Key names/dates/events Flashcards
Who were the leaders of the Spartacists?
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
Who were the Freikorps?
Paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I.
Who was the leader of the Kapp Putsch?
Dr Wolfgang Kapp.
Who were the SA?
The private political army of the Nazi party, also known as the ‘Brownshirts.’ Nazi ‘Stormtroopers’
Who was Friedrich Ebert?
The first president of the Weimar Republic, he was leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Who was Hugo Hasse?
A German socialist politician, he co-chaired the Council of the People’s Deputies after the German Revolution and was later murdered as a result.
Who was Matthias Erzberger?
A German publicist and politician who signed the German surrender in 1918.
Who was the Anton Drexler?
The leader of the German Workers Party (DAP).
Who was Gustav Stresemann? (2)
He became chancellor of Germany in 1923.
He became foreign minister in 1926.
What was the name of the book Hitler wrote in 1925?
Mein Kampf.
Who were the SS?
Hitlers protection squad. They were totally loyal to Hitler and were his bodyguards, he did not fully trust the SA. ‘Blackshirts’
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II?
Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor, he ruled the German empire before his abdication in 1918.
Who was Joseph Goebbels?
Reich minister of propaganda and public enlightenment.
Who was Ernest Rohm? (2)
The leader of the SA.
Changed alliance because Hitler refused to give him more control over the SA, murdered during the night of the long knives.
Who was Rudolph Hess?
Orchestrator social policies surrounding the Jews.
