Weimar: key dates

Question 1

World War 1

Answer 1

August 1914 - November 1918

Question 2

the armistice is signed

Answer 2

; 11th November 1918

Question 3

Battles of Verdun and the Somme

Answer 3

mid-1916

Question 4

Falkenhayn resigns and Hidenburg and Ludendorff take over command of the army

Answer 4

August 1916

Question 5

US enters into the war

Answer 5

April 1917

Question 6

passing of the peace resolution

Answer 6

July 1917

Question 7

resignation of Bethmann-Hollwegg

Answer 7

July 1917

Question 8

failure of the Spring Offensive to break through the statelmate on the Western Front before American forces could fully deploy

Answer 8

March 1918

Question 9

the British break through the last German defence system (the Hindenburg Line)

Answer 9

6th October 1918

Question 10

Hindenburg and Ludendorff advised the Kaiser that Germany must request an armistice and that the war had been lost.

Answer 10

29th September 1918

Question 11

Auxillary Labour Law

Answer 11

1916

Question 12

formation of the USPD (Independent Socialist Party)

Answer 12

1917

Question 13

development of the anti war movement

Answer 13

1916

Question 14

Bethmann-Hollwegg persuaded the Kaiser to amend the Prussian constitution

Answer 14

January 1916

Question 15

‘turnip winter’

Answer 15

1916-17

Question 16

establishment of the Fatherland party

Answer 16

September 1917

Question 17

crews of two naval vessels moored at Wilhelmshaven mutinied

Answer 17

October 29th 1918

Question 18

the high seas fleet in Kiel mutiny

Answer 18

3rd November 1918

Question 19

the Kaiser abdicates

Answer 19

9th November 1918

Question 20

Ebert-Groener pact

Answer 20

10th November 1918

Question 21

Stinnes-Legien agreement

Answer 21

15th November 1918

Question 22

the Spartacist uprising

Answer 22

1st January 1919

Question 23

All German Congress of Worker’s and Soldiers’ councils set up

Answer 23

16th-21st December 1918

Question 24

first elections to the National Constituent Assembly

Answer 24

19th January 1919

Question 25

Revolt in Bavaria

Answer 25

February - May 1919

Question 26

Weimar Constitution signed by President Ebert

Answer 26

11th August 1919

Question 27

allied leaders assembled in Paris to make peace with defeated Central powers

Answer 27

January 1919

Question 28

food, fuel and clothing shortages

Answer 28

from 1916 onwards

Question 29

Spanish flu epidemic

Answer 29

1918

Question 30

prince Max asks for an armistice based off of Wilson's 14 points

Answer 30

3rd October 1918

Question 31

Wilson basically said that Germany must surrender and change regime to recieve an armistice

Answer 31

24th October 1918

Question 32

Bavaria declares a socialist republic

Answer 32

7th November 1918

Question 33

demonstrations in Berlin and Liebknecht and Scheidemann declare socialist and worker's republics, before the Kaiser has abdicated

Answer 33

9th November 1918

Question 34

Scheidemann (a socialist leader) proclaims a republic from a Reichstag windown before the Kaiser has been persuaded to abdicate

Answer 34

9th November 1918

Question 35

signing of the Stinnes-Legien pact

Answer 35

15th November 1918

Question 36

Ruhr uprising

Answer 36

March 1920

Question 37

Kapp Putsch

Answer 37

March 1920

Question 38

the Munich Beer Hall Putsch

Answer 38

November 1923

Question 39

reperations bill is set

Answer 39

May 1921

Question 40

the German government asks for a 'holiday' from reperations payments

Answer 40

July 1922

Question 41

reperations commission declare that Germany has failed to deliver on reperations payments

Answer 41

December 1922

Question 42

French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr, Germans start passive resistance

Answer 42

11th January 1923

Question 43

hyperinflation

Answer 43

1923

Question 44

the Dawes plan

Answer 44

July 1924

Question 45

the Lorcano treaties

Answer 45

1925

Question 46

Germany joins the League of Nations as a permanent member

Answer 46

1926

Question 47

Treaty of Berlin

Answer 47

1926

Question 48

Kellog-Briand pact

Answer 48

1928

Question 49

young plan

Answer 49

August 1929

Question 50

referendum on the young plan

Answer 50

December 1929

Question 51

Stressemann as foreign minister

Answer 51

1923-29

Question 52

when was a law passed, banning the pbulications of certain books to under 18's

Answer 52

1926

Question 53

power increasingly remains in the hands of Hindenburg

Answer 53

from March 1929 to January 1933

Question 54

when is the grand coalition government formed

Answer 54

1928

Question 55

when does the entire cabinet resign over issues on how to deal with the great depression

Answer 55

March 1930

Question 56

Muller as chancellor

Answer 56

1928-30

Question 57

Bruning as chancellor

Answer 57

1930-32

Question 58

Reichstag fire

Answer 58

27th February 1933

Question 59

Hitler becomes chancellor

Answer 59

30th January 1933

Question 60

the day of potsdam

Answer 60

21st March 1933

Question 61

the enabling law

Answer 61

24th March 1933

Question 62

the elimination of other political parties and the destruction of trade unions

Answer 62

14th July 1933

Question 63

the concordat with Rome

Answer 63

20th July 1933

Question 64

the night of the long knives

Answer 64

30th June 1934

Question 65

Death of Hindenburg, creation of the orle of Fuhrer and the Army's oath of loyalty

Answer 65

2nd August 1934

Question 66

Hitler has a private meeting with Bruning

Answer 66

1930

Question 67

Hitler meets with Hindenburg for the first time

Answer 67

1931

Question 68

when do the Nazis try to work with the DNVP

Answer 68

1931

Question 69

when does Hitler meet with Ruhr industrialists

Answer 69

1932

Question 70

when does Bruning ban the SA

Answer 70

April 1932

Question 71

when does Papen force authoritarian control over Prussia

Answer 71

July 1932

Question 72

when is Schleicher appointed Reich chancellor

Answer 72

end of 1932

Question 72

when do Papen and Hindenburg agree in a meeting that Hitler would be head of a nazi-nationalist coalition

Answer 72

4th January 1933

Question 73

when does Hindenburg withdraw his support for Schleicher as chancellor

Answer 73

28th January 1933

Question 74

when do reparations come to an end

Answer 74

1932

Question 75

Ludendorff is forced to resign

Answer 75

26 October 1918

Question 76

Germany is presented with its reparations bill

Answer 76

1921

Question 78

Treaty of Rapallo

Answer 78

1922