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20 things about Germany 1890-1945

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Under the Kaiser, about what percentage of the population voted for the Socialists?

a)

30%

b)

20%

c)

10%

d)

50%

2.

What did the Kaiser provide for Working Class people to stop them supporting the Socialists?

a)

Bread and Circuses

b)

Cruises and holidays

c)

Motorways

d)

Pensions and Social Housing

3.

How much did the Treaty of Versailles make Germany have to pay in Reparations ?

a)

£6 million

b)

£6.6 million

c)

£6 billion

d)

£6.6 billion

4.

How much of Germany's Iron and Steel industry was lost because of the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

10%

b)

25%

c)

50%

d)

75%

5.

How did American banks react to the Wall Street Crash?

a)

Asked for Loans Back

b)

Offered a more loans.

c)

Printed more money

d)

Spent the loans of swimming pools

6.

How many Germans were unemployed in 1932?

a)

6 million

b)

5 million

c)

3 million

d)

1 million

7.

Under the Nazis, the official unemployment figure in 1938 was how many?

a)

0.5 million

b)

0.3 million

c)

0.1 million

d)

0

8.

How did the Nazis bring down unemployment?

a)

Reduced the size of the army

b)

Conscripted men into the army

c)

Employed people to build weapons

d)

Cut pensions

9.

What did the Nuremberg Laws ban Jews from doing?

a)

Travelling

b)

Attending the Olympics

c)

Being doctors

d)

Marrying Aryans

10.

In what year were the Nuremberg Laws passed?

a)

1933

b)

1935

c)

1937

d)

1939

11.

The British Blockade reduced food imports into Germany. What animal fodder crop was eaten during the Winter of 1916/17?

a)

Hay

b)

Cabbage

c)

Turnips

d)

Kale

12.

How many extra deaths were caused by hunger in Germany during WW1?

a)

250000

b)

500000

c)

750000

d)

1 million

13.

Which Communist leader was murdered during the Spartacist Rebellion in 1919?

a)

Dr Kapp

b)

Ernst Rohmn

c)

Ebert

d)

Rosa Luxembourg

14.

What did Dr Kapp's 1920 Putsch want?

a)

Bring back the Kaiser

b)

A Communist Revolution

c)

To leave the League of Nations

d)

To make Hitler President

15.

How many SA men were killed during the Night of the Long Knives?

a)

100

b)

200

c)

300

d)

400

16.

How did the Night of the Long Knives benefit Hitler?

a)

Removed SA as a threat to his power

b)

Made the Army loyal as the SA threat to them was removed.

c)

Made the SA ultraloyal

d)

Killed leading Army Officers

17.

How did the Nazis get their message into every house?

a)

TV coverage of Nuremberg Rallies

b)

Offering cheap shortwave radios

c)

Cruise holidays

d)

Free cinema tickets

18.

How many radio loudspeakers did the Nazis have round Germany?

a)

1000

b)

3000

c)

6000

d)

100000

19.

Sophie Scholl was part of the White Rose group in which city?

a)

Berlin

b)

Hamburg

c)

Stuttgart

d)

Munich

20.

What happened to Sophie Scholl?

a)

Guillotined

b)

Shot

c)

Put in a concentration camp

d)

Released