German History and Politics

German History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Germany with the correct year: Martin Luther led the Reformation against the Catholic Church after ______, as northern and eastern states became Protestant, whil…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Germany with the correct year: With the Napoleonic Wars, feudalism fell and the Holy Roman Empire dissolved in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Holy Roman Empire with the correct year: By around ______, contemporary sources often referred to it simply as "Germany", reflecting its identification as a specifically Ge…
  4. Complete the sentence about German Empire with the correct year: The empire was founded on 18 January ______, when the south German states, except for Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, joined th…
  5. Complete the sentence about German Empire with the correct year: Starting very small in ______, in a decade, the navy became second only to Britain's Royal Navy.
  6. Complete the sentence about Weimar Republic with the correct year: Hostilities in the war formally ceased with the Armistice of 11 November ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Weimar Republic with the correct year: From March ______ onwards, President Paul von Hindenburg used emergency powers to back chancellors Heinrich Brüning, Franz von Papen…
  8. Complete the sentence about Weimar Republic with the correct year: On 30 January ______, Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor to head a coalition government; his Nazi Party held two out of…
  9. Complete the sentence about Weimar Republic with the correct year: The Weimar Republic is so called because the Weimar National Assembly that adopted its constitution met in Weimar from 6 February to…
  10. Complete the sentence about Nazi Germany with the correct year: After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in ______, the Nazi Party began to eliminate political opposition and consolidate power…
  11. Complete the sentence about Nazi Germany with the correct year: Hitler made increasingly aggressive territorial demands, seizing Austria in the Anschluss of ______ and the Sudetenland region of Czecho…
  12. Complete the sentence about Nazi Germany with the correct year: Germany signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and invaded Poland in ______, launching World War II in Europe.
  13. Complete the sentence about Nazi Germany with the correct year: In alliance with Fascist Italy and other Axis powers, Germany conquered most of Europe by ______, but failed to subdue Britain.
  14. Complete the sentence about Nazi Germany with the correct year: After invading the Soviet Union in ______, Nazi Germany implemented the Generalplan Ost and Hunger Plan, as part of its war of extermina…
  15. Complete the sentence about Nazi Germany with the correct year: Germany was conquered by the Soviet Union from the east and the other allies from the west, and capitulated in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about East Germany with the correct year: In response, the GDR government fortified its inner German border and built the Berlin Wall in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about West Germany with the correct year: When the G6 was established in ______, there was no serious debate as to whether West Germany would become a member.
  18. Complete the sentence about West Germany with the correct year: East Germany voted to dissolve and accede to the Federal Republic of Germany in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about West Germany with the correct year: On 31 May ______, the heads of West German federal and state governments recommended always using the full name in official publications…
  20. Complete the sentence about German reunification with the correct year: The American-occupied, British-occupied, and French-occupied zones combined to form the FRG, i.e., West Germany, on 23 May _____…
  21. Complete the sentence about German reunification with the correct year: The Soviet-occupied zone formed the GDR, i.e., East Germany, in October ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about German reunification with the correct year: In ______, a range of opinions continued to be maintained over whether a reunited Germany could be said to represent "Germany as…
  23. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, a Russian proposal was made that classified it as an annexation.
  24. Complete the sentence about German reunification with the correct year: In ______, Matthias Platzeck referred to the reunification as an 'anschluss'.
  25. Complete the sentence about German reunification with the correct year: After the suicide of Adolf Hitler on 30 April ______, Karl Dönitz assumed the title of Reichspräsident in accordance with Hitler…
  26. Complete the sentence about German reunification with the correct year: As such, he authorised the signing of the unconditional surrender of all German armed forces, which took effect on 8 May ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Fall of the Berlin Wall with the correct year: Following the summer of ______, by early November refugees were finding their way to Hungary via Czechoslovakia or via the We…
  28. Complete the sentence about Otto von Bismarck with the correct year: From ______ onwards, his balance-of-power approach to diplomacy helped maintain Germany's position in a peaceful Europe.
  29. Complete the sentence about Otto von Bismarck with the correct year: Bismarck was born in ______ at Schönhausen, a noble family estate west of Berlin in Prussian Saxony.
  30. Complete the sentence about Otto von Bismarck with the correct year: In ______, while stationed as an army reservist in Greifswald, he studied agriculture at the University of Greifswald.
  31. Complete the sentence about Frederick Barbarossa with the correct year: In ______, Frederick drowned attempting to cross the Saleph River, leading to most of his army abandoning the Crusade before rea…
  32. Complete the sentence about Frederick Barbarossa with the correct year: Frederick was born to Duke Frederick II of Swabia and Judith of Bavaria in mid-December ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Frederick Barbarossa with the correct year: Perhaps in preparation for the crusade, Frederick married Adelaide of Vohburg sometime before March ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Martin Luther with the correct year: Born in Eisleben, Luther was ordained to the priesthood in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Martin Luther with the correct year: Luther initiated an international debate on these in works like his Ninety-five Theses, which he authored in ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Martin Luther with the correct year: At the time of Luther's death in ______, his excommunication was still in effect.
  37. Complete the sentence about Martin Luther with the correct year: In ______, at age 17, Luther entered the University of Erfurt, which he later described as a beer house and whorehouse.
  38. Complete the sentence about Protestant Reformation with the correct year: The Reformation is usually dated from Martin Luther's publication of the Ninety-five Theses in ______, which gave birth to Lut…
  39. Complete the sentence about Peace of Augsburg with the correct year: The Interim was overthrown in ______ by the revolt of the Protestant elector Maurice of Saxony and his allies.
  40. Complete the sentence about Peace of Augsburg with the correct year: In the negotiations at Passau in the summer of ______, even the Catholic princes had called for a lasting peace, fearing that the r…
  41. Complete the sentence about Peace of Augsburg with the correct year: Under the Passau document, Charles granted a peace only until the next imperial Diet, whose meeting was called in early ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Thirty Years' War with the correct year: The war began in ______, when the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand II was replaced as king of Bohemia by the Protestant Frederick V of th…
  43. Complete the sentence about Peace of Westphalia with the correct year: Peace negotiations between France and the Habsburg Emperor began in Cologne in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Peace of Westphalia with the correct year: In Hamburg, Sweden, France, and the Holy Roman Empire negotiated a preliminary peace in December ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Peace of Westphalia with the correct year: Münster had been, since its re-Catholicism in ______, a strictly mono-denominational community.
  46. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Hohenzollerns were made rulers of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Prussia with the correct year: In ______, the Hohenzollerns secured the reversion of the Duchy of Pomerania after a series of conflicts, and acquired its eastern…
  48. Complete the sentence about Napoleonic Wars with the correct year: The first stage of the wars broke out when Britain declared war on France on 18 May ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Napoleonic Wars with the correct year: After minor campaigns, Britain allied with Austria, Russia, and minor powers, to form the Third Coalition in April ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Napoleonic Wars with the correct year: Concerned about increasing French power, Prussia joined Britain and Russia in the Fourth Coalition, which resumed war in October ____…
  51. Complete the sentence about Napoleonic Wars with the correct year: Austria won the Battle of Aspern-Essling but was defeated at Wagram, forcing the imposition of a harsh peace in October ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Napoleonic Wars with the correct year: Concurrently Russia, unwilling to bear the economic consequences of reduced trade, violated the Continental System, prompting Napoleo…
  53. Complete the sentence about Napoleonic Wars with the correct year: French forces retreated from Russia by December ______ and began reconstituting their lost strength.
  54. Complete the sentence about German Confederation with the correct year: The Confederation dissolved after the victory of the Kingdom of Prussia over the Austrian Empire in the Austro-Prussian War of _…
  55. Complete the sentence about German Confederation with the correct year: After the German victory, the Confederation was renamed and proclaimed as the German Empire in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about German Confederation with the correct year: The War of ______ proved its ineffectiveness, as it was unable to combine the federal troops to fight the Prussian secession.
  57. Complete the sentence about Revolutions of 1848 with the correct year: The revolutionary wave began with the revolution in Sicily in January and spread across Europe after the revolution in France in…
  58. Complete the sentence about Franco-Prussian War with the correct year: France mobilised its army on 15 July ______, leading the North German Confederation to respond with its own mobilisation later th…
  59. Complete the sentence about Franco-Prussian War with the correct year: On 16 July ______, the French parliament voted to declare war on Prussia; France invaded German territory on 2 August.
  60. Complete the sentence about Kaiser Wilhelm II with the correct year: In March ______, Wilhelm's father, Frederick William, ascended the German and Prussian thrones as Frederick III.
  61. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm I, German Emperor with the correct year: In ______, his childless elder brother became King of Prussia, making him heir presumptive.
  62. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm I, German Emperor with the correct year: Wilhelm played a major role in crushing the Revolutions of ______ in Germany, although he was briefly forced into exile in…
  63. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm I, German Emperor with the correct year: Frederick William IV suffered a stroke in ______ and was left incapacitated, and Wilhelm was formally named Prince Regent a…
  64. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm I, German Emperor with the correct year: In ______, Wilhelm ascended to the Prussian throne on his elder brother's death.
  65. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm I, German Emperor with the correct year: In ______, through Bismarck's maneuvers, the unification of Germany was achieved following the Franco-Prussian War.
  66. Complete the sentence about World War I with the correct year: Tensions in the Balkans reached a breaking point on 28 June ______ when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, assassinated Franz Ferdinand, th…
  67. Complete the sentence about World War I with the correct year: In April ______, the United States joined the Allies after Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare against Atlantic shipping.
  68. Complete the sentence about World War I with the correct year: The Allied Hundred Days Offensive, beginning in August ______, caused a collapse of the German front line.
  69. Complete the sentence about World War I with the correct year: Facing a revolution at home, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated on 9 November, and the war ended with the Armistice of 11 November ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Versailles with the correct year: The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Versailles with the correct year: The United States entered the war against the Central Powers in ______ and President Woodrow Wilson played a significant role in…
  72. Complete the sentence about Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic with the correct year: By ______ the currency had stabilised and German reparations payments began again under the Dawes Plan.
  73. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September ______ under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War.
  74. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and moved to Germany in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: In ______, he attempted to seize governmental power in a failed coup in Munich and was sentenced to five years in prison, serving just o…
  76. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: Shortly thereafter, on 23 March, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of ______, which ultimately began the Weimar Republic's transform…
  77. Complete the sentence about Adolf Hitler with the correct year: Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August ______, Hitler replaced him as head of state and thereafter, Germany became a totalitarian dictators…
  78. Complete the sentence about Beer Hall Putsch with the correct year: On 20 December ______, having served only nine months, Hitler was released.
  79. Complete the sentence about Enabling Act of 1933 with the correct year: On 27 February ______, the Reichstag building of the German parliament caught fire.
  80. Complete the sentence about Enabling Act of 1933 with the correct year: For the general election of 5 March ______, the Nazis were allied with other nationalist and conservative factions.
  81. Complete the sentence about Kristallnacht with the correct year: The subsequent ______ Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and prohibited Jews from marrying non-Jewish Germans.
  82. Complete the sentence about Kristallnacht with the correct year: By ______, Germany "had entered a new radical phase in anti-Semitic activity".
  83. Complete the sentence about The Holocaust with the correct year: The Nazis developed their ideology based on racism and pursuit of "living space", and seized power in early ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about The Holocaust with the correct year: After Germany's invasion of Poland in September ______, occupation authorities began to establish ghettos to segregate Jews.
  85. Complete the sentence about The Holocaust with the correct year: Following the June ______ invasion of the Soviet Union, 1.5 to 2 million Jews were murdered by German forces and local collaborators.
  86. Complete the sentence about The Holocaust with the correct year: By early ______, following the Wannsee Conference presided by Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis' Final Solution was implemented to murder al…
  87. Complete the sentence about World War II with the correct year: In ______, the Soviet Union annexed the Baltic states and parts of Finland and Romania, while Germany conquered Norway, Denmark, Belgium…
  88. Complete the sentence about World War II with the correct year: In June ______, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, opening the Eastern Front.
  89. Complete the sentence about Potsdam Conference with the correct year: In May ______, Churchill wrote to Truman hoping to arrange a meeting of the three governments to occur in June.
  90. Complete the sentence about Berlin Blockade with the correct year: The Berlin Airlift officially ended on 30 September ______ after fifteen months.
  91. Complete the sentence about Berlin Blockade with the correct year: On 30 November ______, the Allied Control Council in Berlin approved the only written agreement regarding transportation to Berlin fr…
  92. Complete the sentence about Allied-occupied Germany with the correct year: At first, Allied-occupied Germany was defined as all territories of Germany before the ______ Nazi annexation of Austria.
  93. Complete the sentence about Allied-occupied Germany with the correct year: The Memel Territory, annexed by Germany from Lithuania before the war, was annexed by the Soviet Union in ______ and transfer…
  94. Complete the sentence about Allied-occupied Germany with the correct year: After two months during which they held areas that had been assigned to the Soviet zone, U.S. forces withdrew in the first da…
  95. Complete the sentence about Allied-occupied Germany with the correct year: By May ______ the British and Canadian Armies had liberated the Netherlands and had conquered Northern Germany.
  96. Complete the sentence about Allied-occupied Germany with the correct year: The British Army of the Rhine was formed on 25 August ______ from the British Liberation Army.
  97. Complete the sentence about Konrad Adenauer with the correct year: A proponent of European unity, he signed the Treaty of Rome in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Konrad Adenauer with the correct year: In ______, he was mustered for the Prussian army, but did not pass the physical exam due to chronic respiratory problems he had exper…
  99. Complete the sentence about Willy Brandt with the correct year: Brandt resigned as chancellor in ______, after Günter Guillaume, one of his closest aides, was exposed as an agent of the Stasi, the Eas…
  100. Complete the sentence about Willy Brandt with the correct year: After passing his Abitur in ______ at Johanneum zu Lübeck, he took work at the shipbroker and ship's agent F.H.

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