2.3 Hitler’s Dictatorship

Question 1

When was the Reichstag burned down?

Answer 1

27th February 1933

Question 2

Who did the Nazi’s blame for the Reichstag fire?

Answer 2

Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch communist.

Question 3

What did the Reichstag cure allow Hitler to do?

Answer 3

Pass and Emergency Decree, suspending the Weimar constitution.

Question 4

When was the 1933 German election day?

Answer 4

5th March 1933

Question 5

How much % of votes did the Nazi’s win in the 1933 election?

Answer 5

43.9%

Question 6

How many % of votes did the DNVP win in the 1933 German election?

Answer 6

7.9%

Question 7

According to the Weimar system of Proportional representation, a coalition of parties needed how much % of votes to rule?

Answer 7

50%

Question 8

How many votes did the Nazi-DNVP coalition get in the 1933 German election?

Answer 8

51.9%

Question 9

When did Hitler propose the Enabling Act?

Answer 9

23rd March 1933

Question 10

What would the Enabling Act mean?

Answer 10

That Hitler could make laws without the Reichstag’s input.

Question 11

How many did the Reichstag support the Enabling Act by and to?

Answer 11

444 votes to 94

Question 12

What did the Enabling Act stop Germany being?

Answer 12

A democracy.

Question 13

On what day were all political parties banned apart from the Nazi Party?

Answer 13

14th July 1933

Question 14

What happened to trade union leaders in May 1933?

Answer 14

They were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

Question 15

What were workers forced to join after trade unions were banned?

Answer 15

The German Labour Front (DAF)

Question 16

What 2 people did Hitler feel threatened his power?

Answer 16

SA
Röhm

Question 17

What 2 people were killed in The Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 17

Röhm
von Schleicher

Question 18

What was The Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 18

When Hitler used the SS to get rid of SA members, 400 member were killed.

Question 19

Who was Hitler’s most powerful rival?

Answer 19

Röhm

Question 20

What were the 2 reasons that The Night of the Long Knives happen?

Answer 20

-removing opposition (Röhm and von Schleicher)
-to gain the support of the General Werner von Blomberg.

Question 21

What do historians believe happened on a German battleship on 9th April 1934?

Answer 21

Blomberg agreed to support Hitler as the leader if he reduced the SA’s power and grew the German army

Question 22

When did President Hindenburg die?

Answer 22

August 1934.

Question 23

What 2 roles did Hitler merge together when Hindenburg died?

Answer 23

Chancellor and President, naming himself the Führer

Question 24

What did Hitler call his regime?

Answer 24

The ‘Third Reich’

Question 25

How long did Hitler believe his regime the ‘Third Reich’ last?

Answer 25

1000 years.

Question 26

How was loyalty to Hitler shown?

Answer 26

Through the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute.

Question 27

What did Hitler force the army to swear an oath of?

Answer 27

An oath of allegiance (loyalty) to him, not Germany.

Question 28

Who were provinces run by?

Answer 28

A Gauleiter, a trusted Nazi.

Question 29

Who did Gauleiters report to?

Answer 29

Reichsleiters

Question 30

Who did the Reichsleiters report to?

Answer 30

Hitler

Question 31

What was Goebbels?

Answer 31

A Reichsleiter, who focus was propaganda.

Question 32

What did the 1934 Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich give Hitler?

Answer 32

Total control of local governments.