German History and Politics

German History from the Middle Ages to 1949

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  1. Which statesman is most closely linked with the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership in 1871?
  2. Where was the German Empire proclaimed in January 1871?
  3. In which year did Martin Luther publish his 95 Theses against the sale of indulgences?
  4. Which settlement of 1555 let each German prince choose the Lutheran or the Catholic faith for his own territory?
  5. Which peace treaties of 1648 ended the Thirty Years' War?
  6. Which city is linked with Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable-type printing in Europe in the mid-1400s?
  7. In which year did the Holy Roman Empire come to an end?
  8. Which church in Frankfurt hosted the first freely elected German national parliament in 1848?
  9. Which Prussian king, who reigned from 1740 to 1786, is known as the Great?
  10. In which year did the First World War begin?
  11. Why is the German republic that existed from 1919 to 1933 called the Weimar Republic?
  12. In which year did German hyperinflation reach its peak, so that banknotes were worth almost nothing?
  13. On which date in 1933 was Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor?
  14. Which event in February 1933 was used as a reason to suspend basic civil rights?
  15. What is the name of the night of 9 to 10 November 1938, when synagogues and Jewish shops were attacked across Germany?
  16. Which event on 1 September 1939 began the Second World War in Europe?
  17. Which meeting in January 1942 coordinated the organisation of the Holocaust among Nazi officials?
  18. Which group of students at the University of Munich, including Sophie and Hans Scholl, resisted the Nazis with leaflets?
  19. Which officer placed a bomb in Hitler's headquarters on 20 July 1944?
  20. On which date in 1945 did Germany surrender, ending the war in Europe?
  21. Into how many occupation zones was Germany divided after 1945?
  22. In which city were the main Allied trials of leading Nazi officials held from 1945?
  23. Which Allied operation of 1948 and 1949 supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade?
  24. Which emperor was crowned in Rome in 962 and is seen as the founder of the Holy Roman Empire?
  25. Which congress of 1814 and 1815 created the German Confederation of 39 states?

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