Year 10 - Spring Quiz 1

Name the two leaders of the Spartacists, murdered in January 1919 by Freikorps.

• Matthias Erzberger
• Karl Liebknecht
• Dr Wolfgang Kapp
• 'Red' Rosa Luxembourg

What did the ‘Beauty of Labour’ programme aim to do?

• Offered discounted theatre/cinema tickets, holidays and so on to incentivize workers.

• Convince employers to make improvements to working conditions, e.g. washing facilities or new canteens.

• Increase public works spending across Germany.

• Build and resource concentration camps

How many seats did the Nazis win in the July 1932 election?

• 288
• 230
• 12
• 196

By 1939, there were 2,000 pastors in the Reich Church. How many were there in Niemoller’s Confessing Church?

• 6000
• 18000
• 3500
• 4000

What was the name of the new, gritty art style popularized by figures such as Otto Dix and George Grosz during the Weimar years?

• Expressionism
• Pointillism
• New objectivity
• Cabaret

Who was a rich Catholic, favourite of Hindenburg and he distrusted Hitler? (He wanted to be Chancellor)

• Franz von Papen
• General von Schleicher
• Josef Goebbels
• Woodrow Wilson

Who had replaced Roosevelt as President of the United States by the time of the Potsdam Conference in 1945?

• Dwight D Eisenhower
• Jimmy Carter
• Harry Truman
• John F Kennedy

Give two other changes that had occurred in between the Yalta and Potsdam conferences.

• Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the 1945 general election – Labour leader David Lloyd George became Prime Minister.
• Japan had surrendered in February 1945.
• The USA had successfully tested an atomic bomb in New Mexico.
• The United Nations had been created at the Treaty of San Francisco in Jun 1945.

How did the Potsdam Conference divide up Germany?

• Split in half - 50/50 between USSR and the USA. East Germany and West Germany.
• A 'Polish Corridor' was created, separating eastern Prussia from the main body of the country and giving the Polish a coast.
• A second front was opened to the West.
• Four zones of occupation (one for each victorious power) - France, USA, USSR and Great Britain. Four analogous zones within Berlin.

When was the Tehran Conference?

• November 1943
• February 1945
• July 1945
• April 1944