| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Name the 4 biggest rivers in Germany? | Elbe. Oder. Rhine. Vistula |
| What is Germany's longest river? | The Rhine. 1320km |
| Who is kissing on the wall? | Heinrich Honecker. Leonid Brezhnev |
| What is the motif of the old Prussian Army? | The Death's Head |
| How many types of German are there? | Hochdeutsch-High German. Plattdeutsch-Low German |
| What is the difference between High German and Low German? | A consonant shift in High German |
| When did the change in spoken German take place? | 8th century |
| What language group does German belong to? | Indo-Germanic |
| What other languages is German related to? | Danish, Dutch, English, Norwegian, Swedish |
| How many countries border Germany? | 9 |
| Which countries border Germany? | Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland |
| When did the German selling reform take place? | 1996 |
| Why is Henry Kissinger famous? | He was Secretary of State in the Nixon administration |
| Why is Werner von Braun famous? | He was a rocket Physicist |
| Why was Levi Strauss famous? | He founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans |
| Why was Albert Einstein famous? | He was a Physicist known for his Theory of Relativity |
| What is the Fernsehturm and why was it built?? | A TV tower. To demonstrate the permanence of East Berlin. |
| How high is the Fernsehturm and when was it built? | 365m, during the 60's. |
| What is the Marienkirche? | The oldest Parish church in Berlin |
| What is the Neptunbrunnen and when was it built? | A fountain built in 1891 |
| What do the 4 women around the Neptunbrunnen represent? | The 4 most important rivers in Germany |
| What is the Rotes Rathaus? | Town Hall and home to the Government of Berlin |
| What is the second largest city after Berlin? | Hamburg |
| Why is Hamburg important? | Second largest port in Europe after Rotterdam |
| Where is East Frisia and how many islands are there? | West Germany. 7 |
| How many Federal States are there in Germany? | 16 |
| Which is the biggest and the smallest Federal State? | North Rhine Westphalia and Saarland |
| What is the Federal State of Berlin? | Brandenburg |
| Who is Sigmar Polke? | A Painter and Photographer |
| Who is Wolf Biermann? | A songwriter of folk music and political ballads |
| Who was Stefan Heym? | A German-Jewish writer |
| Who was Heinrich Böll? | A German writer |
| Who is Gerhard Richter? | A German artist |
| When did the Wall come down? | 9 November 1989 |
| When was the Wall built? | August 1961 |
| When was Kristallnacht? | 9-10 November 1938 |
| What was Kristallnacht? | Crystal Night. An anti-Jewish pogrom. |
| What is Dadaism? | an art movement that mocked artistic and social conventions. |
| Who was Heinrich Himmler? | The most powerful man in Nazi Germany |
| What is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church? | a Protestant Church |
| What is the Kurfürstendamm? | one of Berlin's most famous avenues |
| Who was Rosa Luxemburg? x3 | Communist revolutionary. Marxist. Co-founder of the Spartacist League |
| What is Bauhaus? Who? Where? When? | a school of design. Established by Walter Gropius. In Weimar. In 1919 |
| What is the DDR? | Die Deutsche Demokratische Republik. The Democratic Republic of Germany. |
| What is the SS? | The paramilitary Unit of Nazi Germany. |
| Who were the Gestapo? | Secret Police of Nazi Germany under the SS |
| What is the Iron Curtain? | The wall |
| Who was Nikita Khrushchev? When? | Secretary General of the Soviet Union Communist Party (after Stalin and before Brezhnev) |
| Who was Erich Honecker? When? | Leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1971-1989 |
| Who was Ernst vom Rath? | A German diplomat (shot by a Jewish youth at the German Embassy in Paris which sparked Kristallnacht.) |
| What is a Putsch? | An attempt to overthrow a government. |
| Who was Herschel Grynszpan? | A Jewish youth (that assassinated Vom Rath in Paris which sparked Kristallnacht) |
| Who was Joseph Goebbels? | Hitler's propaganda minister |
| Who was Kaiser Wilhelm I? | The first German Emperor and the King of Prussia from 1861-1888. He established the German Empire. |
| What is Reichsführer-SS? | Commanding General |
| What is Wehrmacht? | The defense force of Nazi Germany |
| What is Luftwaffe? | German Air Force |
| How many inhabitants in Berlin? | about 3.4 million |
| What is the emblem of Germany? | An eagle |
| What is the German anthem? | Kaiserhymne by Haydn |
| When is the Day of German Unity? | October 3. National Holiday |
| How many inhabitants in Germany? | About 82 million |
| What is Germany | Zugspitze 2963m |
| What is the German parliament? | Bundestag |
| How many foreigners in Germany? | 7 million, 9% of the population |
| What are the major groups of immigrants in Germany? | Turks. Italians. Former Communist country repatriates of German descent. Poland, Romania, Soviet Union |
| Who were the Freikorps? | Right-wing death squads |
| What was Prussia? | A former (imperial) kingdom of Germany and abolished after Germany's defeat in WW1 |
| Who was Otto Bismarck? | Chancellor of the German Empire |
| What were Germany's colonies? | Parts of the Pacific. Samoa. Soloman Islands.Tanzania |
| What was The Hohenzollern kingdom ? | A German dynastic family. |
| What and when was The Weimar Republic? | The republic that replaced Prussia. 1919-1933. (A liberal democracy which fell after Hitler gained power.) |
| What are the Nuremburg Laws? | Anti-Semitic laws written in 1935 in Nuremburg |
| How many boroughs are there in Berlin? Name them: | 13. Reinickendorf. Pankow. Spandau. Charlottenburg-Wlimersdorf. Mitte. Friedrichshain. Kreuzberg. Lichtenberg. Marzahn-Hellersdorf. Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Neukölln. Treptow-Köpenick |
| Who was Heinrich Honecker? | Former East German Communist Leader |
| Who was Leonid Brezhnev? | Former Soviet Communist Leader |
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