Exam 2 flashcards

Question 1

What two realities allow for the possessors to possess the chairs on the ship?

Answer 1

1. The privileged have a superior capacity for organization
2. reciprocity bears legitimacy

Question 2

What role did Hitler rise to in the NSDAP?

Answer 2

Party leader and Speaker at public events

Question 3

What was the SA?

Answer 3

defensive attack group of the NSDAP

Question 4

Why were the SA allowed to exist?

Answer 4

Bayern had a right leaning government

Question 5

What was the NSDAP’s first attempt to gain government power?

Answer 5

Beerhall Putsch

Question 6

What were the results of the Beerhall Putsch?

Answer 6

-Hilter imprisoned
-the disbanding of NSDAP

Question 7

How did the Federal government and Local government differ politically?

Answer 7

-Fed-Left leaning
-Local-right leaning

Question 8

What was the NSDAP’s second attempt to gain government power?

Answer 8

legal power through the legal system (get into parliament)

Question 9

Describe the Nazi Party

Answer 9

-1st party of the masses
-No particular program
-Pro-german, anti-Semitic, anti-treaty of Versailles

Question 10

What made the Nazi Party votes rise in 1930?

Answer 10

-Great Depression
-Permanent crisis of Democracy
-Radicalization (diminishing political center)
-Organization (appeal to upper and middle class)

Question 11

Who was Hindenburg?

Answer 11

-Big WWI General
-Stab in the Back Legend
-He is old

Question 12

Powers of the President

Answer 12

1. can dissolve Parliament
2. Emergency Ordinances
   -pass decrees in an emergency

Question 13

How did Hitler campaign his presidency?

Answer 13

-“Hitler über Deutschland”
-Airplane Campaigns, 20 speeches a week

Question 14

How did Hitler present himself to the voters?

Answer 14

as a people’s man

Question 15

Who wins the 1932 Presidency Election?

Answer 15

Hindenburg with less than 50%

Question 16

Who are in Hindenburg’s Camarilla?

Answer 16

Franz von Papen (conservative)
-Kurt von Schleicher (military conservative)

Question 17

What does Schleicher want to do with the dissolved SS & SA?

Answer 17

establish new military government

Question 18

Who becomes Chancellor after Brüning resigns?

Answer 18

Franz von Papen

Question 19

elections July 1932- What happens when Hitler refuses to create a coalition?

Answer 19

New Gov. forced to run by minority through emergency ordinances–> issues w/finances

Question 20

After the constitutional crisis and new elections who becomes chancellor?

Answer 20

Schleicher

Question 21

Why did the Nov 1932 election percentage for the NSDAP go down?

Answer 21

-difficult to mobilize voters -NSDAP did not do much
-Structural patterns in history (up and down)

Question 22

How did the lower percentage impact the NSDAP?

Answer 22

they took action and formed a coalition

Question 23

JAN 30 1933

Answer 23

Hitler becomes chancellor

Question 24

Meaning of “We have hired him”?

Answer 24

-hitler is no threat
-he can be fired just as quickly
-they expect him to abide by their rules

Question 25

Who organizes the march through the Brandenburg Tür?

Answer 25

Goebbels

Question 26

How many seats did the Nazis hold in the cabinet?

Answer 26

3 out of 9

Question 27

What seats did the Nazis hold in the cabinet?

Answer 27

Chancellor, Secretary of Interior, and Secretary without a portfolio (later Prussian Governor)

Question 28

Why were these seats key Nazi power?

Answer 28

Prussia-half of Germany
Secretary of Interior- had control over police and homeland security

Question 29

Who was the Secretary of the interior?

Answer 29

Wilhelm Frick

Question 30

Who was the Governor of Prussia?

Answer 30

Göring

Question 31

Main points of the new government proclamation

Answer 31

-strength through unity
-democracy failed
-fighting for Germany
-restoration to former glory
-4 years of blind support, trust, and unquestioned power
-dictatorship

Question 32

What are the two decrees and one law that lead to totalitarianism?

Answer 32

Protection of the German people, Fire decree, and the Enabling Act

Question 33

Main points of the 1st decree?

Answer 33

-political events must be approved 48 hours in advance by the Police
-no public donations to political causes
-censorship of media
-can be confiscated and forbidden

Question 34

Affects of the 1st Decree
GENERAL PARTY FOCUS

Answer 34

-weakens SPD and Communist parties
(they collect funds from the public)
-Nazis control the media and what people can see
-many people begin to migrate

Question 35

NSDAP Advantages over other parties

Answer 35

-Funding from private donors
-broadcasting of speeches
-support from the police
-SA &SS as auxiliary police in Prussia

Question 36

What leads to the creation of the Fire Decree?

Answer 36

Reichstag is set on fire

Question 37

Decree two
FOCUSED ON INDIVIDUALS

Answer 37

violation of basic rights,
-no privacy of home,
-no freedom of speech,
- state governments can be fired by federal government
-life imprisonment becomes death penalty

Question 38

Who do the decrees target?

Answer 38

Communists & Social Democrats

Question 39

How do the conservatives and the Nazis get 2/3rds vote to change the constitution?

Answer 39

-Communists are barred from voting
-SPD threatened with arrest if they vote
-Concessions to the Vatican (Con cor da)

Question 40

When were the communists banned?

Answer 40

Day after the Nazi Party came to power

Question 41

Problems with the Enabling Act?

Answer 41

-no checks and balances
-Legislation becomes irrelevant

Question 42

Article 1(Enabling Act)

Answer 42

-2/3rds no longer required to pass laws
cabinet has the power to pass laws

Question 43

Article 2

Answer 43

laws can go against the constitution as long as it does not affect the federal government

Question 44

Article 3

Answer 44

Chancellor holds power and propagates the legislation and Reich cabinet enacts and executes them

Question 45

Article 4

Answer 45

Cabinet can assume Power of domestic and international affairs

Question 46

Article 5 (most important)

Answer 46

law only becomes void after four years if the cabinet is controlled by another party or if Hitler is replaced