AQA A-Level History Germany 1871 to 1991 overview quiz quiz

The Reichstag

The Kaiser

The Bundesrat

The army

A domestic policy of expanding social welfare and insurance for German workers

A defensive alliance signed with France to contain the growing power of Britain

A 'world policy' of colonial expansion, prestige and naval building

A programme of disarmament and reduction of the German army and navy

To disband the German army and navy at any time without consent

To appoint all judges to the courts for life without the Reichstag

To veto every taxation measure proposed by the elected Reichstag

To rule by emergency decree and suspend civil rights

The Dawes Plan

The Treaty of Locarno

The Young Plan

The Treaty of Rapallo

By winning an outright majority in a free election

He was legally appointed by President Hindenburg

Through a military coup

By the vote of the Reichstag alone

Guaranteed free elections to the Reichstag every two years

The restoration of the Hohenzollern monarchy under a new Kaiser

The government to pass laws without the Reichstag

Full independence and self-government for the state of Bavaria

Laws creating a comprehensive welfare state with pensions and health insurance

Laws limiting the size of the German army under international pressure

Laws nationalising heavy industry and bringing it under state control

Anti-Jewish laws stripping Jews of citizenship and banning intermarriage

West Germany's post-war economic miracle

The collapse of the centrally planned East German economy in the 1980s

The catastrophic hyperinflation that ruined savings in Weimar Germany in 1923

The Four Year Plan launched by the Nazis to prepare the economy for war

To defend East Berlin against an expected armed invasion by NATO forces

To stop the mass flight of East Germans to the West

To mark the formal end of the Second World War in central Europe

To protect the people of West Berlin from a planned Soviet takeover

9 November 1989

25 December 1991

3 October 1990

1 January 1990

A policy of large-scale rearmament aimed against the Soviet Union

A complete withdrawal of West Germany from the NATO alliance

A plan to annex East Germany by force and reunify the country

A policy of détente and reconciliation with the East