1. Passmores School History Department Year 11 Germany 1919-1945 Revision Session February Half-Term 2004

2. Germany Revision Session Aims of the session 1.To check the level of factual knowledge that you already have! 2.To give you an opportunity to improve that factual knowledge

3. What is the name of the government system for Germany before World War I?

4. Who was the ruler of Germany during World War I?

5. What name is given to the elected part of the German parliament?

6. What is the name of the agreement signed on 11 th November 1918 to end World War I?

7. What is the name of the peace deal signed in 1919 between Germany and the Allied powers?

8. What did Germany have to pay to Britain, France and Belgium after World War I?

9. What did Germany have to accept in the “War Guilt Clause” of the Treaty of Versailles?

10. What is the name of the new German Government set up after World War I?

11. What is the “Stab in the back” theory?

12. Which communist group tried to seize power in Berlin in January 1919?

13. Who led the communist attempt to seize power in Berlin in January 1919?

14. What was the Freikorps?

15. Who led an attempt by the Freikorps to seize power in Berlin in March 1920?

16. Which political party has the initials KPD?

17. Which political party has the initials SPD?

18. Which political party has the initials DDP?

19. Which political party has the initial Z?

20. Which political party has the initials DVP?

21. Which political party has the initials DNVP?

22. Which political party has the initials NSDAP?

23. What nickname was given to the politicians who signed the Armistice in November 1918?

24. Where did Hitler and the Nazis attempt to seize power in November 1923?

25. Which part of Germany was invaded by France and Belgium in 1923?

26. What is the name given to the economic crisis that followed the French and Belgian invasion of 1923?

27. Why did the German Government print so much money in 1923?

28. Which groups of people made money during the economic crisis of 1923?

29. Who became Chancellor of Germany in 1923 and ended the economic crisis?

30. What is the name of the new currency introduced in 1923 to Germany?

31. What is the name of the deal signed with the USA in 1924 that saw the American lend the Germans 800 million Marks?

32. What did the Germans start to pay again after 1923 in order to get the French and Belgians to leave the Ruhr?

33. Why was the period 1924 to 1929 known as the “Golden Age” of the Weimar Republic?

34. What is the Locarno Treaty of 1925?

35. What is the League of Nations?

36. What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

37. What is the Young Plan?

38. Whose death in 1929 marked the end of the Golden Age of the Weimar Republic?

39. Which event of October 1929 led to the total collapse of the Weimar Republic?

40. To what level did German unemployment rise by 1932?

41. Who was the Chancellor of Germany who proposed raising taxes by 2.5% in 1930 to solve the economic crisis in Germany?

42. Which party resigned from the government in 1930 in protest at attempts to raise taxes and cut wages for government workers?

43. Who was the President of the Weimar Republic first elected in 1925?

44. Under which Article of the Weimar Republic Constitution was the President able to pass laws by decree?

45. Who became Chancellor of Germany in May 1932, despite not having a majority in the Reichstag?

46. In which election did the Nazis first become the largest political party in Germany with 230 MPs?

47. Which general became Chancellor of Germany in November 1932?

48. Who became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, despite the fact that his party had lost 34 MPs in the November 1932 elections?

49. What was the original name of the Nazi Party?

50. How many points were there in the programme written by Hitler and Drexler for the DAP in 1919?

51. Which medal had Hitler won in World War I, in recognition of his bravery and heroism?

52. Which organisation did Hitler set up in the Nazi Party in 1921, to disrupt the meetings of Nazi opponents?

53. Which World War I general did Hitler get to support the attempt of the Nazis to seize power in the Munich Putsch of 1923?

54. Which Italian Fascist was Hitler trying to copy with his attempt to seize power in Munich in 1923?

55. What happened to Hitler after the failure of the Munich Putsch?

56. What is the name of Hitler’s book written in 1924?

57. Which three groups most supported the Nazis in elections?

58. Which two political parties did the working classes support in the Weimar Republic?

59. Give two examples of propaganda techniques used by the Nazis to get themselves elected in the 1920sand 1930s?

60. Why did rich businessmen such as Thyssen and Krupp back the Nazi’s election campaigns with money in the 1930s?

61. What was the Enabling Act of 1933?

62. What event allowed Hitler to make himself into the Fuhrer of Germany in August 1934?

63. Where was the first Nazi concentration camp set up for political prisoners in March 1933?

64. Who was accused of the Reichstag Fire of 27 th February 1933?

65. Who was Hermann Goring?

66. How are the Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act connected?

67. What is the Night of the Long Knives of 30 th June 1934?

68. Who gained from the Night of the Long Knives?

69. Who was Heinrich Himmler?

70. Who was Ernst Rohm?

71. How did Hitler justify the fact that the deaths on the Night of the Long Knives did not follow any arrests of trials of the suspects?

72. What was the Hitler Myth?

73. What were the main aims of the Nazi’s Foreign Policy?

74. Give two examples of areas either occupied or taken over by the Nazis in the 1930s?

75. What was the SS?

76. What was the Gestapo?

77. Who was Joseph Goebbels?

78. What were the Nuremburg Rallies?

79. How did the Nazis use architecture in Germany?

80. What was done to the German education system by the Nazis?

81. What was the Hitler Youth?

82. What was the League of German Maidens?

83. What were the “Edelweiss Pirates”?

84. How much did the Nazis reduce unemployment to in Germany by 1939?

85. What was the Reich Labour Service?

86. How did the Nazis free up millions of Marks for spending of government projects after 1933?

87. What area of German Government spending saw an increase from 3 million Marks in 1933 to 37 million Marks in 1939?

88. What was Autarky?

89. Who was Hjalmar Schact?

90. Who said “In the decisive hour it would not be a question of how much butter Germany has, but how many guns”?

91. What was the German Labour Front?

92. What was meant by the term “Volkgemeinschaft”?

93. What was the SdA or “Beauty of Labour”?

94. What was the KdF or “Strength Through Joy”?

95. Who was Robert Ley?

96. What was the role of women in Hitler’s Germany?

97. What were women given the “Honour Cross” for?

98. Which branch of the Christian Church signed the “Concordat” with the Nazis agreeing to stay out of politics?

99. Which religious group in Germany refused to agree to obey the Nazis?

100. What happened to 1/3 of all Catholic Priests?

101. Who were Martin Neimoller, Deitrich Bonhoffer and Cardinal Galen?

102. Which group did Hitler try to blame for all of Germany’s problems?

103. What is Lebensraum?

104. Which sporting event did the Nazis host in Berlin in 1936 in an attempt to show off the superiority of the Aryan “Race”?

105. What did the Nazis do to books that they disapproved of?

106. How did the Nazis try to stop Germans from listening to foreign radio stations?

107. Why did the Nazis effectively ban contraception and abortions?

108. How did the Nazis turn children against the Jews?

109. What was “The Poisonous Mushroom”?

110. What was Kristallnacht?

111. What was the “Final Solution”?

112. What were the Einzatsgruppen?

113. What did the following groups all have in common: Gypsies, homeless, black people, mentally ill, disabled and homosexuals?

114. What did the Nazis do to women who has a history of genetic illness in their families?

115. Who was Freidrich Ebert?

116. Who was Phillip Scheidemann?

117. Who was Albert Speer?

118. Who was Eva Braun?

119. What is proportional representation?

120. What was Germany banned from having in the Treaty of Versailles?

121. In which country was Hitler born?

122. Which country forced the Kaiser to abdicate at the end of World War I?

123. What law was passed in July 1933 banning all other political parties?

124. What were made illegal in May 1933?

125. What kind of Maths questions did German children do under the new Nazi curriculum after 1933?

126. Which two groups of people were no longer counted on the unemployment register after 1934?

127. Put your hand up if you think you deserve biscuits NOW!