Who What Where When Why

Question 1

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 1

March 1918 between Germany and USSR, recognizing German victory on Eastern front

Question 2

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 2

June 1919 at Paris Peace Conference after WWI

Question 3

Locarno Treaties

Answer 3

1925 in Locarno between France, Germany, Belgium, Britain, and Italy, to bind Versailles’ conditions of Germany’s western border

Question 4

World Disarmament Conference

Answer 4

1932-1933 at Geneva attended by delegates from 60 countries, to reduce armaments (especially offensive weapons)

Question 5

Germany exits Disarmament Conference and LoN

Answer 5

October 1933

Question 6

Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact

Answer 6

January 1934, Poland is free from French alliance and Hitler is free from Polish threat

Question 7

Night of Long Knives

Answer 7

Starting 30 June 1934, removing Hitler’s opposition and gaining respect

Question 8

Murder of Austrian Chancellor

Answer 8

25 July 1934, Austrian Nazis murder Engelbert Dollfuss inspired by Night of Long Knives

Question 9

Hitler announces open rearmament and conscription

Answer 9

March 1935, against Versailles

Question 10

Stresa Front

Answer 10

Starting April 1935 in Stresa between Italy, France, and Britain

Question 11

Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance

Answer 11

May 1935, due to mutual suspicion of Germany

Question 12

Czech-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance

Answer 12

May 1935, due to mutual suspicion of Germany

Question 13

Anglo-German Naval Agreement

Answer 13

18 June 1935 between Germany and Britain, limiting size of the German navy to that of the Royal British Navy

Question 14

Remilitarization of Rhineland

Answer 14

7 March 1936, of German troops reoccupying the Rhineland

Question 15

Spanish Civil War

Answer 15

1936-1939 between fascist Spaniard rebels and Spanish republican government with foreign aid

Question 16

Rome-Berlin Axis

Answer 16

1936 between Italy and Germany

Question 17

Hossbach Memorandum

Answer 17

5 November 1937 in Berlin between Hitler and his military and foreign policy leadership, meeting regarding Hitler’s aspirations and desired opportunities

Question 18

Anschluss Referendum

Answer 18

April 1938 in Austria by Schuschnigg, on the Austrian question

Question 19

Treaty of Union

Answer 19

12 March 1938 between Seyss-Inquart and Hitler, turning Austria from a sovereign state to a German province

Question 20

Munich Agreement

Answer 20

September 1938 between Italy, France, and Britain, allowing Hitler the Sudetenland but not the rest of Czechoslovakia with concessions

Question 21

Occupation of Czechoslovakia

Answer 21

March 1939 between Hacha and Hitler, occupying and making Czechoslovakia a German ally with military threat

Question 22

Repudiating Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact

Answer 22

April 1939 by Germany, to take Danzig and Corridor

Question 23

Pact of Steel

Answer 23

22 May 1939 between Germany and Italy, formally allied to spook status quo

Question 24

Repudiating 1934 Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact and 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement

Answer 24

28 April 1939 by Germany, as threat to take Danzig and Corridor

Question 25

Nazi-Soviet (Molotov-Ribbentrop) Pact

Answer 25

23 August 1939 between Germany and USSR to prevent Soviet intervention in German invasion of Poland

Question 26

Deadline for Polish diplomat

Answer 26

30 August 1939 by Hitler to Henderson in Berlin, for Polish diplomat who could speak on behalf of Polish government

Question 27

Operation Himmler

Answer 27

Starting night of 31 August 1939 by German soldiers dressed as Polish soldiers, attacking German establishments for sabotage and propaganda as Polish aggression

Question 28

Invasion of Poland

Answer 28

1 September 1939 by Germany