Life in Germany - 1918 to 1945.
GCSE History Quiz.
1)
After defeat in the First World War and the downfall of German ruler
Kaiser William II, Germany became a republic. Was it called...
a)
b)
c)
The New German Republic
The Weimar Republic
The Purple Republic
2)
Between 1919 and 1922 there were two attempts to overthrow the
Weiman Republic. Who attempted a communist uprising?
a)
b)
c)
The Spartacists
The Knights of Borussia
The Kapp Putsch
3)
What was the name of the army group who attempted to overthrow
the Weimar Republic.
a)
b)
c)
Hansa Rostock.
The Kapp Putsch.
The Spartacists.
4)
The Treaty of Versailles of June 1919 ordered Germany to pay
compensation (reparations) as acknowledgement they had cause the
war. How much were they ordered to repay?
a)
b)
c)
£6,600 million
£6 million
£6.66
5)
The Treaty of Versailles ordered Germany to cut its military power. But
which of the following ISN'T true?
a)
b)
c)
Germany was not allowed military aircraft of submarines
The army was reduced to 100,000
German troops had to live in Hungary
6)
Adolf Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party in which year?
a)
b)
c)
1921
1918
1923
7)
a)
b)
c)
Hitler's private army in the Nazi party were known as....
Blackshirts
Brownshirts
Big Girls' blouses
8)
After some difficult years, Germany enjoyed a period of recovery
between 1924 and 1929. From the following list, select four reasons
why this was the case.
a)
b)
There was a fall in unemployment
New roads and railways were built as well as nearly 3 million new
homes
Germany won the 1926 football World Cup
Foreign banks started to lend to German borrowers
New factories were built
Everyone stopped paying taxes
c)
d)
e)
f)
9)
Which of the following were loans from America which helped
Germany out of financial crisis?
a)
b)
c)
The Dawes Plan and the Young Plan
The Weimar Cash Plan
Wonga.com
10)
After the Wall Street Crash had plundered Germany back into
recession, who became the largest party in the Reichstag with 230
seats in 1932?
a)
b)
c)
The Social Democrats
The National Socialists (Nazis)
The German Christians Alliance
11)
What is the Riechstag?
a)
b)
c)
The German national bank
The German legal system
The German parliament
12)
What was the name of Adolf Hitler's book that outlined his plans and
was published in 1925?
a)
b)
c)
Mein Liebling
Mein Kampf
Chow Mein
13)
The Nazi Party used propaganda to put its ideas to the German people.
Who was the Nazi Party's minister of propaganda?
a)
b)
c)
Von Ribbentropp
Joseph Goebbels
Jurgen Klinsmann
14)
In trying to win their votes, what did Adolf Hitler promise German
women?
a)
b)
c)
A special place in their role as mothers and wives
More university places and executive jobs
Better quality dresses and shoes
15)
In which year did Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
a)
b)
c)
1933
1928
1935
16)
After a crime allegedly committed by a Dutch communist called Marius
van der Lubbe, Hitler used this as an excuse to ban his greatest rivals,
the Communist Party. What was the alleged crime?
a)
b)
c)
The Munich beer hall massacre
The Rostock-Cologne train robbery
The Riechstag Fire
17)
In June 1934 Rohm and other leaders of the SA were murdered by the
SS in...
a)
b)
c)
The Dortmund Conspiracy
The Dusseldorf machine gun massacre
The Night of the Long Knives
18)
An act was passed in March 1933 which allowed Hitler to act without
the consent of the Reichstag. What was the name of the act?
a)
b)
c)
The Class Act
The Act of Consent
The Enabling Act
19)
What was the name given to the Nazi secret police?
a)
b)
c)
The Gestapo
The Sandinistas
The Ustasi
20)
In which German city were the 1936 Olympics held?
a)
b)
c)
Dusseldorf
Cologne
Berlin
21)
The 1936 Olympics were supposed to prove the superiority of the
Aryan race. But what was the name of the Black American athlete who
made Hitler furious by winning four gold medals.
a)
b)
c)
Jesse Owens
Jesse James
Steve Cram
22)
From the following five options, pick two groups who opposed and
resisted the Nazi goverment.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
The Berlin Bandits
The Edelweiss Pirates
The Pointy Hat Possee
The White Rose Group
The Daffodil Dudes
23)
What was 'Operation Valkyrie' designed to do in July 1944?
a)
b)
c)
Knock Russia out of WWII.
Assassinate Adolf Hitler
Send more German troops into Poland
24)
Which of the following was NOT a Nazi youth organisation?
a)
b)
c)
The Hitler Youth
The League of German Maidens
The Adolf Assembly
25)
The Nuremburg Laws of 1935 decreed....
a)
b)
c)
That Jews lost the right to be German citizens
That Hitler was to be known as The Fuhrer
That Germany would invade Poland in 1939
26)
In 1938 the SA started a three-day campaign to destroy Jewish shops,
homes and synagogues. The campaign was known as....
a)
b)
c)
The 3-day campaign
The smash and burn campaign
Kristallnacht (Night of broken glass)
27)
In 1942 The Wannsee Conference agreed upon 'The Final Solution.'
What would this plan entail?
a)
b)
c)
The extermination of all Jews in Europe
An invasion that would knock Great Britain out of WWII
Conscription of all school leavers into the German army
28)
What was the name of the Nazi flag/emblem?
a)
b)
c)
The Black Cross
The Ayran Banner
The Swastika
29)
Millions of Jews and other minorities died in the combined death and
concentration camps of Auschwitz and Treblinka. In which country
would you find Auschwitz and Treblinka?
a)
b)
c)
Ukraine
Austria
Poland
30)
Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in which country?
a)
b)
c)
Germany
Austria
Lithuania