Leaving Certificate History

 

 

 

Revision Questions

Key questions for Germany 1919-1939

 

  1. What were the main parts of the new German Constitution 1919?
  2. Why did the Treaty of Versailles anger so many people in Germany? Give 5 reasons.
  3. What was the Spartacist Uprising?
  4. What was the Kapp Putsch?
  5. What was the Munich Putsch?
  6. What did reparations mean?
  7. Why did French troops move into the Ruhr in 1923?
  8. What is inflation and what effect did it have on Germany?
  9. What was the Dawes Plan?
  10. What was the Young plan?
  11. What did the Locarno Pact state?
  12. What was the Wall Street Crash?
  13. How did the 1929 Crash impact on all of Germany?
  14. How and why did Hitler become Chancellor in 1933? Who was President and who was the Vice-Chancellor?
  15. Explain why the Enabling Act was so important?
  16. Who were the Brownshirts?
  17. What are some of the central ideas contained in Mein Kampf?
  18. Who were some of the leading members of the Nazi party?
  19. Why was the Reichstag fir of 1933 so important?
  20. Who was Ernst Rohm?
  21. What happened on the “Night of the Long Knives”?
  22. Who were the SS and who was their leader?
  23. When and why was Hitler to become known as “Der Fuhrer”?
  24. What methods were used in 1930’s to reduce unemployment?
  25. What was meant by lebensraum?
  26. What did Nazi propaganda emphasise?
  27. Write some main facts on Joseph Goebbels?
  28. How was radio controlled?
  29. What happened to the press?
  30. Why was Leni Riefenstahl such an important figure in Nazi Germany?
  31. What changes took place in literature and music?
  32. Who was Albert Speer and why was he so important?
  33. In 1933 a Concordat was signed between the Catholic Church and the Nazi State. What did it contain?
  34. How were the various Protestant Churches treated by the Nazi State?
  35. What does anti-Semitism mean?
  36. What did the term “Aryan” mean in Nazi Germany?
  37. What were the Nuremberg laws of 1935?
  38. What happened on Kristallnacht?
  39. Who were the Einstatzgruppen?
  40. What did the “Final Solution” mean?
  41. What happened in places such as Auschwitz and Belsen?
  42. Why was Hermann Goring so important?
  43. Hitler ordered the Rhineland to be reoccupied in 1936. Why was this so important?
  44. How and in what ways were Mussolini and Hitler drawn closer together?
  45. What was the “Anschluss”?
  46. Where was the Sudetenland and why was it so important to Hitler?
  47. What is meant by appeasement and which politician is most associated with it?
  48. Who attended the Munich Conference and what decision was made?
  49. What was the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939?
  50. Why did war break out in Europe in 1939?