Edexcel History: Weimar and Nazi Germany
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What year did Kaiser Wilhelm Abdicate?
1918
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When was the Armistice signed?
11th November 1918
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When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
28th June 1919
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What was the reparations bill set for Germany?
£6.6bn
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What was the German military limited to
100000 troops, 6 battleships, 6 cruisers, 12 destroyers, 12 torpedo boats
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What were the people who signed the TofV called?
November Criminals
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What was Dolchstoss?
The "stabbed in the back" myth
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What were the weaknesses of proportional representation?
Many parties and coalition governments
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Who was the first President of the Weimar Republic?
Friedrich Ebert
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What party did Ebert belong to?
SPD, German Socialist Party
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Who led the Spartacist Uprising?
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
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Who participated in the Spartacist Uprising?
The KPD - German Communist Party
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When was the Spartacist Uprising?
5th January 1919
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What was the Freikorps?
Right-wing, anti-communist, ex-military soldiers
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Who led the Kapp Putsch?
Wolfgang Kapp
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Who participated in the Kapp Putsch?
Rebel Freikorps
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Who became chancellor of the Weimar Republic in 1923?
Gustav Stresemann
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When was the Munich Putsch?
8th November 1923
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Who led the Munich Putsch?
Adolf Hitler
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What was the Munich Putsch?
Attempt to make Hitler President
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What is the other name for the Munich Putsch?
Beer Hall Putsch
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How long was Hitler sentenced to prison?
5 years
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How long was Hitler actually in prison for?
9 months
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What was the name of the book Hitler wrote in prison?
Mein Kampf, My Struggle
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When was the French invasion of the Ruhr?
January 1923
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What was the Ruhr?
An industrial area in Germany
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Why did the French invade the Ruhr?
France did not receive a German shipment of coal for reparations
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What was hyperinflation?
Government printed more money to pay reparations, Money lost value
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What was the impact of hyperinflation?
Price of goods went up, people lost savings, could not pay reparations
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How much did a loaf of bread cost by 1923?
200,000 billion marks
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What was Stresemann's solution to hyperinflation?
New currency - Rentenmark
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What was the new national bank called?
Reischsbank
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When was the Dawes Plan signed?
April 1924
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What were reparations reduced to in the Dawes plan?
£50m per year
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How much did America loan Germany?
$25bn
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When was the Young Plan signed?
August 1929
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What was the reparations bill reduced to?
£2bn
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When was the Lorcarno Pact agreed?
1st December 1929
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What did the Lorcarno Pact entail?
Permanent DMZ in the Rhineland, Peaceful border between France and Germany
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What was the League of Nations?
International peace keeping organisation after WW1
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When did Germany join the League of Nations?
September 1926
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What did the membership of the LofN show about Germany?
The Weimar Republic was stable, Germany was respected
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When was the Kellogg-Briand Pact signed?
August 1928
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What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
An international agreement not to use war
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When did Ebert die?
February 1925
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Who became President of Weimar after Ebert?
Paul von Hindenburg
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When did Stresemann die?
3rd October 1929
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How many members of the Reichstag were female?
112
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What was the Golden Age of Weimar Germany?
1924 - 1929, Changes in social attittudes, Developments in architecture, Development in film
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What were the names of the two houses in the Weimar Parliament?
Reichstag and Reichstrat
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What was the KPD?
German Communist Party
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What was the SPD?
Social Democratic Party
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What was the NSDAP?
National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi)
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When did Hitler join the DAP?
19th September 1919
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What was the 25 point programme?
The Nazi Party's political manifesto
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When was the 25 point programme introduced?
January 1920
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By how much did Nazi Party membership grow between June 1920 and December 1920?
2000
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What was the logo of the Nazi party?
Swastika
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What was the name of the NSDAP newspaper?
Völkischer Beobachter
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Who did Hitler enrol in the Nazi party leadership?
Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Julius Streicher, Ernst Röhm
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Who were the Brown Shirts?
SA(Sturmabteilung)
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Who was leader of the SA?
Ernst Röhm
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When was the SA formed?
August 1921
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Who was in the SA?
Ex-paramilitary, Unemployed, Students
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How many members were in the SA in 1922?
800
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What was the Stosstrupp?
Hitler's Bodyguard
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How many members were in the Nazi Party in November 1923?
50000
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What was the Schutzstaffel?
SS - Protection squad, Hitler's new personal bodyguard
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Who was the leader of the SS?
Heinrich Himmler
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What was the SS membership by 1930?
3000
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When was the Bamberg conference?
14th February 1926
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What was the Bamberg Conference?
Made clear that Hitler was in charge of the Nazi Party
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What was the Nazi Party membership in 1929?
100000
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When was the Wall Street Crash?
October 1929
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What was the Wall Street Crash?
US stock market collapse
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What was the unemployment rate in 1933?
6.1 million
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Who was chancellor of Germany in 1930 - 1932?
Heinrich Bruning
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What was Article 48?
Rule by decree, Emergency Presidential Powers
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How many seats in the Reichstag did the Nazi party have by July 1932?
230, 38%
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What ware real wages?
The buying power of wages
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What was the SA's membership in 1930?
400000
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When did Franz Von Papen become chancellor?
30th May 1932
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When was Von Papen sacked?
November 1932
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When did Hitler become Chancellor?
30th January 1933
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When was the Reichstag fire?
27th February 1933
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Who claimed responsibility for the Reichstag fire?
Marinus van der Lubbe
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When was the Enabling Act passed?
24th March 1933
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What was the full name for the Enabling Act?
Law for the removal of the distress of the people and the reich
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When did Germany become a single party state?
July 1933
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When was the Night of the Long Knives?
30th June 1934
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How many senior members of the SA were killed on the Night of the Long Knives?
100
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When did Hindenburg die?
2nd August 1934
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What was the name of Hitler's position?
Die Führer
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What was the name of the Secret police?
Gestapo
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Who was leader of the secret police?
Reinhard Heydrich
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What was the name of the first concentration camp?
Dachau
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What was the Concordat?
Peace agreement between the Pope and Hitler
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What does "Mit Brennender Sorge" mean?
With burning anxiety
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In what year was the Reich church set up?
1936
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What were rallies?
Events to promote the Nazis
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