Coursework: Assess Significance Great Depression on Germany

What percentage of Germany’s workforce was unemployed by 1932?

• 10%

• 20%

• 30%

• 50%

Which group in society experienced the sharpest loss of confidence due to the Depression?

• Industrialists

• Youth and working-class voters

• Teachers

• Soldiers

What was the approximate fall in German industrial output between 1929 and 1932?

• 10%

• 25%

• 40%

• 60%

The Nazi Party’s electoral breakthrough in 1930 can best be attributed to:

• Their support from the Communist Party

• Growing public disillusionment due to economic collapse

• The Treaty of Versailles

• Stresemann’s foreign policy

Which class did the Depression push towards far-right politics in Germany?

• Rural peasants

• Conservative elites

• Urban middle class

• Trade unionists

The collapse of which five major institutions in 1931 triggered a full banking crisis?

• Insurance firms

• Investment houses

• German banks

• Trade unions

Which party suffered a major loss of credibility as a result of the Depression?

• DNVP

• SPD

• NSDAP

• KPD

The Depression’s effect on the Weimar welfare system included:

• Universal benefits for all

• Increase in pension schemes

• Cuts to unemployment benefits and denial to many

• Full medical care provision

Who were Brüning’s economic policies most harmful to?

• Industrial cartels

• Unemployed Germans

• German aristocrats

• German colonies

The rise in support for Hitler between 1930 and 1932 was largely due to:

• Anti-Americanism

• Economic despair

• Cultural revival

• Treaty revisionism