Political Extremism 1919-1923

Question 1

A violent attempt to overthrow the government and replace it with something different.

Answer 1

Putsch

Question 2

Where everyone in the country refuses to go to work until a change is made.

Answer 2

General Strike

Question 3

Someone who believes that the wealth in a country should be owned by the state.

Answer 3

Communist

Question 4

The judges in a country. In Weimar Germany, they tended to be more Right-wing.

Answer 4

Judicary

Question 5

A set of political beliefs that think that order and discipline are more important than equality or welfare. At the extreme end of this area are the Nazi party.

Answer 5

Right-Wing

Question 6

The book Hitler wrote while in prison. It contains a lot of his racist beliefs and ideas on how he thought Germany should be run.

Answer 6

Mein Kampf

Question 7

A type of government where more than one party work together to run the country. In Weimar Germany, these were often unstable as political parties couldn’t agree on decisions.

Answer 7

Coalition

Question 8

Spartacist uprising in Berlin.

Answer 8

January 1919

Question 9

Assassination of Hugo Haase.

Answer 9

October 1919

Question 10

Kapp Putsch.

Answer 10

February 1920

Question 11

Workers’ revolt in Saxony and Thuringia.

Answer 11

April 1920

Question 12

Communist-led revolts in Saxony, Hamburg, and the Ruhr.

Answer 12

March 1921

Question 13

Assassination of Erzberger.

Answer 13

August 1921

Question 14

Assassination of Rathenau.

Answer 14

June 1922

Question 15

Beer Hall Putsch in Munich.

Answer 15

November 1923

Question 16

The German workers’ party becomes the NSDAP

Answer 16

1920

Question 17

Hitler becomes the leader of the NSDAP

Answer 17

1921

Question 18

Hitler plots with Kahr and Lossow to march on Berlin.

Answer 18

September 1923

Question 19

Kahr and Lossow call off the rebellion.

Answer 19

4th October 1923

Question 20

Hitler storms Beer Hall. Forces Kahr and Lossow to join rebellion at gunpoint.

Answer 20

8th November 1923

Question 21

Nazis march into Munich. Met by police. 16 Nazis killed in fighting.

Answer 21

9th November 1923

Question 22

Hitler arrested for his role in the Putsch.

Answer 22

11th November 1923

Question 23

Hitler becomes famous in his trial and writes Mein Kampf in prison.

Answer 23

1924

Question 24

Advocates for democratic socialism as an alternative to capitalism. They are vocally anti-fascist and anti-militarist. (Communists).

Answer 24

Left-Wing

Question 25

An armed uprising in Berlin to overthrow Ebert’s government and set up a revolutionary Communist regime.

Answer 25

Sparticists Uprising

Question 26

Assassinating those who were associated with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Answer 26

Political Assassinations

Question 27

An attempt to seize power from the Weimar Republic by Hitler and the NSDAP.

Answer 27

Munich Putsch (Beer Hall Putsch)