Book 2 - 1929-1934

Question 1

How many were unemployed in 1932?

Answer 1

6 million

Question 2

Three points about NSDAP?

Answer 2

• set up in July 1923
• Hitler was Fuhrer
• formally known as DAP

Question 3

When was the Munich Putsch?

Answer 3

8 November 1923

Question 4

When was Hitler’s trial

Answer 4

February 1924

Question 5

When was the Bamberg Conference?

Answer 5

1926

Question 6

How long did the Great Depression last?

Answer 6

1929- 1933

Question 7

When was Bruning appointed and what did he do?

Answer 7

• March 1930
• Called general election in September 1930
• cut unemployment benefits

Question 8

What did Hitler use in Presidential election of 1932

Answer 8

propaganda

Question 9

Who was the general who helped Hitler in the Munich Putsch

Answer 9

General Ludendorff

Question 10

What happened in the election of July 1932

Answer 10

Hitler had majority but Von Papen did not step down

Question 11

When did Hitler became Chancellor of Germany?

Answer 11

January 1933

Question 12

When was the Reichstag fire and what did he do after?

Answer 12

27 February 1933 and Enabling act

Question 13

When did Hitler became Fuhrer and why?

Answer 13

President died and on 2 August 1934

Question 14

When was the Night of the Long knives?

Answer 14

30 June 1934

Question 15

How long did Hitler serve in prison?

Answer 15

• sentenced to a minimum of five years

- Hitler only served 9 months

Question 16

What did Mein Kampf contain?

Answer 16

• 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)

Question 17

What happened at the Bamberg conference?

Answer 17

• won over rivals, Goebbels
• created the SS
• introduced Hitler youth
• attacked Weimar

Question 18

How did the Great depression impact Germany?

Answer 18

• 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

Question 19

Who did the Nazi’s receive funds from?

Answer 19

leading industrials such as Thyssen, Krupp and Bosch

Question 20

Who were the communist private army?

Answer 20

• Red front fighters

Question 21

When was the enabling act?

Answer 21

23 March 1933

Question 22

How did Hitler use the enabling act?

Answer 22

• 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)