Dated Content and Laws (Exam #2)

Question 1

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 1

Article 231, reparations, and reduced military

Germans were nervous about future, war vets thirst for war again

Question 2

Economic Consequences of the Peace

Answer 2

(1919) ohn Maynard Keynes warned that the amount of reparations will impact everyone

Question 3

Fire

Answer 3

(1922) Ernst Junger glorified and called war a “great school”

Question 4

Mein Kampf

Answer 4

(1925) AKA Four and One-Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice

Hitler discussed German nationalism and anti-semitism

Question 5

Article 48

Answer 5

AKA presidential powers, part of Weimar Republic constitution

Three parts:

• Can call national emergency, dissolve Parliament and pass laws alone
• Suspend civic rights
• Arrest/jail any threats to the state

Question 6

Reichstag Fire Decree

Answer 6

(Feb. 28, 1933) AKA Decree of the President for the Protection of the People and State

Gave more power to the Nazi Party

Question 7

Enabling Act

Answer 7

(Mar. 23, 1933) AKA Law for the Termination of the Suffering of the People

Established single-party rule by removing Parliament power

Question 8

Law against the New Formation of Parties

Answer 8

(July 14, 1933)

“The National Socialist German Workers’ Party constitutes the only political party in Germany.”

Question 9

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 9

(Aug. 23, 1939) AKA Molotov-Rippentrop Pact

Question 10

Inequality of the Human Races

Answer 10

(1855) Arthur du Gobineau

• Argued there are 3 races: white, black and yellow
• Opposed racial mixing because it pollutes Aryan superiority
• Considered Jews Aryan
• Nazi racial science ideas came from here; modification: Jews are a fourth, inferior race and are the greatest polluters

Question 11

What are the four policies Hitler implemented to achieve his Volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 11

1. ) Nazi cultural policy
2. ) “bribery through the stomach”
3. ) Euthanasia Program
4. ) persecution of the Jews

Question 12

Reich Ministry of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment

Answer 12

Josef Goebbels’s job was to make all cultural expression portray Nazi values

Question 13

Hitler Youth

Answer 13

Baldur von Schirach led the Hitler Youth

Irony: became mandatory because too few kids wanted to join because of how conservative it was

Question 14

“Strength through Joy”

Answer 14

Directed by Robert Ley

Program that bribed people with vacations for being loyal

Tourist resort at Prora in the Baltic Sea, later modified to military training school

Question 15

Action T4

Answer 15

Named after Tiergarten Street #4

Began with killing children, then eventually adults

Ended 1941

Question 16

Nazi cultural policy

Answer 16

(May 1933) Book burnings and art lootings to try and achieve Gleischaltung

Question 17

“bribery through the stomach”

Answer 17

Buying loyalty of people with consumer goods and vacations (“Strength through Joy”)

Question 18

Euthanasia program

Answer 18

(Summer 1939) Systematic killing of people through Action T4

Question 19

Persecution of the Jews

Answer 19

1. ) (1933-1934) Boycotts and job discrimination
2. ) (1935-1938) Nuremburg Laws
3. ) (1938-1941) Concentration camps, ghettos, Babi Yar
4. ) (1941-1945) Extermination camps from the Final Solution

Question 20

Nuremburg Laws

Answer 20

(Sept. 15, 1935) Encouraged Jews to leave Germany

One part is the Reich Citizenship Law

• Citizens v. subjects of country
• Jews had no ability to vote, run for office, civic protection

Question 21

Generalgouvernement

Answer 21

Start of WWII: Nazi-run government in Poland led by Hans Frank

Forced Jews into ghettos

Question 22

Madagascar Plan

Answer 22

Germany tried shipping Jews to Madagascar to ease resource strain, but Great Britain controls the seas and the Suez Canal

Question 23

Iron Curtain speech

Answer 23

(1946) Churchill’s speech in Fulton, MO

Placed blame of cold war tensions on Stalin

Question 24

Policy of Containment

Answer 24

US foreign policy during Cold War Era to contain spread of soviet power

Made official in Truman Doctrine (1947)

Led to NSC 68 (Apr. 1950)

Question 25

Truman Doctrine

Answer 25

(1947) Truman inspired by ideas in Long Telegram made the following public announcements:
1. ) Policy of containment is official US foreign policy
2. ) US is prepared to militarily prepared to back up any country threatened by soviet power

Question 26

NSC 68

Answer 26

(Apr. 1950) National Security Council stated the following:

1. ) Soviet Union is aggressive and wants world power
2. ) US will work to stop soviet power from spreading
3. ) Military intervention will be used if necessary

Question 27

Long Telegram

Answer 27

(1946) John F. Kennan discussed early ideas of policy of containment