History- nazi germany

Question 1

what happened in 1918 for the Weimar government?

Answer 1

Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates the throne due to opposition from ww2

Question 2

what happened on the 25th of October 1918?

Answer 2

soldiers refused to fight at kiel

Question 3

who started leading Germany after the king abdicated?

Answer 3

the social democrats

Question 4

what two major things did the social democrats do?

Answer 4

sign the Armistice

singed the tov

Question 5

what other partied existed?

Answer 5

KDP
SPD
centre party
DNVP
NSDAP

Question 6

what was the TOV?

Answer 6

Clause 231

blaming Germany for the war

Question 7

what did the TOV lead to?

Answer 7

Germany pay back £6600 million to countries after the war

rhine land wasn’t allowed any German troops I=to be entered for 15 years and to be occupied by allies

German territory’s were given away- Alsace Lorraine was given to France

Question 8

how often would the new president be elected and what would they control?

Answer 8

every 7 year

army
airforce
navy

Question 9

what does proportional representation mean?

Answer 9

every party would have seats, the main party would have the most seats and made coalitions

Question 10

what was article 48?

Answer 10

could be abused and allowed president to make themselves dictators

Question 11

who were the sparticist uprising?

Answer 11

communist group, opposed Weimar government, first serious threat to the Weimar, began 5th of January 1919

Question 12

why did the sparticists fail?

Answer 12

lack of support from other groups

poor organisation

Question 13

how many sparticists did they kill using 2000 friekorps men?

Answer 13

100 by 15th jan

Question 14

what was the kapp putsch?

Answer 14

Wolfgang kapp and 12000 supporters, marched into berlin and declared a new government

Question 15

why did the kapp putsch fail?

Answer 15

lack of leadership from army members, only concentrated in berlin, wasn’t widley well known

Question 16

what did the government do after the kapp putsch?

Answer 16

fled to presden and continued there, ended the rebellion

Question 17

why did not punishing the friekorps men do?

Answer 17

shows weakness of government as recognised how strong they are

Question 18

what happened in 1923?

Answer 18

invasion of the Ruhr
failure to pay reperations, killed over 100 germans, 15000 german workers were thrown out their houses, very poor
hyperinflation
everything was expensive 1 egg= 80 marks
paid debts

Question 19

munich putsch?

Answer 19

600 sa members marched into beer hall and announced new government
led by lundernoff and hitler
16 Nazis kills

Question 20

successes of putsch?

Answer 20

hitler= great speaker
democratic methods for hitler
mein kampf

Question 21

failures of the putsch?

Answer 21

party got shut down
uprising failed
hitler= jail

Question 22

what good thing happened in 1923?

Answer 22

Stresemann became chancellor, however didn’t have enough support so became foreign secretary from 1924- 1929 and helped the weimar

Question 23

what did Stresemann do to stop hyperinflation?

Answer 23

introduces rentenmark which reduced hyperinflation

Question 24

whats the 1924 dawes plan?

Answer 24

Germany borrowed 800 million marks of USA tp pay back reperations

Question 25

1929 young plan?

Answer 25

reduced repetitions by 60% from 132 million to 27 million

Question 26

lorcarno treaty in 1925?

Answer 26

GB Germany France Italy Belgium promised not to fight over land

Question 27

what happened in 1926?

Answer 27

Germany re joined the league of nations

Question 28

what happened in 1928?

Answer 28

kellog briand pack, agreed no future wars between 65 countries

Question 29

why did the Nazis originally start?

Answer 29

``` conquer lebensuram ( living space) abolish TOV destroy government destroy communism remove jews pure race ```

Question 30

what role did the Sa have from 1921?

Answer 30

private Nazi army, protected Nazis at meetings etc

Question 31

who were the Nazis mainly supported by?

Answer 31

unemployed nationalists anti communists

Question 32

what date was the Nazi party re opened after the ban of the munich putsch?

Answer 32

27th feb 1925

Question 33

what happened in 1929 November 24th?

Answer 33

black Thursday, USA, business crisis, demanded for lians to be paid back

Question 34

how much did unemployement rise?

Answer 34

from 1.6 million to 6.2 million, 33% of workforce was unemployed

Question 35

1930 elections?

Answer 35

Nazis won 18% of votes= 107 seats

Question 36

what allowed hitler to become chancellor?

Answer 36

``` the depression nazus gained 37% of seats leadership skills article 48 persusion propaganda irganisation ```

Question 37

how did hitler become fuhrer?

Answer 37

reischtag fire `1933 1933 enabling act-hitler ban communist meetings nationlist and Nazis joined together- gain seats hitler incharge of police and councils= gestapo ban all trade unions

Question 38

night of the long knives?

Answer 38

Ernst rohm and sa leaders were shot, opposition was removed

Question 39

what was the ss?

Answer 39

fought sections during ww2

Question 40

what were concentration camps?

Answer 40

tortured inmates political opponents slave labour first camp set up In 1933

Question 41

what is the gestapo?

Answer 41

secret police, used torture and surprise attacks

Question 42

what type of propaganda did the Nazis have?

Answer 42

``` controlled newspaper articles radios rose from 25% to 70% posters cinema art ```

Question 43

why was there limited opposition?

Answer 43

fear of SS and SA censorship- didn't know extent of what was happening opposition was banned

Question 44

how did hitler control the youth?

Answer 44

``` 1936- hitler youth little fellow- ages 6-18 league of young girl-10-18 pe= 15% of pe in school adolf hitler school ```

Question 45

how did hitler control women?

Answer 45

``` kinder- children kirche- church kuche- cook traditionally dressed medals for amount of children they had encouraged marriage- loans of 1000 marks produce Aryan children ```

Question 46

what was the RAD?

Answer 46

men forced to work for free for 6 month

Question 47

strength through joy? | beauty of labour scheme?

Answer 47

offered prizes for hard work and saving schemes helped improve conditions in factories

Question 48

who was georing?

Answer 48

put in charge of the economy reduced imports focused on creating jobs

Question 49

what happened in 1933 to 1941?

Answer 49

``` boycott of jewish shops jews banned frok public oaths and transport jews prevented from joining the army jews prevented fro important jobs jews had a letter j printed on their clothes jews sent to concentration camps- killed expelled from schools ghettos set up mobule gas chambers introduces names- sarah for women Israel for men Kristallnacht- murdered etc ```

Question 50

what happened to concentration camps?

Answer 50

``` became excursion camps, 6 million jews killed, 6 major death camps Treblinka sobibor belzec majenek chelmno auschwitz ```