HSC Germany Quiz

Question 1

What was the name given to the agreement between the Nazis and the Catholic church?

Accepted Answer

The Concordat

Question 2

Who were the SS?

Accepted Answer

Elite Nazi soldiers

Question 3

What article in the Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for the war?

Accepted Answer

231

Question 4

What is the name given to the voting system in Weimar Germany?

Accepted Answer

Proportional Representation

Question 5

Which side of politics were the NSDAP on?

Accepted Answer

Right

Question 6

Which event ended the policy of appeasement?

Accepted Answer

Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Question 7

How much money was loaned to German couples when they got married in Nazi Germany?

Accepted Answer

1000 marks

Question 8

Which side of politics were the KPD on?

Accepted Answer

Left

Question 9

What was the name of the Chancellor that stabilised the economy after hyperinflation?

Accepted Answer

Stresemann

Question 10

Where is this image from?

Accepted Answer

The Poisonous Mushroom

Question 11

What type of art flourished during Weimar Germany?

Accepted Answer

Expressionism

Question 12

Who was blamed for burning down the Reichstag?

Accepted Answer

KPD

Question 13

The Nazis saw which of the following to be the most effective form of propaganda?

Accepted Answer

Radio

Question 14

What was gleischaltung?

Accepted Answer

Synchronisation of German society to match Nazi ideology

Question 15

What was the 'stab in the back' legend?

Accepted Answer

The betrayal of the men who signed the armistice

Question 16

When did WWII start?

Accepted Answer

September 1939

Question 17

What was 'Kinder, Kurche Kuche'?

Accepted Answer

Nazi policy for women

Question 18

Why were the British surprised by the Nazi non-aggression pact with Poland?

Accepted Answer

Poland had possession of the Polish Corridor

Question 19

Who was Joseph Goebbels?

Accepted Answer

Minister for Propaganda and Enlightenment

Question 20

Who were the Freikorps?

Accepted Answer

Group of ex-army members - paramilitary

Question 21

What was the policy of appeasement?

Accepted Answer

Britain's policy towards Germany which involved compromise

Question 22

Which of the following was popular/allowed during Nazi Germany?

Accepted Answer

Wagner

Question 23

Who was the last president of Germany prior to WWII?

Accepted Answer

Paul von Hindenburg

Question 24

What was the name given to the first Nuremburg law restricting Jews in Nazi Germany?

Accepted Answer

Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour

Question 25

How long was Hitler sentenced to after the Munich Beerhall Putsch?

Accepted Answer

5 years

Question 26

What was the name of the plan that said Germany only had to pay the reparations it could afford

Accepted Answer

Dawes Plan

Question 27

What happened to books that were considered un-German?

Accepted Answer

Burnt

Question 28

What was the name of the Nazi program to provide leisure time for German workers?

Accepted Answer

Strength Through Joy

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT a resistance group that rallied against the Nazis?

Accepted Answer

Spartacists

Question 30

Which side of politics were the DDP on?

Accepted Answer

Centre

Question 31

What was the main cause of hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 32

What was the name of the defence minister who utilised the Freikorps to prevent uprisings?

Accepted Answer

Gustav Noske

Question 33

During the Weimar period, in which entertainment field did Germany become a world leader?

Accepted Answer

Film

Question 34

What caused the French occupation of the Ruhr?

Accepted Answer

Germany's failure to meet reparations payments

Question 35

What is depicted in this image?

Accepted Answer

Nuremburg Rally

Question 36

What was the name of the design school from Weimar Germany?

Accepted Answer

Bauhaus

Question 37

The nazi regime was deliberately chaotic to encourage subordinates to compete. This is:

Accepted Answer

Intentionalist

Question 38

What was the Locarno Treaty?

Accepted Answer

Guaranteed the borders of western Europe

Question 39

What happened to Rosa Luxemburg

Accepted Answer

Murdered by the Freikorps

Question 40

What was the Night of the Long Knives?

Accepted Answer

Purge of the SA

Question 41

What was the name of the temporary currency introduced after hyperinflation?

Accepted Answer

Rentenmark

Question 42

What clause weakened the Weimar constitution?

Accepted Answer

Article 48

Question 43

Where is the Sudetenland?

Accepted Answer

Czechoslovakia

Question 44

Which side of politics were the SPD on?

Accepted Answer

Left

Question 45

Which side of politics were the DVP on?

Accepted Answer

Right

Question 46

What was the Kapp Putsch?

Accepted Answer

Right wing uprising

Question 47

According to the Nazis, what was the aim of education?

Accepted Answer

Indocrination

Question 48

What was the name of the Chancellor that helped Hitler come to power?

Accepted Answer

von Papen

HSC Germany Quiz

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