Post WWI

Question 1

How many Germans fought in WWI?

Answer 1

11M

Question 2

How many Germans died in WWI?

Answer 2

2M

Question 3

What were German people forced to survive on?

Answer 3

Turnips and bread

Question 4

What disease was sweeping Germany in 1918?

Answer 4

Flu

Question 5

When did the Kaiser abdicate?

Answer 5

9th November 1918

Question 6

How many war widows?

Answer 6

600,000 (pensions would cost govt a fortune)

Question 7

What was the cost of the war for Germany?

Answer 7

$37,775,000,000 (~$37.8B)

Question 8

Who came into power after the Kaiser abdicated?

Answer 8

Friedrich Ebert

Question 9

What party did Ebert represent?

Answer 9

SPD

Question 10

What did some Germans call the people who signed the Armistice?

Answer 10

November criminals

Question 11

What’s Dolchstoss?

Answer 11

Stab in the back myth

Question 12

Who signed the armistice?

Answer 12

Matthias Erzberger

Question 13

Who assassinated Erzberger in what year?

Answer 13

August 1921
RW terrorist group (Organisation consul)

Question 14

Why did the Kaiser abdicate? (Navy)

Answer 14

Imperial navy mutinied in November 1918. Supported by workers and soldiers, and soon his own generals.

Question 15

Why did the Kaiser abdicate? (democracy) DELETE

Answer 15

General Ludendorff advised the Kaiser that the Allies would treat Germany more gently if they were a democratic country.
So the Kaiser reluctantly shared power with the Reichstag, and new parties were made etc

Question 16

How much did Germany pay in reparations?

Answer 16

£6.6 Billion

Question 17

What was the War Guilt clause?

Answer 17

Article 231
Germany had to accept full responsibility for WWI

Question 18

What was Germany’s army reduced to?

Answer 18

100,000 men

Question 19

How big was Germany’s air force?

Answer 19

Trick question!!!
They couldn’t have an air force!

Question 20

How many colonies in Africa did they lose?

Answer 20

11

Question 21

What land was given to back to France?

Answer 21

Alsace-Lorraine

Question 22

When did Germany originally take Alsace-Lorraine?

Answer 22

1871
Franco-Prussian War

Question 23

What % of its land did Germany lose?

Answer 23

13%

Question 24

How many people lived in the land Germany lost?

Answer 24

6M

Question 25

What happened to the Rhineland in the ToV?

Answer 25

No German troops
Allied troops for 15years

Question 26

Germany lost coalfields in what region?

Answer 26

Saar

Question 27

How was Germany split post WW1?

Answer 27

East Prussia separated from mainland Germany by the Polish Corridor

Question 28

What % of farming land was lost?

Answer 28

15%

Question 29

What % of industrial land was lost?

Answer 29

10%

Question 30

What % of iron reserves was lost?

Answer 30

50%

Question 31

What % of coal reserves was lost?

Answer 31

15%

Question 32

Who took Germany’s African colonies?

Answer 32

Britain

Question 33

Name 2 anti-German slogans that were used in England.

Answer 33

‘Hang the Kaiser’
‘Make Germany pay’

Question 34

Who was the leader of France?

Answer 34

Georges Clemenceau

Question 35

Who was the president of the US?

Answer 35

Woodrow Wilson

Question 36

Who was the PM of Britain?

Answer 36

David Lloyd George

Question 37

Why did Clemenceau want to crush Germany?

Answer 37

-Revenge for deaths and destruction
-To ensure Germany was too weak to attack France

Question 38

Which country suffered the most fatalities out of the Big 3? (Number)

Answer 38

France (1.7M) -incl civilians

Question 39

When did America join WWI?

Answer 39

1917

Question 40

What did Wilson create?

Answer 40

League of Nations