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German Empire multiple choice

The German Empire existed from 1871 until 1918. Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the Kaiserreich?
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1. The Wars of German Unification was a series of conflicts where Prussia expelled Austria from inter-German cooperation and asserted its dominance over the other German-speaking states. Which of these wars were not among the Unification Wars?
Third Silesian War
Austro-Prussian War
Second Schleswig War
Franco-Prussian War
As the name implies, the Third Silesian War was the last of the Silesian Wars (1740-1763).
2. Which area, with the status of Imperial Territory, was annexed by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War and returned to France after World War 1?
East Cantons
Alsace-Lorraine
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Neutral Moresnet
The Alsace-Lorraine region was part of France until 1871, but was integrated into the German Empire after the war. It was returned to France after World War 1, but Nazi Germany briefly re-took it during World War 2.
3. Who was the first and most famous Chancellor of the German Empire, serving from the Empire's foundation in 1871 until being dismissed by the young Emperor Wilhelm II in 1890?
Bernhard von Bülow
Adolf Hitler
Klemens von Metternich
Otto von Bismarck
Bismarck was also made Minister President (the state-level equivalent of Chancellor) of Prussia in 1862, and continued in this capacity until 1890. He was also Chancellor of the North German Confederation, the predecessor of the German Empire, for its entire existence 1867-1871.
4. The "Dreikaiserjahr", or Year of Three Emperors, was a year when the German Empire had three different people sitting on the imperial throne. But what year was it?
1888
1908
1898
1858
5. At the start of the aforementioned Year of Three Emperors, the sitting Kaiser was Wilhelm I. He died and was succeeded by his son, but the son died after three months as Kaiser, and was succeeded by Wilhelm I's grandson, Wilhelm II. What was the name of the son who was the middle emperor?
Heinrich (Henry)
Wilhelm I.5 (William I.5)
Friedrich III (Frederick III)
Adalbert II
Friedrich III had been diagnosed with throat cancer before his accession to the throne, and died from the disease after three months.
6. Germany had a colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific. After World War 1, they were given to other countries, mostly France and the UK. Which of these was not a German colony?
German South West Africa (Namibia)
Samoa
Argentina
Togoland (Togo)
Argentina was a Spanish colony, gaining its independence in 1816 during the Latin American Wars of Independence:
7. What was the German Empire's parliament called?
The Schnitzelgewehr
The Landtag
The Bundestag
The Reichstag
The name "Reichstag", meaning Imperial Diet, was retained during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and Nazi Germany (1933-1945). When the Allied occupation of Germany ended in 1949, it was decided that the word "Reich" had become too closely associated with the Nazis, so government institutions were renamed from Reichs(something) to Bundes(something). The modern German parliament, since 1949, is called the Bundestag, meaning Federal Diet. "Landtag" is the name of the parliaments in Germany's 16 states. "Schnitzelgewehr" is a made-up word meaning "Schnitzel Gun".
8. Besides German, what was the most common language in the Kaiser's Germany?
Polish
Danish
Dutch
Sindarin
The Poles were the largest ethnic minority group of Imperial Germany, and many Polish-majority lands in eastern Germany became part of newly independent Poland after World War 1.
9. Wilhelm II was the maternal grandson of which British monarch?
Queen Mary
Queen Latifah
Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth
10. During the latter half of World War 1, the Kaiser left much of the day-to-day business of government to his military officers in the General Staff. This period, known as the Silent Dictatorship, saw two generals in particular taking charge. One of them was Paul von Hindenburg, but who was the other?
Alfred von Schlieffen
Erich Ludendorff
Ulysses S. Grant
August von Mackensen
Schlieffen, who died in 1913, helped develop the Schlieffen plan which suggest going around the Maginot Line in case of war with France.
11. After the armistice that ended fighting in World War 1, a series of treaties were made, one with each of the defeated Central Powers. What is the name of the treaty made with Germany?
The Treaty of Condom
The Treaty of Sevres
The Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Versailles
Condom is the name of a real town in France, but no treaty has ever been signed there. Trianon was the treaty with the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary, and Sevres was with the Ottoman Empire (later renegotiated after the Turkish War of Independence).
12. What term did the Nazis use for the German Empire?
Robert Reich
Second Reich
First Reich
Third Reich
The Nazis saw the Holy Roman Empire (962-1806) as being the "First Reich", the German Empire (1871-1918) as being the "Second Reich", and Nazi Germany (1933-1945) as being the "Third Reich". Robert Reich was the US secretary of labor 1993-1997.
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