IGCSE REVISION - GERMANY: REVISION SUMMARY - 30 QUESTIONS

1. DEPTH STUDY
REVISION GERMANY
REVISION SUMMARY
30 QUESTIONS
12

2. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q1
• What was the name of the first president of the Weimar Republic?
Which party did he belong to?

3. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q2
• Why was the government based at Weimar?

4. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q3
• What was the name of the Parliament in the Weimar Republic?

5. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q4
• Name the force which was started to keep the peace in Germany.

6. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q5
• Give three reasons for discontent in Germany after World War 1.

7. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q6
• Where did the Spartacist Revolt and the Kapp Putsch take place?

8. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q7
• Give the main results of the French occupation of the Ruhr in 1923.

9. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q8
• Write a paragraph outlining the work of Gustav Stresemann.

10. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q9
• Which party was responsible for the Munich Putsch? Who was its
leader?

11. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q10
• Name the paramilitary force which was set up to support the Nazis.

12. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q11
• What was the title of the book Hitler wrote in prison?

13. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q12
• Who beat Hitler in the Presidential elections of April 1932?

14. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q13
• How did Hitler use the Reichstag Fire?

15. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q14
• What did Hitler’s Enabling Bill allow him to do in March 1933?

16. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q15
• What was the Night of the Long Knives?

17. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q16
• What title did Hitler give himself on the death of Hindenburg in
1934?

18. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q17
• What were Gaue?

19. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q18
• Which Nazi was put in charge of propaganda? Write about some
methods he used.

20. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q19
• What was the SS? What was the Gestapo?

21. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q20
• Give an achievement of the Nazi programme of public works.

22. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q21
• What was the “Strength Through Joy” programme? What
organisation did workers have to join instead of trade unions?

23. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q22
• Name the leading Nazi who was put in charge of the Luftwaffe.

24. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q23
• In what ways did the Nazis make sure that young people followed
their cause?

25. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q24
• Which organisation did teachers in Nazi Germany have to join?

26. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q25
• Give eight reasons why the German people followed the Nazis.

27. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q26
• Give two reasons why opposition was weak under the Nazis.

28. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q27
• What was the name of the church set up by Protestants who
opposed the Reich Church?

29. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q28
• Name the African-American athlete who won four gold medals at
the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

30. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q29
• What were the Nuremberg Laws? What did they do?

31. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY – MR. D
Q30
• Describe what happened on the “Night of Broken Glass”.