6.1A&B How Did Hitler Eliminate His Opposition?

Question 1

Dictator def

Answer 1

-Ruler with total control over how a country is governed

Question 2

Enabling Act def

Answer 2

-A law passed in1933 that allowed the Nazis to make their own laws without consulting the Reichstag

Question 3

Gestapo def

Answer 3

-Part of the SS and Nazi Germany’s secret police force, created by Herman Goering in 1933 and controlled by Heinrich Himmler

Question 4

Concentration camp def

Answer 4

-Camp in which people are held under harsh conditions and without the freedoms of the rest of society

Question 5

What event happened on 27 Feb 1933 and how did it increase Hitlers power?

Answer 5

-Reichstag burned down
-evidence of a Communist plot
-Hitler asked Hindenburg to ban Communist party

Question 6

What event happened on 28 Feb 1933 and how did it increase Hitlers power?

Answer 6

-Hitler asked Hindeburg to pass ‘Protection Law’
-Giving Hitler power to deal with Germany’s problems

Question 7

What event happened on 23 March 1933 and how did it increase Hitlers power?

Answer 7

-Fear of communists persuaded politicians to join Nazis
-Hitler now has a majority in Reichstag
-Forced the Reichstag to pass the Enabling Act

Question 8

What event happened on 7 April 1933 and how did it increase Hitlers power?

Answer 8

-Nazis in charge of local gov and councils
-Gestapo formed
-1st concentration camp formed (Dachau) for political prisoners

Question 9

What event happened on 2 May 1933 and how did it increase Hitlers power?

Answer 9

-Hitler banned all trade unions
-Workers can now be exploited

Question 10

What event happened on 2 August 1934 and how did it increase Hitlers power?

Answer 10

-Murdered SA opponents
-Hindenburg died
-Hitler took over Presidents job and Chancellor.
-He titled himself Deh Fuhrer
-Made the army swear an oath of loyalty to him

Question 11

Deh Fuhrer

Answer 11

-Supreme leader, title adopted by Hitler