Book 2 - 1929-1934 Flashcards
How many were unemployed in 1932?
6 million
Three points about NSDAP?
- set up in July 1923
- Hitler was Fuhrer
- formally known as DAP
When was the Munich Putsch?
8 November 1923
When was Hitler’s trial
February 1924
When was the Bamberg Conference?
1926
How long did the Great Depression last?
1929- 1933
When was Bruning appointed and what did he do?
- March 1930
- Called general election in September 1930
- cut unemployment benefits
What did Hitler use in Presidential election of 1932
propaganda
Who was the general who helped Hitler in the Munich Putsch
General Ludendorff
What happened in the election of July 1932
Hitler had majority but Von Papen did not step down
When did Hitler became Chancellor of Germany?
January 1933
When was the Reichstag fire and what did he do after?
27 February 1933 and Enabling act
When did Hitler became Fuhrer and why?
President died and on 2 August 1934
When was the Night of the Long knives?
30 June 1934
How long did Hitler serve in prison?
- sentenced to a minimum of five years
- Hitler only served 9 months
What did Mein Kampf contain?
- Volksgemeinschaft (nationalism)
- Abolition of the Treaty of Versailles
- Anti- Semitism (problems were caused by Jews)
- Anti- communist
- Social dwarfism (his idea of an aryan race, more superior)
- Lebensraum (create a greater Germany, where all German speaking people would be under one nation)
What happened at the Bamberg conference?
- won over rivals, Goebbels
- created the SS
- introduced Hitler youth
- attacked Weimar
How did the Great depression impact Germany?
- Banks and financers withdrew the loans made under the Dawe’s plan in 1924
- demand for goods fell, more fired workers
- international trade began to contract, German exports fell
- factories closed
- food prices fell
- Germans can’t pay rent, became homeless
Who did the Nazi’s receive funds from?
leading industrials such as Thyssen, Krupp and Bosch
Who were the communist private army?
- Red front fighters
When was the enabling act?
23 March 1933
How did Hitler use the enabling act?
- control of the press
- ban on political parties
- purge of civil service (removed Jews and political opposition from civil service)
- banned trade unions
- control of the states (abolished state assemblies, replaced with Reich governers)
