Controversy: Efficiency - Dates

Question 1

Anti-Jewish boycott

Answer 1

April 1933

Question 2

Germany withdraws from the League of Nations

Answer 2

October 1933

Question 3

Law on the Head of State of the German Reich (proclaims Hitler to be Fuhrer)

Answer 3

August 1934

Question 4

Reich Local Government Law (gives local Nazi officials more power)

Answer 4

January 1935

Question 5

Anti-German Stresa Front formed

Answer 5

April 1935

Question 6

Anglo-German naval agreement

Answer 6

June 1935

Question 7

Nuremberg rally and passing of the Nuremberg Laws

Answer 7

September 1935

Question 8

German remilitarisation of the Rhineland

Answer 8

March 1936

Question 9

Hitler appoints SS leader - Heinrich Himmler - as chief of the German police

Answer 9

June 1936

Question 10

Hossbach Conference

Answer 10

November 1937

Question 11

Anschluss with Austria

Answer 11

March 1938

Question 12

Decree forbidding Jewish doctors from treating Aryan patients (Gerhard Wagner, working towards the Fuhrer)

Answer 12

June 1938

Question 13

Sudetenland given to Germany (Munich Conference)

Answer 13

September 1938

Question 14

Kristallnacht

Answer 14

9-10 November 1938

Question 15

Goring sets up the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration and puts Heydrich in charge of it

Answer 15

January 1939

Question 16

Germany invades the rest of Czechoslovakia

Answer 16

March 1939

Question 17

Pact of Steel with Italy signed (secured Italian support)

Answer 17

May 1939

Question 18

The Labour Decree

Answer 18

1934

Question 19

Remilitarisation of the Rhineland

Answer 19

March 1936

Question 20

Army swear oath of allegiance to Hitler, under the initiative of General Blomberg

Answer 20

2 August 1934

Question 21

Newarth is replaced by von Ribbentrop as Foreign Minister

Answer 21

1938

Question 22

At a Nuremberg rally, Hitler makes an official sanction for more radical anti-Semitic policies.

Answer 22

1937.

Question 23

SD authorised to act outside the Law regarding anti-Semitic behaviour

Answer 23

1936

Question 24

In this year, Hitler and the Nazis viewed the solution to the Jewish question as emigration to Madagascar or Palestine

Answer 24

1938

Question 25

Blomberg-Fritsch Affair

Answer 25

1938

Question 26

Hitler becomes Commander in Chief of the Army, and removes a further 12 army generals (as well as Blomberg & Fritsch)

Answer 26

January 1938 (after the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair)

Question 27

Hitler ignores aims of the German Foreign Ministry to develop closer relations with the USSR and instead begins to develop hatred for them (interventionist)

Answer 27

1933

Question 28

Hitler signs the four-power pact (to revise Versailles pragmatically)

Answer 28

1934

Question 29

Hitler reintroduces conscription despite apprehension from the army leadership

Answer 29

1935

Question 30

Hitler replaced Newarth as Foreign Minister with von Ribbentrop (Newarth had questioned Hitler's plans to go to war in the near future, and Ribbentrop, though less experienced, was far more radical)

Answer 30

1938

Question 31

Anglo-German Naval agreement (permitted G to build a fleet 35% of Britain's)

Answer 31

1935

Question 32

By this year, Hitler had rebuilt Germany's military and diplomatic strength (economy recovered, army increased to half a million, formed key alliances)

Answer 32

1937

Question 33

Non-agression Pact with Poland (which Hitler undermined in 1939 when he invaded)

Answer 33

1934

Question 34

Hjalmar Schacht is appointed as Minister of Economics, after previously being President of the Reichsbank

Answer 34

August 1934

Question 35

Introduction of the New Plan (regulation of trade and currency transactions, Mefo Bills and Bilateral Trade agreements).

Answer 35

Sept. 1934 (after Schacht is appointed Minster of Economics)

Question 36

Schacht headed domestic policy through Hitler's 'divide and rule' tactic during these years

Answer 36

1933-36

Question 37

Schacht forced to resign as Economics Minister and replaced by Walter Funk (far more radical, who then became willing to be subordinate to Goering in the Four Year Plan)

Answer 37

1937

Question 38

Law on the Head of the State of the German Reich (confirming HItler absorbing powers of Chancellor and Fuhrer as Hindenburg was dying)

Answer 38

1 August 1934

Question 39

Plebiscite on Hitler becoming Fuhrer where he received 89.9% vote in favour

Answer 39

19 August 1934

Question 40

Hitler appoints Himmler as head of all police, centralising government and ending the polycracy between party and state (the police no longer served the state but instead to Fuhrer)

Answer 40

June 1936

Question 41

Hitler authorised Kristallnacht in a private meeting with Goebbels

Answer 41

9 November 1938

Question 42

By this year, 20 million people had the people's radio

Answer 42

1939

Question 43

Hitler's memorandum where he says that Germany needs to be ready for war in 4 years, initiating spending 2/3 of all industrial investment on rearmament (between 1936-9)

Answer 43

1936

Question 44

Great German Art Exhibition in Munich (attended by 600,000 people)

Answer 44

1937

Question 45

Hitler oversees the founding of 125 factory art exhibitions

Answer 45

1935

Question 46

Night of the Long Knives

Answer 46

30 June 1934

Question 47

Aktion T4 Programme

Answer 47

1939

Question 48

'Law to ensure the unity of Party and State' (so vague that it was essentially meaningless)

Answer 48

Dec 1933

Question 49

Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich

Answer 49

1934

Question 50

Establishment of the 'People's Court' (Nazi jury; legal authorities of the state lost influence to the SS-police system who increasingly acted above the Law)

Answer 50

1934

Question 51

Cabinet didn't meet after this date

Answer 51

1938

Question 52

Labour Front Decree

Answer 52

October 1934

Question 53

Meeting between Rudolf Hess (who believed Hitler would want all Jews to emigrate) and Ministry of the Interior (who felt they should be kept as hostages) where Hitler didn't intervene

Answer 53

November 1935