Germany in Transition 1919 – 1939 Knowledge Check the Impact of Th
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Germany in Transition 1919 – 1939 Knowledge Check 1 The Weimar Republic was what form of government? 2 What was Proportional Representation? 3 What was Article 48? 4 When was the Treaty of Versailles signed? 5 How much did Germany have to pay in Reparations? 6 What did the war guilt clause state? 7 What type of rebellion was the Spartacist Uprising? 8 When did the Spartacist Uprising take place? 9 What type of rebellion was the Kapp Putsch? 10 Why did the Kapp Putsch fail? 11 Who were the Freikorps?
12 What did Germany fail to do in 1922? 13 Who invaded Germany in 1923? 14 True or False: The German workers fought back 15 What did the Government do to help the workers? 16 What economic effect did this lead to in Germany in 1923? 17 How many German marks was £1 worth in November 1923? 18 Which groups suffered the most in 1923? 19 Which groups benefitted the most in 1923? 20 Who was appointed Chancellor
The Impact of the First WorldWar in the summer of 1923?
1 What plan was agreed to fix the
German economy in 1924? 2 What did the USA agree to give to Germany in order to help them? 3 What were done to the reparations payments? 4 What is the name of the currency that was introduced to Germany? 5 When was the Young Plan introduced? 6 What did the Young Plan do to
The Recovery of Weimar reparations payments? 7 What is the period 1924 – 29 known as for Weimar? 8 Why is Weimar’s recovery between 1924-29 questioned? 9 When was the Locarno Pact? 10 Who was the Locarno Pact with? 11 What did the Locarno Pact agree? 12 When did Germany join the League of Nations? 13 What position was Germany given when it joined the League of Nations? 14 What pact did Germany sign in 1928? 15 What was agreed by this pact in 1928? 16 Who was Germany’s Foreign Minister between 1924 – 29? 17 Which political party was the most popular in Germany between 1924-29? 18 What types of employment did women enter between 24-29? 19 What was the Bauhaus? 20 Who was the leading German director of the Golden Age of German cinema?
1 Who started the Nazi Party? 2 Why did Hitler first join the Nazi Party? 3 What was Hitler’s first job in the Party? 4 What is the 25 point programme? 5 When did Hitler become leader of the Nazi Party? 6 What is the SA? 7 What was the job of the SA? 8 Which event did Hitler plan in 1923? 9 What was Hitler put on trial for? 10 What did Hitler decide whilst in Prison? 11 What did Hitler write in Prison? 12 When did the Wall Street Crash Happen? 13 What was the major impact of the Wall Street Crash on Germany 14 How did the Nazis take advantage of the Wall Street
The Nazi rise to power and the end of the Weimar Republic Crash 15 What did the Nazis promise people during the Great Depression? 16 What was Hitler’s main talent in getting people to support the Nazis? 17 Which groups gave funds to the Nazis that helped their campaigns? 18 Why did the middle and upper class support the Nazis? 19 How did the SA help gain support for the Nazis? 20 How many Seats did the Nazis win in 1930? 21 How many seats did the Nazis win in July 1932? 22 How many seats did the Nazis win in November 1932? 23 How the government of Bruning (1930 – 32) try and solve the Depression? 24 Why did President Hindenburg not like Hitler? 25 What did Franz von Papen think he could do to Hitler? 26 When was Hitler appointed Chancellor?
1 When was the Reichstag Fire? 2 Who was blamed for the Reichstag Fire? 3 What is the decree for protection of people and state? 4 What did Hitler do to the Communists after the Reichstag Fire? 5 How many seats did the Nazis win in March 1933? 6 What did the Enabling Act do? 7 When did Hitler ban Trade Unions?
8 What did the Law against the Formation of Parties in July 1933 do? 9 When did the Night of the Long Knives Happen? 10 Who was the target of the Night of the Long Knives? 11 Whose support was Hitler trying to get on the Night of the Long Knives? 12 What did the Army have to
Consolidation of Power swear to Hitler? 13 What title did Hitler give himself on the death of Hindenburg? 14 When did Hitler become absolute dictator of Germany?
1 What is the RAD? 2 Which age group was the RAD aimed at? 3 What did Public Works programmes build? 4 When was conscription reintroduced? 5 What is invisible unemployment? 6 What is the DAF? 7 What did the DAF replace? 8 What is the KdF? 9 When was the Volkswagen scheme introduced? 10 What was unemployment in Germany at in 1939? 11 What was the Nazi view of the role of women? 12 What are the 3ks? 13 What did the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage offer for having children? 14 How many children did you need to have to get a Gold Motherhood Cross? 15 What was the Lebensborn (Life Springs) program? 16 Why did Hitler view education as important? 17 What did teachers have to
belong to? 18 How much of the timetable was given over to PE? 19 What types of lessons did boys focus on? 20 What types of lessons did girls focus on? 21 What was the Hitler Youth? 22 What was the League of German Maidens? 23 When did membership of the Hitler Youth become compulsory? 24 What are Aryans? 25 What are Untermenshen? 26 What was the first law passed against Jews? 27 When were the Nuremberg
Nazi Economic, Social racial and Policy Laws? 28 What did the first part of the Nuremberg Laws do? 29 What event caused the Nazis to lower anti-Jewish activity? 30 When did Kristallnacht take place? 31 What happened on Kristallnacht? 32 What was done to the Jews as a punishment for Kristallnacht?
1 What were the Gestapo? 2 What did the SS do? 3 What were the first Concentration Camps for? 4 What was the People’s Court for? 5 What was a Gau? 6 Who appointed all the local and regional leaders? 7 Where did the Nazi Mass Rallies take place? 8 What did the Nazis make cheap to buy and put in every workplace/office/public space?
9 What types of music/art did the Nazis not approve of? 10 What did the Nazis do with the books they censored? 11 What was the policy of Gleichsahcultung? 12 What are the SD? 13 How many different categories of prisoner did the Nazis have at the Concentration Camp? 14 Who was in charge of Nazi
Terror and Persuasion Propaganda?
1 What were Hitler’s main Foreign Policy Aims? 2 What did Hitler demand at the disarmament conference in
1933? 3 Why did Hitler’s attempt at Anschluss in 1934 fail? 4 When did Hitler announce Conscription? 5 What is the Stresa Front? 6 When did Hitler remilitarise the Rhineland? 7 What did the reoccupation of the Rhineland encourage Hitler to do?
Hitler’s Foreign Policy 8 What is the Rome Berlin Axis? 9 When was the Anti--Comintern Pact signed? 10 Which countries signed the Anti-Comintern Pact? 11 When did Hitler attempt his second Anschluss with Austria? 12 Why did the second Anschluss work? 13 What policy towards Germany did Britain and France follow with the Anschluss? 14 What are of Czechoslovakia did Hitler demand in in the 1938? 15 What made the Czech Crisis different compared to Hitler’s other demands? 16 What was the name of the Conference that solved the Czech Crisis? 17 What was the outcome of the Conference? 18 When did Hitler invade the rest of Czechoslovakia? 19 What area of Poland did Hitler demand in 1939? 20 What was the Pact of Steel? 21 What did the Nazis sign with Russia in August 1939? 22 What did the Pact agree? 23 When did Germany invade Poland? 24 What did Britain and France do in response to the German invasion of Poland?