Hitler

Question 1

Weimar Republic Dates

Answer 1

1919-1933

Question 2

Weimar Republic: name of parliament

Answer 2

Reichstag

Question 3

Did hitler believe that everyone should be obligated to work for a living?

Answer 3

Yes: profits of industry should be shared by citizens

Question 4

Welfare state

Answer 4

Government protests economic and social well-being

Question 5

Germans saw the old authoritarian system as ____

Answer 5

Benevolent; desirable

Question 6

Problems with German Republic after WW1

Answer 6

• violent uprisings, rebellions

Question 7

Hitler changed name of German Worker’s Party to _____

Answer 7

NSDAP (Naitonal socialist German worker’s party)

Question 8

Ideology of fascism (3)

Answer 8

Hatred of liberalism, Jews, and communists.

Question 9

Five main characteristics of Hitler’s Fuhrer Principle & Cult of Leadership

Answer 9

1. Collectivism
   - state provides jobs
2. Anti-liberalism
   - no individualism or parliaments
3. Racism
   - “Aryan race”, eugenics classes
4. Nationalism
   - Lebensraum
5. Big Business-State-Military partnership
   - cooperated with wealthy industrialists (Ford) to strengthen military

Question 10

When was Hitler named Chancellor?

Answer 10

1933

Question 11

What did Hitler pass after the Reichstag fire?

Answer 11

Enabling Act of 1933

Question 12

Purge: “Night of the Long Knives”

Answer 12

Elimination of SA’s (stormtrooper’s) leaders

Question 13

After Hindenburg’s death, what did Hitler declare himself as?

Answer 13

Fuhrer (leader)

Question 14

What is Autarky

Answer 14

Self-sufficiency
Independence
German economy aimed to achieve autarky

Question 15

Define Nuremberg Law?

Answer 15

Anti-Semitic law to isolate Jews from non-Jewish neighbours

Question 16

Strength through Joy (KDF) program

Answer 16

Give wage earners a priceless source of happiness: provided people with leisure and holidays

Question 17

Diktat

Answer 17

Imposed settlement

Question 18

Germany’s defeat in the war destroyed the __________

Answer 18

Second Reich
- Kaiser abdicated
- replaced with Weimar Republic in 1919

Question 19

Characteristics of Weimar Republic

Answer 19

• president as head of state, every 7 years
• chancellor as head of government
• elected Reichstag allocated by proportional representation (based on number of votes)

Question 20

Two weaknesses of Weimar republic

Answer 20

• President can become dictatorial during crisis
• inefficient and unstable coalitions

Question 21

Volk

Answer 21

Nation as a community of racially pure Germans

Question 22

Munich-Putsch: date, what, cause

Answer 22

Date: 1923
What: Hitler and Ludendorff attempted to seize power in Munich through FORCE
Cause: hyper-inflation as a consequence of French occupation of Ruhr

Question 23

Hitler’s change of strategy from ______ to _________

Answer 23

Force to political (democratically)

Question 24

Otto and Gregor Strasser believed that Nazism should be more _____ and develop closer relations with _________

Answer 24

Socialist
Soviet Union

Question 25

Which class supported Hitler?

Answer 25

Lower middle class

Question 26

KPD

Answer 26

German Communist Party

Question 27

‘Protest vote’

Answer 27

Masses chose Hitler because of his appeal to the electorate: propaganda attacked other political opponents

Question 28

Gleichschaltung

Answer 28

Consolidation of authority

Question 29

Who is head of SS and German police?

Answer 29

Himmler

Question 30

German has strong _____ tradition

Answer 30

Military

Question 31

Wehrmacht

Answer 31

Armed services (army, navy, air)

Question 32

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 32

10 year bib-aggression agreement between Third Reich and USSR

Question 33

Young Resistance to Hitler

Answer 33

The White Rose group, Edelweiss, Swingjugend

Question 34

Dachau of 1933

Answer 34

Germany’s 1st concentration camp, opened

Question 35

Reichsminister of economics from 1934-37

Answer 35

Hjalmar Schacht

Question 36

Achievements of Hjalmar Schacht

Answer 36

• stabilize German currency

Question 37

Two goals of Schacht’s NEW PLAN of 1934:

Answer 37

1. Create employment through public projects
2. Young men 18-25 required to join National Labour Service for 6 months

Question 38

Goering’s Four-Year Plan

Answer 38

Provide rearmament of Germany, make as AUTARKY
- more labour controls
- imports controlled

Question 39

Propaganda minister

Answer 39

Goebbels

Question 40

BDM stands for

Answer 40

League of German Maidens: sister’s movement of boy’s Hitler Youth

Question 41

Robert Ley

Answer 41

German politician: director of German Labour Front

Question 42

Ley aimed to end all class conflict by creating “social peace”. What does that mean?

Answer 42

Subordinate themselves as individuals to the collective will of the nation

Question 43

KDF vs KPD

Answer 43

KDF: Strength through Joy
KPD: Communist Party

Question 44

Euthanasia programme 1939

Answer 44

‘Mercy killing’
Organization, code name T4, killed everyone with defectives (nazi term for disorders)

Question 45

Final Solution

Answer 45

Nazi euphemism for extermination of Jews

Question 46

Kristallnacht

Answer 46

Night of breaking glass: assassination of Jews: killed, smashed houses…

Question 47

Result of modification of treaty of Versailles under Hitler

Answer 47

Saarland returned (conducted plebiscite)

Question 48

Anti-Comintern Pact

Answer 48

Italy, Germany and Japan

Question 49

Where did Germany claim back/remilitarize?

Answer 49

Rhineland, 1936

Question 50

The newly created Czechoslovakia included Sudeten Germans. Did Germany successfully take back Sudetenland?

Answer 50

Yes

Question 51

Why did French capitalists march to the Ruhr?

Answer 51

Failure of Germany to pay the reperations