Nazi Germany (Wiemar years/golden years)

Question 1

What date was the armistice signed?

Answer 1

11th November 1918

Question 2

What happened to the kaiser?

Answer 2

He fled the country

Question 3

Who were the ‘November criminals’

Answer 3

The government/Wiemar republic or people who signed the armistice

Question 4

Who did many Germans blame for the loss of the first world war?

Answer 4

The government or Wiemar republic

Question 5

What was signed on 28th June 1919?

Answer 5

The treaty of Versailles

Question 6

What does Lamb stand for?

Answer 6

Land, army, money, blame

Question 7

What was the stab in the back myth?

Answer 7

The idea that the government signed the armistice while the soldiers believed they were winning the war, therefore the soldiers were betrayed.

Question 8

What % of land did Germany have to give up?

Answer 8

13%

Question 9

How many soldiers were the German army reduced to?

Answer 9

100,000

Question 10

How much money in reparations did Germany have to pay?

Answer 10

$6.6 billion

Question 11

What was the war guilt clause?

Answer 11

that Germany had to admit all responsibility for the causing of WW1

Question 12

What was proportional representation?

Answer 12

Where votes were counted as a percentage. The system that was used in Germany at the time.

Question 13

When did the Spartacist uprising take place?

Answer 13

1919

Question 14

What was the Spartacist uprising?

Answer 14

• Left wing group led by Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht
• Similar beliefs to communism
• Ebert left Berlin
• Freikorps fought against the uprising
• Both leaders killed

Question 15

Who were the Freikorps?

Answer 15

They were mainly veterans

Question 16

What is a putsch?

Answer 16

an attempted revolution or an uprising

Question 17

When was the Munich putsch?

Answer 17

1923

Question 18

What was the Munich putsch?

Answer 18

• Hitler led the party
• 50,000 members (SA)
• Planned to set up government and overtake Munich
• Poor planning meant it failed
• Hitler sent to prison (9 months, mien kampf)

Question 19

Who occupied the Ruhr in 1923?

Answer 19

French, overtook when Germany failed to pay reparations

Question 20

What was hyperinflation?

Answer 20

Where the deutchmark lost all its value as too much money was printed to pay reparations

Question 21

What was the period of 1924-29 known as?

Answer 21

The golden period, Stresemann years

Question 22

Who took advantage of hyperinflation?

Answer 22

Hitler took advantage in later years and used it to get himself voted in.

Question 23

What was the new currency that Stresemann brought in?

Answer 23

Rentamark

Question 24

When was the Dawes plan initiated?

Answer 24

1924

Question 25

What was the Dawes plan?

Answer 25

The Dawes plan was negotiated by Stresemann. It meant Germany had longer to pay off reparations and brought in USA loans. This was used to recycle it back into the country.

Question 26

What were the problems with the Dawes plan?

Answer 26

Caused Germany to be over dependent on the USA. Dancing on a volcano. Great depression after WSC

Question 27

What was signed in 1925 to improve foreign relations?

Answer 27

Locarno pact

Question 28

What happened in 1926 to further Germany’s international status?

Answer 28

Joining of the league of nations

Question 29

What was signed in 1928?

Answer 29

Kellogg-Briand pact

Question 30

What did the KB pact mean?

Answer 30

was an agreement by 66 countries saying they wouldn’t go to war on a global basis again

Question 31

What did the locarno pact do?

Answer 31

It defined the borders across Europe