war

Question 1

who did speer replace?

Answer 1

todt

Question 2

when did britain start preparing for war?

Answer 2

1936

Question 3

when did the usa join the war?

Answer 3

dec 1941

Question 4

introduction of the truman doctrine

Answer 4

1947

Question 5

establishment of a marxist-leninist party in the east

Answer 5

1949

Question 6

end of the berlin blockade

Answer 6

12 may 1949

Question 7

% of civil servants in the west with nazi pasts

Answer 7

est 60%

Question 8

proportion of the population that were fatherless after the war

Answer 8

1/4

Question 9

german ww2 casualties

Answer 9

4.3 million

Question 10

% of national income from marshall aid

Answer 10

5%

Question 11

when were german pows brought home from the ussr?

Answer 11

1955

Question 12

how much east german industry had been nationalised by 1949?

Answer 12

76%

Question 13

east german school reform 1946

Answer 13

law for the democratisation of schools- abolition of private and religious schools,
expansion of pre schools

Question 14

no of women who left their jobs pre-war

Answer 14

360k

Question 15

why did currency reform happen?

Answer 15

to end inflation and create a more stable currency- incompetence in nazi economic planning, black market

Question 16

uk vs germany military spending 1939

Answer 16

1/3 germany vs 1/2 uk

Question 17

meat ration 1939 vs 1945

Answer 17

750 vs 250g/week

Question 18

evidence of lack of cooperation between east and west

Answer 18

stalin not being properly consulted on currency reform

Question 19

when did speer become minister of armaments?

Answer 19

feb 1942

Question 20

what % of the workforce was working on war related projects by 1941?

Answer 20

55%

Question 21

1939-41 increase in plane production, 42-3 increase

Answer 21

2k- which is not a lot apparently

11k- which is a lot apparently

Question 22

2 changes speer made

Answer 22

stopped conscription of skilled workers, closed non essential businesses as part of ‘total war’

Question 23

dresden- year and death toll

Answer 23

1945, 2.5k

Question 24

berlin airlift- no of planes and average calories

Answer 24

1 per minute by april, 2300

Question 25

number of people conscripted

Answer 25

4 million

Question 26

no killed after the stauffenburg plot

Answer 26

5k

Question 27

when was the deutschemark introduced

Answer 27

june 1948

Question 28

peak of tank production

Answer 28

1944, 19k

Question 29

what did speer set up in 1942 and why was it useful?

Answer 29

central planning board, co ordinated production- e.g. by using prison labour and women being employed

Question 30

total arms production increase due to speer

Answer 30

49%

Question 31

weaknesses of the war economy

Answer 31

- cost for ordinary people- sacrificed quality of life/consumer goods for total war - allied bombing destroyed infrastructure such as railways - new territory not exploited - demands of total war never met, production below its potential

Question 32

example of organisations that controlled the war economy

Answer 32

- economy and armaments office - ministry for armaments - economic ministry

Question 33

what percentage of target did oil production reach in 1942?

Answer 33

45%

Question 34

number of small businesses that went bankrupt in the runup to war

Answer 34

300k

Question 35

how much did speer increase tank output?

Answer 35

97%

Question 36

when was bonhoffer banned from preaching?

Answer 36

1940

Question 37

when/why clothes rationing was ended

Answer 37

1943 because the government no longer manufactured clothes

Question 38

why didn't production reach its full potential under speer?

Answer 38

- goods stolen from new land | - bombing meant resources had to be diverted

Question 39

name and problems with nazi regional management due to the war

Answer 39

gauleiters | stopped speer's policy from being carried out

Question 40

% of property destroyed in dresden

Answer 40

70

Question 41

weapons developed near the end of the war

Answer 41

v1 and v2 rockets

Question 42

destruction of housing from bombing

Answer 42

20% destroyed and 30% damaged

Question 43

cost of importing food

Answer 43

$700 mil/yr