keywords

Question 1

Bundersrat

Answer 1

made up of representatives from each state

Question 2

autocracy`

Answer 2

a system of government by which one person has absolute power (how Kaiser ruled Germany)

Question 3

socialism

Answer 3

a system where wealth and power are shared equally

Question 4

trade union

Answer 4

an organisation of workers designed to protect their interests

Question 5

industrialisation

Answer 5

growth in factories and industry

Question 6

abdicate

Answer 6

to step down from power (as the Kaiser did during WW1)

Question 7

Reichstag

Answer 7

the German parliament

Question 8

militarism

Answer 8

the belief that a country should have strong armed forces and would be prepared to use it aggressively

Question 9

navy laws

Answer 9

series of laws introduced from 1898 to 1912 that expanded the size of the German navy

Question 10

Kaiser

Answer 10

the German emperor

Question 11

constitution

Answer 11

principles/ rules a country has to follow (including people in power)

Question 12

Weimar Republic

Answer 12

Town of Weimar in Germany where the constitution for the new government was created

Question 13

Article 48

Answer 13

In an emergency, the president could make laws without going first to the Reichstag

Question 14

extremist group

Answer 14

holding extreme political views and goals

Question 15

Freikorps

Answer 15

organisation of armed ex-soldier volunteers

Question 16

Putsch

Answer 16

an armed uprising aimed at taking over the government

Question 17

Frederick Ebert

Answer 17

leader of Social Democratic Party

Question 18

disbanded

Answer 18

break up an organised group

Freikorps were disbanded due to ToV -> Kapp Putsch

Question 19

Krupp steel works

Answer 19

the factory at which workers were shot for not working during the Occupation of the Ruhr

Question 20

hyperinflation

Answer 20

severe increase in price of goods at a very high rate

Question 21

Other names for Nazi

Answer 21

‘national socialist’
NSDAP
German Worker’s Party

Question 22

Mein Kampf

Answer 22

Book Hitler wrote in prison which concluded that he would achieve power by destroying the Weimar Republic from the inside

Question 23

consolidate

Answer 23

strengthen/ make permanent

Question 24

dictator

Answer 24

an absolute ruler who answers to no-one

Question 25

dictatorship

Answer 25

a one-party country with a dictator in charge