Politics 1918-89

Question 1

what percentage of the electorate voted in the first weimar election on 19th Jan 1919

Answer 1

82.7%

Question 2

when was the Ebert-Groener Pact signed? What else happened on this day?

Answer 2

10th November 1918

The Council of People’s Representatives was set up

Question 3

What was the average number of parties in the Reichstag during the 1920s?

Answer 3

29

Question 4

How many political murders happened between 1919-1923?

Answer 4

376

Question 5

when were gauleiter given control of civil defense

Answer 5

1942

Question 6

when was the bureau ribbentrop created?

Answer 6

1934

Question 7

when was the Day of Potsdam?

Answer 7

21st March 1933

Question 8

when was Article 131 added to the Basic Law and what did it say?

Answer 8

may, 1951 - allowed ex-Nazis to join civil service

Question 9

when did Willy Brandt resign and why?

Answer 9

May 1974 - discovered that one of his advisers was a GDR spy

Question 10

when did Schmidt receive a vote of no confidence and why?

Answer 10

1st October 1982 because he couldn’t push his economic policies through - he was SPD but didn’t want to rock the boat so was using more reserved policies