Political impact from the depression

Question 1

Why does the grand coalition collapse

Answer 1

Parties couldn’t agree on the state budget

Question 2

Who wanted to reduce the unemployment budget

Answer 2

DVP

Question 3

Who wanted to protect benefits and raise taxes

Answer 3

SPD

Question 4

When did Chancellor Muller resign

Answer 4

March 1930

Question 5

Who becomes chancellor after Muller

Answer 5

Bruning

Question 6

Who choses Bruning to become chancellor

Answer 6

Hindenburg

Question 7

Who influenced Hindenburg’s decision

Answer 7

Groener and Schleicher

Question 8

Why did Groener and Schleicher want to influence Hindenburg over the chancellor

Answer 8

Army was starting to play a little bit of a role in politics and Bruning had authoritarian learnings so believed it would be an authoritarian style rule

Question 9

Who did Bruning’s coalition exclude

Answer 9

SPD

Question 10

What was the issue with not having the SPD in Brunings coalition

Answer 10

Meant the government did not have enough support to pass laws in Reichstag

Question 11

How did Bruning get laws passed in his grand coalition

Answer 11

By presidential decree

Question 12

What did Brunings coalition do to help the budget

Answer 12

Cut expenditure and raise taxes

Question 13

How many times was presidential decree used to pass laws in 1932

Answer 13

66

Question 14

What did the SPD do in retaliation to Brunings grand coalition

Answer 14

Raised a motion to withdraw the decree and got the support to do so

Question 15

What did Bruning call for on September 1930

Answer 15

Dissolve Reichstag and called for a re-election

Question 16

How did the election in September 1930 go

Answer 16

A lot more people started to vote for extremist political parties

Question 17

How many votes did the Nazis receive in the 1930 election

Answer 17

Around 6.5 million, this works out at around 2 in 5 voters

Question 18

Where had the political power shifted to since Reichstag became unmanageable

Answer 18

The president

Question 19

Between 1924 and 1929 how many Nazis were lost in street clashes

Answer 19

29

Question 20

Between 1924 and 1929 how many communists were lost in street clashes

Answer 20

92

Question 21

What was the issue with the red front fighters league and the Nazi stormtroopers

Answer 21

They liked to break up meetings and marches of each other especially at election times

Question 22

When did Bruning ban political uniform

Answer 22

December 1931

Question 23

When did Bruning ask Hindenburg to ban the SA through presidential decree

Answer 23

April 1932

Question 24

What was the membership of the SA by 1932

Answer 24

400,000