History- nazi germany Flashcards

1
Q

what happened in 1918 for the Weimar government?

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Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates the throne due to opposition from ww2

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2
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what happened on the 25th of October 1918?

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soldiers refused to fight at kiel

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3
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who started leading Germany after the king abdicated?

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the social democrats

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4
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what two major things did the social democrats do?

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sign the Armistice

singed the tov

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5
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what other partied existed?

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KDP
SPD
centre party
DNVP
NSDAP
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6
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what was the TOV?

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Clause 231

blaming Germany for the war

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7
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what did the TOV lead to?

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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

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8
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how often would the new president be elected and what would they control?

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every 7 year

army
airforce
navy

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9
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what does proportional representation mean?

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

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10
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what was article 48?

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could be abused and allowed president to make themselves dictators

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11
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who were the sparticist uprising?

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

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12
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why did the sparticists fail?

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lack of support from other groups

poor organisation

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13
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how many sparticists did they kill using 2000 friekorps men?

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100 by 15th jan

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14
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what was the kapp putsch?

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

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15
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why did the kapp putsch fail?

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

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16
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what did the government do after the kapp putsch?

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fled to presden and continued there, ended the rebellion

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17
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why did not punishing the friekorps men do?

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shows weakness of government as recognised how strong they are

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18
Q

what happened in 1923?

A
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
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19
Q

munich putsch?

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

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20
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successes of putsch?

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hitler= great speaker
democratic methods for hitler
mein kampf

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21
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failures of the putsch?

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party got shut down
uprising failed
hitler= jail

22
Q

what good thing happened in 1923?

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

23
Q

what did Stresemann do to stop hyperinflation?

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introduces rentenmark which reduced hyperinflation

24
Q

whats the 1924 dawes plan?

A

Germany borrowed 800 million marks of USA tp pay back reperations

25
Q

1929 young plan?

A

reduced repetitions by 60% from 132 million to 27 million

26
Q

lorcarno treaty in 1925?

A

GB Germany France Italy Belgium promised not to fight over land

27
Q

what happened in 1926?

A

Germany re joined the league of nations

28
Q

what happened in 1928?

A

kellog briand pack, agreed no future wars between 65 countries

29
Q

why did the Nazis originally start?

A
conquer lebensuram  ( living space)
abolish TOV
destroy government 
destroy communism 
remove jews
pure race
30
Q

what role did the Sa have from 1921?

A

private Nazi army, protected Nazis at meetings etc

31
Q

who were the Nazis mainly supported by?

A

unemployed
nationalists
anti communists

32
Q

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

A

27th feb 1925

33
Q

what happened in 1929 November 24th?

A

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

34
Q

how much did unemployement rise?

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

35
Q

1930 elections?

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Nazis won 18% of votes= 107 seats

36
Q

what allowed hitler to become chancellor?

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

how did hitler become fuhrer?

A

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

38
Q

night of the long knives?

A

Ernst rohm and sa leaders were shot, opposition was removed

39
Q

what was the ss?

A

fought sections during ww2

40
Q

what were concentration camps?

A

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

41
Q

what is the gestapo?

A

secret police, used torture and surprise attacks

42
Q

what type of propaganda did the Nazis have?

A
controlled newspaper articles
radios rose from 25% to 70%
posters
cinema
art
43
Q

why was there limited opposition?

A

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

44
Q

how did hitler control the youth?

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1936- hitler youth
little fellow- ages 6-18
league of young girl-10-18
pe= 15% of pe in school
adolf hitler school
45
Q

how did hitler control women?

A
kinder- children
kirche- church
kuche- cook
traditionally dressed
medals for amount of children they had
encouraged marriage- loans of 1000 marks 
produce Aryan children
46
Q

what was the RAD?

A

men forced to work for free for 6 month

47
Q

strength through joy?

beauty of labour scheme?

A

offered prizes for hard work and saving schemes

helped improve conditions in factories

48
Q

who was georing?

A

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

49
Q

what happened in 1933 to 1941?

A
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
50
Q

what happened to concentration camps?

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