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  • 1. Which body represented the federal states in the new constitution?
A) Federal Council
B) National Council
C) Parliamentary Assembly
D) Supreme Court
  • 2. How long was the term of the Federal President?
A) Four years
B) Five years
C) Six years
D) Two years
  • 3. Which party led the first government of 1919–1920?
A) Social Democrats
B) Landbund
C) Christian Social Party
D) Greater German People's Party
  • 4. Who was the first Chancellor of the Christian Social Party?
A) Ignaz Seipel
B) Karl Renner
C) Otto Ender
D) Rudolf Ramek
  • 5. In what year were the Social Democrats banned?
A) 1929
B) 1930
C) 1927
D) 1934
  • 6. Who was elected Federal President after the 1920 elections?
A) Karl Renner
B) Michael Hainisch
C) Wilhelm Miklas
D) Ignaz Seipel
  • 7. What power was granted to the Federal President in the 1929 constitutional amendment?
A) Leading the military
B) Declaring war
C) Drafting legislation
D) Issuing emergency laws
  • 8. What was the name of the Social Democrat paramilitary force?
A) Landbund
B) Schattendorf Guard
C) Heimwehr
D) Republikanischer Schutzbund
  • 9. Which city was famously controlled by the Social Democrats?
A) Vienna
B) Innsbruck
C) Salzburg
D) Graz
  • 10. What triggered the July Revolt of 1927?
A) The collapse of the coalition government
B) The banning of the Social Democrat party
C) Acquittal of shooters in Schattendorf
D) The election of Engelbert Dollfuss
  • 11. How many people were killed by police and army during the 1927 revolt?
A) 20
B) 89
C) 600
D) 100
  • 12. Who succeeded Ignaz Seipel in 1924?
A) Michael Hainisch
B) Wilhelm Miklas
C) Rudolf Ramek
D) Otto Ender
  • 13. What were the two houses of the legislature called?
A) Upper House and Lower House
B) Federal Council and National Council
C) Diet and Congress
D) Senate and Parliament
  • 14. How was the Chancellor elected?
A) By the Federal Council
B) By popular vote
C) By the Federal President
D) By the National Council
  • 15. When was the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye signed?
A) 10 September 1919
B) 1 October 1920
C) 10 October 1920
D) 7 December 1929
  • 16. Which authoritarian leader established the Federal State of Austria in 1934?
A) Franz Joseph I
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Engelbert Dollfuss
D) Adolf Hitler
  • 17. Which term describes the forbidden union between Austria and Germany?
A) Plebiscite
B) Anschluss
C) Cisleithania
D) Rump state
  • 18. Which region was ceded to Italy under the Treaty of Saint-Germain?
A) Burgenland
B) Sudetenland
C) Carinthia
D) South Tyrol
  • 19. What event occurred on October 10, 1920, regarding Carinthia?
A) A plebiscite
B) A military invasion
C) The signing of a treaty
D) The capital was moved
  • 20. What was the previous name of Burgenland before it became part of Austria?
A) Sudetenland
B) Western Hungary
C) South Tyrol
D) Cisleithania
  • 21. Which US President's 'Fourteen Points' were cited by Austrians to protest the treaty?
A) William Howard Taft
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • 22. What percentage of Austria's land was arable after the 1919 borders were set?
A) 17.8 percent
B) 70 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 10 percent
  • 23. Which city remained in Hungary after a disputed plebiscite?
A) Carinthia
B) Salzburg
C) Vienna
D) Sopron
  • 24. The constitution of the Republic was enacted in which year?
A) 1934
B) 1927
C) 1920
D) 1919
  • 25. What political group did Engelbert Dollfuss lead?
A) Fatherland Front
B) The League of Nations
C) The Austrian Monarchist Party
D) The Habsburg Party
  • 26. How many people lived in Vienna after the collapse of the empire?
A) Almost 2 million
B) 6.5 million
C) 1 million
D) 4 million
  • 27. What was the justification used by many Austrians to argue for union with Germany?
A) Economic prosperity
B) Self-determination
C) Military strength
D) Religious unity
  • 28. What was the main reason the new Austrian state faced economic control difficulties?
A) A global surplus of coal caused inflation.
B) The government refused to use the banking system.
C) Important economic regions were lost to new nation-states.
D) The country had too many gold reserves.
  • 29. What was the value of one US dollar in Austrian Kronen by 1922?
A) 500 Kronen.
B) 1,000 Kronen.
C) 19,000 Kronen.
D) 650,000 Kronen.
  • 30. Which year did the Austrian schilling replace the Krone?
A) 1931.
B) 1924.
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 papal encyclical Quadragesimo anno.
B) The 1922 austerity policies.
C) The British parliamentary system.
D) The Treaty of Lana.
  • 33. What did Dollfuss use to argue against union with Germany?
A) The strong military support from France.
B) Tying Austrian identity to the Catholic Church.
C) The high industrial capacity of Austria.
D) The economic success of the schilling.
  • 34. What was the name of the authoritarian constitution proclaimed in 1934?
A) May Constitution.
B) Fatherland Constitution.
C) Schuschnigg Accord.
D) July Putsch Document.
  • 35. Which country promised military support to Austria against potential German invasion in 1934?
A) Britain.
B) France.
C) Fascist Italy.
D) Czechoslovakia.
  • 36. Who succeeded Engelbert Dollfuss as Chancellor?
A) Kurt Schuschnigg.
B) Benito Mussolini.
C) The leader of the Heimwehr.
D) Ignaz Seipel.
  • 37. When did the international supervision of Austrian finances end?
A) March 1926.
B) December 1921.
C) May 1933.
D) October 1922.
  • 38. What term describes the system of state control over employer-employee relations?
A) Heimwehr.
B) Anschluss.
C) Ständestaat.
D) Quadragesimo anno.
  • 39. What did the Austrian Nazi party want for Austria?
A) To restore the monarchy.
B) To join Italy.
C) To form an economic union with France.
D) To join Germany.
  • 40. What did Kurt Schuschnigg ban in 1936?
A) The Christian Social Party.
B) The Heimwehr.
C) All Catholic organizations.
D) The use of the schilling.
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