First Austrian Republic

First Austrian Republic - Quiz

1. Which body represented the federal states in the new constitution?

A) National Council
B) Federal Council
C) Supreme Court
D) Parliamentary Assembly

2. How long was the term of the Federal President?

A) Six years
B) Five years
C) Four years
D) Two years

3. Which party led the first government of 1919–1920?

A) Social Democrats
B) Christian Social Party
C) Landbund
D) Greater German People's Party

4. Who was the first Chancellor of the Christian Social Party?

A) Karl Renner
B) Rudolf Ramek
C) Ignaz Seipel
D) Otto Ender

5. In what year were the Social Democrats banned?

A) 1930
B) 1934
C) 1929
D) 1927

6. Who was elected Federal President after the 1920 elections?

A) Wilhelm Miklas
B) Karl Renner
C) Ignaz Seipel
D) Michael Hainisch

7. What power was granted to the Federal President in the 1929 constitutional amendment?

A) Drafting legislation
B) Issuing emergency laws
C) Declaring war
D) Leading the military

8. What was the name of the Social Democrat paramilitary force?

A) Republikanischer Schutzbund
B) Heimwehr
C) Landbund
D) Schattendorf Guard

9. Which city was famously controlled by the Social Democrats?

A) Vienna
B) Salzburg
C) Innsbruck
D) Graz

10. What triggered the July Revolt of 1927?

A) Acquittal of shooters in Schattendorf
B) The election of Engelbert Dollfuss
C) The banning of the Social Democrat party
D) The collapse of the coalition government

11. How many people were killed by police and army during the 1927 revolt?

A) 100
B) 20
C) 89
D) 600

12. Who succeeded Ignaz Seipel in 1924?

A) Rudolf Ramek
B) Otto Ender
C) Michael Hainisch
D) Wilhelm Miklas

13. What were the two houses of the legislature called?

A) Upper House and Lower House
B) Diet and Congress
C) Federal Council and National Council
D) Senate and Parliament

14. How was the Chancellor elected?

A) By the Federal President
B) By the Federal Council
C) By popular vote
D) By the National Council

15. When was the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye signed?

A) 1 October 1920
B) 10 September 1919
C) 7 December 1929
D) 10 October 1920

16. Which authoritarian leader established the Federal State of Austria in 1934?

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Engelbert Dollfuss
C) Franz Joseph I
D) Adolf Hitler

17. Which term describes the forbidden union between Austria and Germany?

A) Cisleithania
B) Plebiscite
C) Anschluss
D) Rump state

18. Which region was ceded to Italy under the Treaty of Saint-Germain?

A) South Tyrol
B) Carinthia
C) Burgenland
D) Sudetenland

19. What event occurred on October 10, 1920, regarding Carinthia?

A) A military invasion
B) A plebiscite
C) The capital was moved
D) The signing of a treaty

20. What was the previous name of Burgenland before it became part of Austria?

A) Western Hungary
B) Sudetenland
C) South Tyrol
D) Cisleithania

21. Which US President's 'Fourteen Points' were cited by Austrians to protest the treaty?

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) William Howard Taft
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Woodrow Wilson

22. What percentage of Austria's land was arable after the 1919 borders were set?

A) 10 percent
B) 17.8 percent
C) 70 percent
D) 50 percent

23. Which city remained in Hungary after a disputed plebiscite?

A) Carinthia
B) Sopron
C) Vienna
D) Salzburg

24. The constitution of the Republic was enacted in which year?

A) 1920
B) 1919
C) 1927
D) 1934

25. What political group did Engelbert Dollfuss lead?

A) The Austrian Monarchist Party
B) Fatherland Front
C) The Habsburg Party
D) The League of Nations

26. How many people lived in Vienna after the collapse of the empire?

A) 1 million
B) 6.5 million
C) Almost 2 million
D) 4 million

27. What was the justification used by many Austrians to argue for union with Germany?

A) Self-determination
B) Economic prosperity
C) Military strength
D) Religious unity

28. What was the main reason the new Austrian state faced economic control difficulties?

A) Important economic regions were lost to new nation-states.
B) A global surplus of coal caused inflation.
C) The country had too many gold reserves.
D) The government refused to use the banking system.

29. What was the value of one US dollar in Austrian Kronen by 1922?

A) 650,000 Kronen.
B) 19,000 Kronen.
C) 500 Kronen.
D) 1,000 Kronen.

30. Which year did the Austrian schilling replace the Krone?

A) 1924.
B) 1931.
C) 1926.
D) 1921.

31. What event caused the collapse of Austria's largest bank, Creditanstalt, in 1931?

A) The July Putsch.
B) A sudden drop in the price of gold.
C) The Great Depression.
D) The end of the Treaty of Lana.

32. What was the inspiration for the Fatherland Front's ideology?

A) The Treaty of Lana.
B) The British parliamentary system.
C) The papal encyclical Quadragesimo anno.
D) The 1922 austerity policies.

33. What did Dollfuss use to argue against union with Germany?

A) The strong military support from France.
B) The economic success of the schilling.
C) Tying Austrian identity to the Catholic Church.
D) The high industrial capacity of Austria.

34. What was the name of the authoritarian constitution proclaimed in 1934?

A) Fatherland Constitution.
B) July Putsch Document.
C) Schuschnigg Accord.
D) May Constitution.

35. Which country promised military support to Austria against potential German invasion in 1934?

A) France.
B) Britain.
C) Fascist Italy.
D) Czechoslovakia.

36. Who succeeded Engelbert Dollfuss as Chancellor?

A) The leader of the Heimwehr.
B) Kurt Schuschnigg.
C) Benito Mussolini.
D) Ignaz Seipel.

37. When did the international supervision of Austrian finances end?

A) May 1933.
B) December 1921.
C) October 1922.
D) March 1926.

38. What term describes the system of state control over employer-employee relations?

A) Quadragesimo anno.
B) Anschluss.
C) Heimwehr.
D) Ständestaat.

39. What did the Austrian Nazi party want for Austria?

A) To join Italy.
B) To join Germany.
C) To restore the monarchy.
D) To form an economic union with France.

40. What did Kurt Schuschnigg ban in 1936?

A) The Heimwehr.
B) The use of the schilling.
C) All Catholic organizations.
D) The Christian Social Party.

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