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Treaty of Versailles & Weimar Republic

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the name of the communist uprising in Germany in 1919?
a)
Spartacists
b)
Kapp Putsch
c)
Freikorps
d)
Kiel naval mutiny
2.
What was the name of the right-wing uprising in Germany in 1920?
a)
Spartacists
b)
Kapp Putsch
c)
Freikorps
d)
Beer Hall Putsch
3.

What economic event causes great problems in Germany in the early 1920's?

a)

Hyperinflation

b)

Influenza

c)

Workers’ Strikes

d)

Wall Street Crash

4.
Where did the failed Nazi Party 'Beer Hall Putsch' of 1923 take place?
a)
Berlin
b)
Kiel
c)
Stuttgart
d)
Munich
5.
What was the name of the SPD Chancellor who helped Weimar recover from 1924 to 1929?
a)
Friedrich Ebert
b)
Rosa Luxemburg
c)
Gustav Stresemann
d)
Franz von Papen
6.
What was the name of the 1924 agreement with America which helped German economic stability?
a)
Dawes Plan
b)
Locarno Plan
c)
Treaty of Versailles
d)
Young Plan
7.

What was the name of the 1925 agreement which secured the borders set out at Versailles?

a)

Daws Plan

b)

Locarno Pact

c)

Munich Putsch

d)

The League of Nations

8.
What year was Germany accepted into the League of Nations ?
a)
1924
b)
1925
c)
1926
d)
1929
9.
What was the name of the 1929 agreement which reduced Germanys reparations payments?
a)
Dawes Plan
b)
Locarno Pact
c)
Treaty of Versailles
d)
Young Plan
10.

The French occupation of the Ruhr Valley was responded to with...

a)

Active resistance

b)

direct action

c)

passive action of "paction"

d)

passive resistance

11.

In order to pay the striking German workers of the Ruhr Valley, the German government chose to...

a)

print more money

b)

pay them 'in kind'

c)

pay them with foreign currency

d)

not to pay them at all

12.

The Kapp Putsch failed because ...

a)

Ebert's soldiers fought back.

b)

the Spartacists fought back.

c)

the workers declared a general strike.

d)

the government declared a general strike.

13.

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways on how Stresemann solved the financial crisis of Germany?

a)

Called off the passive resistance in the Ruhr

b)

introduced the Deutschemark

c)

Negotiated loans from the USA

d)

Renegotiated the terms of the reparations

14.

All of the following are Stresemann's successes as Foreign Minister EXCEPT:

a)

negotiating the Locarno Treatries

b)

Germany's entry into the League of Nations

c)

forming coalition governments in the Reichstag

d)

negotiating the Dawes and Young Plan

15.

Who was the first Chancellor of the newly declared German Republic?

a)

Phillip Schneidemann

b)

Ebert

c)

Wolfgang Kapp

d)

Anton Drexler

16.

Weimar Constitution - which Article allowed the President to suspend the constitution in an emergency?

a)

Article 46

b)

Article 48

c)

Article 42

d)

Article 50

17.
The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933.
a)
Coalition Government
b)
Provisional Government
c)
Weimar Republic
d)
Third Reich
18.
Which of the following factors helped to radicalize Germany society in the years after WWI?
a)
the authoritarianism of the Weimar Republic.
b)
drought and famine.
c)
out of control inflation.
d)
the rise of the middle class.
19.

What was the Spartacist Uprising?

a)

A revolt by Roman gladiators, including Russell Crowe

b)

A Munich football team who won against Arsenal in 1919

c)

A group of communists who sought to overthrow the Weimar Republic and establish communism in Germany in 1919.

20.
What was the Kapp Putsch?
a)
A left wing attempt to take power
b)
A right wing attempt to take power
c)
The death of Kapp