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Weimar Republic Dates

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1919-1933

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Weimar Republic: name of parliament

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Reichstag

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

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Yes: profits of industry should be shared by citizens

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Welfare state

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Government protests economic and social well-being

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Germans saw the old authoritarian system as ____

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Benevolent; desirable

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Problems with German Republic after WW1

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  • violent uprisings, rebellions
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Hitler changed name of German Worker’s Party to _____

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NSDAP (Naitonal socialist German worker’s party)

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Ideology of fascism (3)

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Hatred of liberalism, Jews, and communists.

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

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  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
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When was Hitler named Chancellor?

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1933

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What did Hitler pass after the Reichstag fire?

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Enabling Act of 1933

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Purge: “Night of the Long Knives”

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Elimination of SA’s (stormtrooper’s) leaders

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

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Fuhrer (leader)

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What is Autarky

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Self-sufficiency
Independence
German economy aimed to achieve autarky

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Define Nuremberg Law?

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

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Strength through Joy (KDF) program

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

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Diktat

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Imposed settlement

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Germany’s defeat in the war destroyed the __________

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

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Characteristics of Weimar Republic

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

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

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Nation as a community of racially pure Germans

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Munich-Putsch: date, what, cause

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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

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Hitler’s change of strategy from ______ to _________

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Force to political (democratically)

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

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Socialist
Soviet Union

25
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Which class supported Hitler?

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Lower middle class

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KPD

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German Communist Party

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‘Protest vote’

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

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Gleichschaltung

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Consolidation of authority

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Who is head of SS and German police?

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Himmler

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German has strong _____ tradition

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Military

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Wehrmacht

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Armed services (army, navy, air)

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

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10 year bib-aggression agreement between Third Reich and USSR

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Young Resistance to Hitler

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The White Rose group, Edelweiss, Swingjugend

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Dachau of 1933

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Germany’s 1st concentration camp, opened

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Reichsminister of economics from 1934-37

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Hjalmar Schacht

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Achievements of Hjalmar Schacht

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  • stabilize German currency
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Two goals of Schacht’s NEW PLAN of 1934:

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  1. Create employment through public projects
  2. Young men 18-25 required to join National Labour Service for 6 months
38
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Goering’s Four-Year Plan

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

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Propaganda minister

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Goebbels

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BDM stands for

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

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Robert Ley

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German politician: director of German Labour Front

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

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Subordinate themselves as individuals to the collective will of the nation

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KDF vs KPD

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KDF: Strength through Joy
KPD: Communist Party

44
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Euthanasia programme 1939

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

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Final Solution

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Nazi euphemism for extermination of Jews

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Kristallnacht

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

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Result of modification of treaty of Versailles under Hitler

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Saarland returned (conducted plebiscite)

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Anti-Comintern Pact

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Italy, Germany and Japan

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Where did Germany claim back/remilitarize?

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Rhineland, 1936

50
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The newly created Czechoslovakia included Sudeten Germans. Did Germany successfully take back Sudetenland?

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Yes

51
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Why did French capitalists march to the Ruhr?

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Failure of Germany to pay the reperations

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