MODERN GERMANY FINAL EXAMINATION REVIEW:
STUDY GUIDE—FINAL EXAMINATION
The final examination will cover chapters 8 and 9 in your text. It will focus on the Nazi dictatorship in Germany 1933-1939; German foreign policy, 1933-1939; and finally World War II in Europe until the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945.
TOPICS COVERED:
TERMS:
Kapp Putsch
Dawes Plan
Young Plan
Gustav Stresemann
Locarno Treaty
Friedrich Ebert
Beer Hall Putsch
Reichstag Fire
Volksgemeindschaft
Burgfrieden
The Erfurt program
Ebert/Gröner Pact
Enabling Act
Reichstag Fire
Gleichschaltung
Rome-Berlin Axis
Munich Crisis/Sudetenland
Battle of Britain
Operation Barbarossa
Wansee Conference
Krystallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass or Crystal Night)
Battle of Stalingrad
The Final Solution
Warsaw Uprising
Operation Overlord
Lebensraum
The “New Order”
Mein Kampf
Maginot Line
Blitzkrieg
Phony War
Spanish Civil War
Case Yellow
“The Blitz”
The final examination will cover chapters 8 and 9 in your text. It will focus on the Nazi dictatorship in Germany 1933-1939; German foreign policy, 1933-1939; and finally World War II in Europe until the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945.
TOPICS COVERED:
- What challenges did Germany face during the early years of the Republic?
- How did German deal with the issues and why were the years from 1924 to 1929 considered years of stability? What was the role of Stresemann?
- How did Germany pursue foreign affairs during the Weimar era?
- How did the Depression affect Germany?
- Be able to discuss the critical year of 1932 including the four elections that year.
- How were the Nazis able to attain power in Germany?
- Be able to discuss the “Brown Revolution” in Germany. What was Germany like under Hitler until 1939? What was the Volksgemeindschaft?
- Understand and be able to describe Hitler’s dictatorship—i.e. How was Hitler able to consolidate power in Germany? i.e. The military, the Church. What was the policy of Gleichschaltung?
- What was the nature of the Third Reich?
- Be able to discuss Hitler’s foreign policy and bloodless victories during the middle and late 1930s. Know why the western democracies were hesitant to try to stop Hitler.
- Also be able to discuss the role of the Spanish Civil war and Axis participation in that conflict
- How did Hitler and Mussolini end up joining forces and creating the Rome-Berlin Axis in the 1930s?
- Be able to discuss the outbreak of war in Poland and the significance of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939. How was Poland defeated? What role did the Soviets play? What tactics did the Germans employ against Poland
- Know and be able to describe the Winter War 1939-1940. What was the significance?
- What was happening in the West from September 1939 to the Spring of 1940—i.e. “Phony War?” What were Hitler’s ambitions in Scandinavia and the Low Countries? Be able to discuss Hitler’s defeat of France.
- Look over the Battle of Britain and the importance of that battle.
- Why did Hitler invade Russia? How did the Russian campaign play out?
- Know the major turning points of the European war—Stalingrad/Kursk, El Alamein
- Be able to explain what the New Order in Europe was and how Germany set up the New Order. Also be able to describe the treatment of occupied countries by the Germans. Be sure to know what led up to the Holocaust and why it happened. Finally, know about the resistance movements in occupied Europe, including the German resistance.
- What led to the German surrender?
TERMS:
Kapp Putsch
Dawes Plan
Young Plan
Gustav Stresemann
Locarno Treaty
Friedrich Ebert
Beer Hall Putsch
Reichstag Fire
Volksgemeindschaft
Burgfrieden
The Erfurt program
Ebert/Gröner Pact
Enabling Act
Reichstag Fire
Gleichschaltung
Rome-Berlin Axis
Munich Crisis/Sudetenland
Battle of Britain
Operation Barbarossa
Wansee Conference
Krystallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass or Crystal Night)
Battle of Stalingrad
The Final Solution
Warsaw Uprising
Operation Overlord
Lebensraum
The “New Order”
Mein Kampf
Maginot Line
Blitzkrieg
Phony War
Spanish Civil War
Case Yellow
“The Blitz”
