Germany, The First World War And The Weimar Republic
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Quiz on the reading from Allan Todd textbook pg. 104-107
Questions and Answers
- 1.At the end of WWI, German people were fully aware that they were losing the war.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.The winter of 1916-1917 was known as the 'turnip winter' because of the food shortages and the fact that many survived on hardy turnips because the potato crop failed.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.An influenza epidemic killed many cilivilians and soldiers in Germany at the end of the war.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Negotiations for peace would have been much earlier if the Kaiser had been willing to share power with the Reichstag, but he was not.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Mutiners in ___ were together imitating the Bolsheviks in Russia as workers striking.
- A.
Bulgaria
- B.
Berlin
- C.
Kiel
- 6.Check the box of the two matching party and leader who led the Center-left provisional government after the abducation of the throne by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
- A.
Social Democratic Party, Stresemann
- B.
Social Democratic PArty,Friedrich Ebert
- C.
Social Democratic PArty, Count Brockdorff
- 7.Who were the 'November Criminals'?
- A.
The French politicians who signed the ToV
- B.
The Italian politicians who signed the ToV
- C.
The Austria-Hungarian politicians who signed the ToV
- D.
The German politicians who signed the ToV
- 8.Most Germans did not feel that the Treaty of Versailles was a diktat.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Among other things like loss of land, colonies, and denied rights of Germans' self-determination, Germany had to pay 6600 million pounds in reparations.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.The Weimar Constitution was set up to defy the ToV.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.The Weimar Republic got its name from the food politiclans ate while setting up agreements.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.The Weimar was set up with proportional representation, giving small parties a place in the Reichstag.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Article 48 allowed for the Prime Minister, appointed by the President, to declare a state of emergency and rule by issuing decrees that did not have to be approved by the Reichstag.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.One of the small parties that won seats in the Reichstag was the Sparticists, a Bolshevik-type group. This greatly alarmed Ebert because it had extreme left-leanings and was revolting in Berlin.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.The para-military group did little to stop the revolt, and many leaders of the Sparticists became leaders in the Reichstag.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.The 'November Criminals' were eventually set free and held positions in the Reichstag.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Captain Wolfgang Kapp led a coup, or a Putsch, to overthrow the government in Berlin. He had the sympathy of some of the police corps, and yet was defeated because of a general strike by the workers of Berlin.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.The 'Red Rising' occured in the Ruhr Valley by the right-wing party.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.French and Belgian troups invaded the Ruhr, Germany's richest industrial area, when Germany could not pay their second reparation fee.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.Because the German government tried to fix the economic problems by printing more money, this led to rapid hyperinflation, making German money eventually worthless.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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