

Answer 17

President can rule by emergency decree if deemed necessary

Question 18

Why was proportional representation a problem in Weimar Germany?

Answer 18

It always delivered an unstable co-oalition with multiple parties

Question 19

Name the left wing parties in the Weimar Republic. (Bottom is most left wing)

Answer 19

DDP (German Democrats)
SPD (Social Democrats)
USPD (Ind. Social Dems)
KPD (Communist)

Question 20

Name the right wing parties in the Weimar Republic. (Bottom is most right wing)

Answer 20

DVP (Stress.) (People’s)
BVP (Bavarian’s People’s)
DNVP (National People’s)
NSDAP (Nazi)

Question 21

Who was assassinated by a right wing terrorist?

Answer 21

Erzberger (from the Centre Party) and Walter Rathenau (Jewish foriegn minister)

Question 22

Name two socially conscious painters in Weimar.

Answer 22

Grosz and Otto Dix

Question 23

Which sector of the economy suffered under Stressmann?

Answer 23

Agriculture - by 1929 agricultural input was 75% less than 1913

Question 24

What was the Backstairs Intrigue?

Answer 24

Plan to use Hitler as a puppet by Von Papen and Hindenburg

Question 25

What were the consequences of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 in Germany?

Answer 25

The US recalls its Dawes Plan Money Many are left unemployed, shops close down (34% jobless in Jan 1933) Extreme vote share increases (Nazi and KPD)

Question 26

How quickly did Hitler and the Nazis increase their vote share in between elections?

Answer 26

12 seats (May 1928) 107 seats (Sep 1930) 230 seats (July 1932)

Question 27

When did Hitler become the leader of the Nazi Party?

Answer 27

29 July 1921- two years after joining in 1919

Question 28

What was the Rapallo Treaty?

Answer 28

An April 1922 peace treaty which normalises Russian-German relations