Wilhelmine Germany: key dates

Question 1

Kaiser Wilhelm I dies

Answer 1

March 1888

Question 2

Fredrick III dies after being Kaiser for just 99 days

Answer 2

June 1888

Question 3

Fredrick is succeeded by his son Wilhelm II

Answer 3

June 1888

Question 4

Bismarck resigns as chancellor

Answer 4

March 1890

Question 5

Caprivi as chancellor

Answer 5

1890-94

Question 6

Hohenlohe as chancellor

Answer 6

1894-1900

Question 7

major outbreak of cholera in Hamburg - worst of the series of epidemics

Answer 7

1892

Question 8

the SPD was the largest party in the Reichstag.

Answer 8

by 1912

Question 9

the Navy League is created with Tirpitz, secretary of state for the navy since 1897 being an instruemental part of it

Answer 9

1898

Question 10

first Naval Bill that proposed the building of sixteen major ships

Answer 10

1898

Question 11

second naval bill which proposed the building of three battleships a year for the next six years - passed by an even bigger majoritythan the first

Answer 11

1900

Question 12

Britain launches HMS Dreadnaught - a revolution in naval technology

Answer 12

1906

Question 13

Bulow as chancellor

Answer 13

1900-1909

Question 14

Bethmann-Hollwegg as chancellor

Answer 14

1909-1917

Question 15

the Eulenberg Scandal

Answer 15

1907

Question 16

the controversial Daily Telegraph Interview

Answer 16

1908

Question 17

the scandalous death of General von Hulsen Haseler

Answer 17

1908

Question 18

the Zabern Affair

Answer 18

1913

Question 19

assasination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo

Answer 19

28 June 1914

Question 20

German Declaration of war on Russia

Answer 20

1 August 1914

Question 21

German declaration of war on France and invasion of Belgium

Answer 21

3 August

Question 22

British declaration of war on Germany

Answer 22

4 August 1914

Question 23

Austrian declaration of war on Serbia

Answer 23

28 July 1914