Reverse Ddates

Question 1

Armistice signed…

What did it lead to

Answer 1

11th November 1918
Led to the stab in the back myth - Germany could have won the war had the army not been stabbed in the back by weak politicians who were too cowardly to fight on.

Question 2

Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates…

What replaced him

Answer 2

1918
Weimar republic; democracy and free speach but start off unpopular due to stab in the back myth and has internal weaknesses; proportional representation and article 48

Question 3

Spartacist uprising…

What happened

Answer 3

January 1919
Luxemburg and Liebknecht wanted a socialist uprising, occupied newspaper and communication buildings
The Weimar Government got the Freikorps to attack;
Liebnecht and Luxemburg killed along with 100 other communists

Question 4

Treaty of Versailles….
Terms
Affect on Germany

Answer 4

28th June 1919

Land; lost all colonies (13% of land was removed) Saar –> France
Army; 1.75m –> 100,000, no aircraft/submarines, Rhineland demilitarised
Money; £6.6 billion in reparations
Blame; war-guilt clause

Feel vulnerable, angry and humiliated

Question 5

Kapp Putsch

What happened

Answer 5

March 1920
Kapp and the Freikorps (right wing ex-soldiers) wanted a military right wing dictatorship
Marched to Berlin, took over, Weimar Government were forced to flee
But… the workers went on strike, no water, electricity or transport.
After four days Kapp fled and the Government was reinstated

Question 6

Hitler made head of DAP…

What did he then do

Answer 6

1921

Changes name to National socialist German workers party - also known as the Nazi party and puts out the 25 point program

Question 7

Red Rising in the Ruhr

Answer 7

1920

Communist putsch - crushed by Freikorps and 1000+ killed

Question 8

Year of Crisis

Events

Answer 8

1923
Invasion of the Ruhr, Munich putsch Hyperinflation - Government prints paper money, influx causes the currency to lose it’s worth - prices spiral

Question 9

French invasion of the Ruhr

Answer 9

January 1923
Germans defaulted on reparation payments and claimed they couldn’t pay anymore. French and Belgian forces invade the Ruhr and claim raw materials, Government orders workers to go on passive resistance

Question 10

Munich Putsch
What happened
Successes
Failures

Answer 10

November 1923
Nazis storm a public meeting in a beer hall, force the Kahr of Bavaria at gunpoint to support them, let the Kahr go - he tells the Gov. Nazis are ambushed and 16 killed

+ Platform to spread ideals, established as key right wing figure, ballot not bullet, publicity for later book

• Hitler runs away - coward, can’t speak in public until 1927, 16 Nazis killed

Question 11

Golden years
What happens
How people feel

Answer 11

1924-1929
Gustav Stressemann helps return economic and political stability.
Some people still unhappy - middle class lost life savings, dependant on America, Stressemann - weak

Question 12

The Dawes plan signed…
What it did
How do people feel

Answer 12

1924
Longer to pay and also American loans (invested in infrastructure).
Angry that Government still paying reparations

Question 13

Mein Kampf published

Answer 13

1925

sets out Hitlers ideals,

Question 14

Locarno Treaty…

Answer 14

1925

Sets out borders between countries

Question 15

League of Nations

Answer 15

1926
Involved in international decisions
Stressemann also awarded a Nobel peace prize

Question 16

Kellogg Briand pact

Answer 16

1928
Agree NEVER to go to war with eachother

Goebells put in charge of propoganda

Question 17

1929 early October

Answer 17

Stressemann dies…

Question 18

24th of October 1929

Answer 18

Wall Street Crash; American stock market crashes - reclaim loans made to Germany - firs go bankrupt and millions unemployed
Extreme poverty - public mad at Germans; cut unemployment benefits

Question 19

1929

Answer 19

Stressemann died, Wall street crash

Young plan - longer to pay reparations
Himmler made head of SS

Question 20

1930

Answer 20

Nazis win 107 seat in the Reichstag - desperate people, fear of communisms, charismatic leader, political troubles, weak opposition and propoganda

Question 21

1932

Answer 21

40% of Factory workers unemployed

1 in 4 (6m) Germans unemployed

Question 22

27th February 1933

Answer 22

Reichstage fire - blame on communist Van Der Lubbe, Hitler granted emergancy powers to uses them to arrest communists (and other groups who oppose the Nazis)

The Communist party was
made illegal

Question 23

5th March 1933

Answer 23

Elections; Nazis won 52% of the vote - best yet; propaganda ad attack opposition (SA)
22m Germans don’t vote for him

Question 24

24th March 1933

Answer 24

Enabling Act; end of democracy

Hitler can pass laws without the Reichstags permission

Question 25

May 1933

Answer 25

Trade unions taken over -DAF

Question 26

July 1933

Answer 26

One party state; only the Nazi party allowed

Question 27

1933

Answer 27

1st concentration camp, marriage loans, boycott of Jewish businesses,

Concordat; agreement between Nazis and the Church

Von Papen deal; tries to capitalize on Nazi success - coalition - Papen vice chancellor and Hitler chancellor.
Thought he could control Hitler

Question 28

30th June 1934

Answer 28

The night of the long knives;
Ernst Rohm and 400 SA leaders murdered.
Rohm kept demanding the SA and army be merged-army leaders wanted Hitler to act. Already potential opposition; SA was powerful (bigger than the army)

Question 29

August 1934

Answer 29

Hindenburg dies; Hitler assigns himself Fuhrer (supreme leader)
Oath of loyalty

Question 30

1934

Answer 30

Night of the Long Knives, Hindenburg died, Oath of loyalty

Triumph of the Will; propaganda film

Question 31

5th September 1935

Answer 31

Nuremberg laws; non Jews and Jews can’t marry. Jews no longer German citizens.
Legalised racism; public aggression and first efforts to separate populations

Question 32

1936

Answer 32

Four year plan

Himmler made chief of German police

Question 33

9th-10th November 1938

Answer 33

Kristallnacht - Nazi supporters encouraged to smash up Jewish shops & synagogues, 91 Jews killed.
Active discrimination –> physical violence

Question 34

1st September 1939

Answer 34

World War two declared

Warsaw ghetto sealed off

70% of Germans own a radio

Question 35

1941

Answer 35

First Extermination camp

Euthanasia program ended

Death’s head unit set up

Question 36

1942

Answer 36

Final solution

Question 37

1943

Answer 37

Warsaw ghetto uprising

White Rose group leaders executed; handed out leaflets

Question 38

20th July 1944

Answer 38

July Bomb plot - army officers attempt to blow up Hitler

5000 people executed in response

Question 39

6th June 1944

Answer 39

D-Day