NKS GCSE WR and Nazis Dates test

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When was the Republic first declared

(exact)?

9/11/1918

2.

The Spartakist Rising (month/year)

January
1919

3.

The Bavarian Soviet Republic (month/year)

April 1919

4.

The Treaty of Versailles (month/year)

June 1919

Hitler joined the German Workers Party

(month/year)

September
1919

28.

Party Programme (setting out Nazi

ideology) announced by Nazis
(month/year)

February
1920

29.

Kapp Putsch (month/year)

March
1920

Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party

(month/year)

July 1920

The Occupation of the Ruhr (month/year)

January
1923

1.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

Hitler refused the Vice

Chancellorship (month/year)

August 1932 (after the

election in July 1932
where the Nazis won
230 seats)

The year there were three

Chancellors

1932 (Bruning resigned

May, Papen resigned
Nov, Schleicher resigned
Jan 1933)

Hitler became chancellor

(exact)

30/1/1933

The Shooting Decree (exact

date)

17/2/1933

The Reichstag Fire (exact)

27/2/1933

The Reichstag Fire Decree

(exact)

28/2/1933

32.

The 1933 Election (exact)

5/3/1933

33.

The Enabling Act (exact)

23/3/1933

The Trades Unions were

dissolved (month/year)

May 1933

The Republic became a one

party state (exact date)

14/7/1933

The Concordat was ratified

(month/year)

July 1933

The Night of the Long Knives

(exact)

30/6/1934

The law combining the offices

of chancellor and president
(exact date) to make Hitler the
'Fuehrer'.

1/8/1934

The death of Hindenburg

(exact)

2/8/1934

The Army Oath started to be

taken from (month/year)

August 1934

The New Plan for economic

recovery began(month/year)

September 1934

Conscription and the Luftwaffe

were announced (year)

1935

The remilitarisation of the

Rhineland (month/year)

March 1936

The Four Year Plan for

rearmament began (year)

1936

Anschluss (month/year)

March 1938

The Munich Conference

(month/year)

September 1938

The month that the Nuremburg

rallies were held every year.

September

26.

27.

30.
31.

Passive Resistance was ended

(month/year)

September
1923

34.

11.

The Munich Putsch (exact) - over 2 days

89/11/1923

35.

12.

Hitler was Imprisoned (Month/year)

April 1924

36.

13.

The Dawes Plan (year)

1924

Ebert died and Hindenburg became

president (year)

1925

The Locarno Treaty was agreed (year)

1925

The last election that the Nazis won 12 seats

(year)

1928

The Young Plan and the Right Wing Front

(year)

1929

39.

Death of Stresemann (month/year)

October
1929

40.

The Wall Street Crash - Black Tuesday

(exact)

29 October
1929

41.

The beginning of rule by decree

(month/year)

30/3/1930

42.

21.

The Nazis won 107 seats (year)

1930

43.

22.

The last elections for president (year)

1932

23.

Bruning resigned (month/year)

May 1932

24.

The Nazis won 230 seats (month/year)

July 1932

45.

25.

The Nazis won 196 seats (month/year)

November
1932

46.

10.

37.
14.

15.
16.

17.

18.

19.

20.

38.

44.

47.

Who was Minister for Enlightenment and

Propaganda from 1933?

Goebbels

Which religious leader spoke out against

the Euthanasia Campaign in 1941?

Bishop
Galen

Creator of the 'New Plan' (Sept. '34) and

Director of the Reichsbank under the
Nazis.

Hjalmar
Schacht

51.

Leader of SA until June 1934?

Ernst
Roehm

52.

Year rearmament was announced.

1935

Chancellor of Weimar Republic (briefly)

in 1923 then Foreign Minister for much of
the 1920s

Stresemann

Leader of the White Rose opposition

group active during WWII and executed
in 1943.

Sophie
Scholl

Leader of the unsuccessful July '44 Bomb

Plot who placed a briefcase bomb by
Hitler's feet.

Stauffenberg

By how many percent did the average

salery of managers rise under the Nazis by
1938?

70%

How did the Nazis interfere in the

workings of businesses (much to their
annoyance)?

Control of
prices,
wages,
profits and
imports

Name of the Nazi workers organisation/

trade union set up in May '33.

DAF
(German
Worker's
Front)

Sub-organisation of the DAF designed to

keep workers happy by improving
working conditions.

'Beauty of
Labour'

Sub-organisation of the DAF designed to

keep workers happy by organising their
leisure time (cheap holidays, exercise
activities etc.)

'Strength
Through
Joy'

On average how many more hours did

people work per week under the Nazis?

Name of programme that conscripted

all18-25 year old men into very poorly paid
manual labour programmes for 6 months.

RAD (Reich
labour
Service)

48.

49.

50.

53.

54.

55.

56.

57.

58.

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60.

61.

62.

63.

64.

65.

66.

67.

Unemployment
was around
6m in1932.
What had it
fallen to by
1938?

500,000 (the Nazis may have fiddled the

figures a little but the number of
unemployed did drop significantly - though
it may have done so anyway)

What
happened to
average
earnings
under the
Nazis?

They increased very slightly from a very low

base in the Depression. So not massive
increase and may have happened anyway
as world economy recovered.

Leader of the
Hitler Youth
organisations

Baldur von Shirach

Name of Nazi
organisation
for adolescent
girls

BDM (League of German Maidens)

What different
reasons did
some people
have for
opposing the
Nazis?

Political ideology (e.g. left-wingers like

SPD/KPD), Morality (e.g. Boenhoffer,
White Rose), Military losses (July Bomb
plotters), Nonconformism (e.g. Swing
Youth - '30s, Eidelweiss Pirates - WWII),
Necessity (e.g. Jewish resistance in
Auschwitz or Warsaw Ghetto uprising '43)