15.3

Question 1

what was at the core of hitler’s ideas?

Answer 1

racism, especially anti-socialism

Question 2

what theory did hitler emphasize in mein kampf?

Answer 2

the right of “superior” nations to Lebensraum through expansion

Question 3

how did the economic climate in germany help the nazis rise to power?

Answer 3

unemployment risen dramatically, growing in size

Question 4

how did the enabling act give hitler control of germany?

Answer 4

is gave hitler’s actions a legal basis

Question 5

what did the nazis do with their new power?

Answer 5

the nazis brought all instututions under their control and blamed the jews for their economic wars

Question 6

how did hitler manipulate the term “aryan” for nazi purposes?

Answer 6

the nazis treated the term as a radical designation and indentifying the aryans with the greeks and romans

Question 7

what were the nuremberg laws?

Answer 7

laws that defined who was considered a jew; they stripped jews of their german citizenship and civil rights

Question 8

what was Kristallnacht?

Answer 8

a rampage where nazis burned synagouges and destroyed 7000 jewish businesses

Question 9

how did the nazis promote their ideas?

Answer 9

nazi regime adopted a program called kraft durch freude which offered leisure to amuse the working class