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6. When was the reichstagg fire?

  • 27th February 1933
  • 27th May 1933
  • 27th March 1933
  • 27th June 1933

7. Who led the Spartacist uprising (5th January-12 January 1919)?

  • Gustav stresseman
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
  • Paul Von Hindenburg

8. How did Hitler make a dictatorship ?

  • He merged the chancellorship and the presidency
  • He had the former president killed
  • He held a putsch to take control over the government

9. What was a weakness of the Weimar constitution?

  • Women were not aloud a government position
  • Chancellor had as much power as president
  • Article 48 was not specific enough meaning it could have been used for anything
  • Only aryan men were aloud to vote

10. When was the night of long knives ?

  • 29th-30th March 1934
  • 29th-30th June 1934
  • 29th-30th September 1934
  • 29th-30th August 1934

11. When did hyperinflation reach it’s peak?

  • November 1923
  • November 1919
  • March 1935
  • October 1921

12. What year were women given the vote in Weimar Germany?

  • 1900
  • 1933
  • 1919
  • 1925

13. What is it called when left wing supporters try to take over the government?

  • An uprising
  • A putsch

14. Which of the following was a term of the treaty of Versailles

  • Germany was never again aloud to unite Austria
  • Germany’s government had to be run by the British
  • Had to pay reparations of 2.2 billion pounds
  • Their army was limited to 50,000 men

15. What was the date German officials signed the ‘Armistice’?

  • 8 March 1919
  • 11 November 1918
  • 1 July 1918
  • 1 January 1918

16. What is it called when right wing supporters try to take over the government?

  • A putsch
  • An uprising

17. Which of the following is not a foreign policy aim?

  • To establish a relationship with Britain and France
  • Unite all German speaking people
  • To destroy communism
  • Expand into the west to gain more land

18. Who led the Kapp Putsch (March 1920)

  • Adolf Hitler
  • Dr Wolfgang Kapp
  • Robert Kapp
  • Frank Von Papen

19. What was the Weimar constitution?

  • Germanys new democracy set up after WW1
  • A small town in Germany
  • A new German sandwich
  • The new dictatorship being set up in Germany

20. When was the Enabling act passed?

  • 23rd February 1923
  • 23rd March 1923
  • 23rd December 1923
  • 23rd August 1923