Controversy: Popularity - Dates Flashcards

1
Q

Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda created, with Goebbels at its head

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March 1933

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2
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Sopade (SPD movement in exile) founded

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1933

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3
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Editor’s Law calls for ‘racially pure’ journalism

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October 1933

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4
Q

Plebiscite held to confirm one party rule in Germany (88% voted in favour)

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November 1933

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5
Q

Beauty of Labour and Kraft lurch Freud (Strength through Joy) set up

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November 1933

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6
Q

Marburg Speech

A

June 1934

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7
Q

Night of the Long Knives

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June 1934

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8
Q

Law Concerning Measures for the Defence of the State (issued to justify the government’s actions in the Night of the Long Knives)

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July 1934

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9
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Death of President Hindenburg

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August 1934

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10
Q

Plebiscite confirms Hitler as Hindenburg’s successor and Fuhrer (89.8% supported it) (But 4 millions still voted against it)

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August 1934

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11
Q

Hjalmar Schacht introduces the ‘New Plan’

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September 1934

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12
Q

Public launch of the Rearmament programme

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1935

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13
Q

Himmler placed in overall control of policing in Germany

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1936

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14
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Hermann Goring put in charge of the Office of the Four Year Plan

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1936

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15
Q

Schacht resigns as Minister of Economics (disagreements over foreign policy)

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November 1937

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16
Q

Blomberg-Fritsch Affair

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January 1938

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17
Q

Hitler Youth Law (makes membership of Hitler Youth compulsory)

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March 1939

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18
Q

Reich Security Head Office founded (centralises all security/terror in Third Reich)

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September 1939

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19
Q

Sports Palace Speech in Berlin (Hitler outlined his intentions to destroy the ‘Marxist threat’

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February 1933

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20
Q

Emergency Decree for the Protection of People and State

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28 February 1933

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21
Q

Reichstag Fire

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27 February 1933

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22
Q

Emergency Decree for the Protection of People and State (took away all personal liberties and established the platform for dictatorship)

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28 February 1933

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23
Q

Himmler (leader of SS) set up Dachau in Bavaria

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March 1933

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24
Q

By this time, the Nazis controlled the parliamentary assemblies of all regions

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April 1933

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25
Q

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (made legal the purge of areas of the civil service which had ‘unreliable’ political elements).

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April 1933

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26
Q

Nazi Book Burning (burning the books of ‘forbidden’ authors in Berlin)

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10 May 1933

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27
Q

Rohm contacts the Defence Minister, Blomberg, demanding that the SA be allowed to take over national defence (placed Hitler in a position to choose to support either the armed forces of the SA)

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February 1934

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28
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Formation of the Security Service (SD) of the SS, under Heydrich

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1931

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29
Q

Himmler placed in overall control of policing in Germany (he now controlled the security service - Sipo -, the regular police - Orpo - and the security police - SD).

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1936

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30
Q

Law to Reduce Unemployment (introduced ‘Arbeitdienst’ - work schemes)

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June 1933

31
Q

Regime launched the ‘Battle for Production’ to increase gain production and help peasantry

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1934-5

32
Q

Regime introduced Conscription

A

1935

33
Q

Hjalmar Schacht appointed as President of Reichsbank

A

May 1933

34
Q

Hjalmar Schacht made Minister of Economics (and soon after introduces the ‘New Plan’

A

1934

35
Q

Schacht negotiates bilateral trade agreements with countries in South America and South-East Europe

A

1934

36
Q

Schacht resigned (removal of a constraint within the party on radicalism)

A

1937

37
Q

Trade Unions ransacked

A

2 May 1933 (day after May Day holiday)

38
Q

The Hossbach Conference

A

November 1937

39
Q

Hitler holds his last ever Cabinet meeting

A

February 1938

40
Q

By this time, the Conservative establishments were very much tied to the regime

A

Mid-1930s

41
Q

The Concordat signed

A

June 1933

42
Q

Banning of crucifixes in schools

A

1935

43
Q

Banning of Catholic Youth Groups

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1936

44
Q

Membership of the Hitler Youth was declared compulsory (in the ‘Hitler Youth Law’)

A

March 1939

45
Q

Founding of the Adolf Hitler Schools (training the political leaders of the next generation)

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1937

46
Q

Creation of the Women’s Front

A

May 1933

47
Q

Nazis promise the creation of a Volksgemeinschaft

A

March 1935

48
Q

Nazi autoban programme accelerates

A

1936

49
Q

Remilitarisation of the Rhineland

A

March 1936

50
Q

Anschluss with Austria

A

March 1938

51
Q

Sudetenland crisis & Munich Conference (gives Sudetenland to Germany, with Hitler promising this will be his last territorial demand)

A

September 1938

52
Q

Germany invades Czechoslovakia (last democracy in Central Europe is destroyed)

A

March 1939

53
Q

Germany laucnhes Blitzkrieg on Poland

A

September 1939

54
Q

SOPADE report documents that “everyone is afraid of saying a word too many and landing oneself in danger”

A

1938

55
Q

Dates of the propaganda films (directed by Leni Rienfenstahl) ‘Triumph of the Will’ and ‘Olympia’

A

1936

1938

56
Q

Hitler buys the Volkischer Beobachter to circulate Nazi Anti-Semitic views (becomes the original propaganda organ of the Nazi Party)

A

1923

57
Q

During this time, Germany had the largest radio audience in Europe (nearly 1 in 4 households had one)

A

1930s

58
Q

By this year, the regime could broadcast to over 16 million Germans via radio

A

1939

59
Q

In this time period, the state invested 5 billion Reichsmarks into Arbeitdienst programe (work schemes - trying to tackle unemployment)

A

1932-5

60
Q

This period saw the collapse of agricultural prices - peasantry suffered

A

1929-33

61
Q

‘Battle for Production’ launched (attempt to increase the production of grain due to Germany not having much foreign currency - not successful)

A

1934-5

62
Q

Nazis created 6 million jobs for the unemployed in this year

A

1933

63
Q

Between these years, unemployment in the working population decreased by 18.5%

A

1933 - 1936

64
Q

Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

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April 1933

65
Q

Rearmament is launched (expansion of army to 500,000, new Luftwaffe and Navy)

A

March 1935

66
Q

Hitler takes over leadership of the Armed Forces

A

27 January 1938

67
Q

Reichstag passes the ‘Law Concerning Measures for the Defence of the State’ (essentially legalising the NoLK)

A

3 July 1934

68
Q

Hitler justifies his actions in the Night of the Long Knives to the Reichstag

A

13 July 1934

69
Q

Goebbels’s ‘Extraordinary Radio Law’ (outlawed the reception of foreign radio signals)

A

1939

70
Q

Lebensborn programme launched

A

1935 (extended in 1939)

71
Q

Honour Cross of German Motherhood introduced

A

1938

72
Q

Marriage Law

A

1935

73
Q

Women’s Front set up by Robert Ley

A

1933

74
Q

Launch of the People’s Car

A

1938