Lesson Y9-U04-L04

Y9-U04-L04 Weimar's Golden Years, 1924-29 Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 17

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Lesson Y9-U04-L04, Weimar's Golden Years, 1924-29: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 17: Year 9: Rise of the Nazis, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What new currency replaced the worthless mark in November 1923?

    • The Rentenmark
    • The Young Dollar
    • The Dawes Franc
    • The Reichsmark of the Kaiser

  2. Why could the Rentenmark be trusted by ordinary Germans?

    • Its supply was strictly limited
    • It was backed by unlimited gold from Britain's treasury
    • It was printed every day in larger quantities
    • It was issued only to foreign bankers in London

  3. How many marks in American loans did the Dawes Plan of 1924 bring into Germany?

    • 8 thousand marks, roughly the price of one loaf in mid 1923
    • 8 billion marks, a figure far larger than Germany ever borrowed
    • 80 million marks, a small sum that did not rebuild any factories
    • 800 million marks

  4. In which year was the Young Plan agreed?

    • 1924
    • 1933
    • 1925
    • 1929

  5. By which year did the Young Plan give Germany to finish paying reparations?

    • 1929
    • 1988
    • 1945
    • 1960

  6. In which year did French troops leave the Ruhr?

    • 1923
    • 1929
    • 1933
    • 1925

  7. What was the main hidden weakness of Germany's economic recovery?

    • It was controlled entirely by the French government in Paris and Berlin
    • It had no factories at all in the industrial cities of the west
    • It depended on short-term American loans
    • It relied on gold mined in the Black Hills of Dakota by foreign workers

  8. Roughly how many people were unemployed in Germany by 1929?

    • About 19 million, which was the whole working population of the country
    • About 19,000 people, mostly in the Ruhr mining towns and ports
    • About 190,000 people, a figure that was far too low for the period
    • About 1.9 million

  9. What did the Locarno Pact of 1925 settle?

    • The eastern borders with Russia after the revolution
    • Germany's western borders with France and Belgium
    • The price of coal in the Ruhr valley
    • The number of ships the German navy could build

  10. In which year did Germany join the League of Nations as a permanent council member?

    • 1938
    • 1919
    • 1926
    • 1923

  11. What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 promise?

    • To share all colonies equally between the signatories
    • To pay all reparations in gold within one year
    • To disarm every army in Europe by 1930
    • Not to use war to settle disputes

  12. Why did many nationalists call Stresemann a traitor?

    • They felt he had joined the Communist Party in 1925 and secretly supported it
    • They felt he accepted the hated Treaty instead of overturning it
    • They felt he had given the Ruhr to the French for free and without a fight
    • They felt he had banned the Nazi Party from every town in the whole country

  13. What did Stresemann mean by saying Germany was 'dancing on a volcano'?

    • The recovery looked good on the surface but rested on loans
    • Germany was building a volcano-shaped parliament building in Berlin
    • Germany was about to be invaded by a volcano in the far south
    • Germany was celebrating a victory in a war it had just won in 1923

  14. Which director made the world-famous film 'Metropolis' in 1927?

    • Fritz Lang
    • Charlie Chaplin
    • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Walt Disney

  15. What was the Bauhaus?

    • A military academy that trained Nazi stormtroopers for the coming years
    • A bank that lent money to the French government for the Ruhr
    • A design school that challenged old ideas
    • A brewery in Munich where Hitler held his first rallies in the city

  16. Which new freedom did many women enjoy in the Weimar years?

    • Being excused from all taxes and rent payments
    • Serving in the army as officers in the front line
    • Being elected to the Kaiser's court in Berlin
    • Voting, working and going out independently

  17. Which group saw the new Weimar culture as decadent and 'un-German'?

    • The Bauhaus designers themselves and their families in Dessau
    • The American journalists visiting Berlin on their holidays
    • The French occupying forces in the Ruhr valley and their families
    • Conservative and religious Germans

  18. How does Source B make the golden years sound?

    • As a dull and grey period with no theatres or cafes at all in the city
    • As a thrilling, glamorous and carefree time
    • As a period of famine in which the cafes were all closed by law
    • As a time of total war with constant bombing in Berlin streets

  19. Why is Source A useful for judging how secure the recovery really was?

    • Stresemann was an insider with no reason to exaggerate
    • Stresemann was a French politician opposed to German recovery
    • Stresemann wrote the source years after the golden years had ended
    • Stresemann was an American journalist who was visiting Berlin for a holiday

  20. Which prize did Stresemann win for his foreign policy?

    • The Nobel Prize for Chemistry
    • The Victoria Cross
    • The Nobel Peace Prize
    • The Olympic gold medal

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