Hitler

Question 1

Economic Conditions Leading to rtp

Answer 1

1918 - Defeat in ww1
1919-20 - Treaty of Versailles, 6.6B pounds in operations
1923 - France and Belgium invade the Rhur, hyperinflation
1929 - Wall Street Crash, unemployment over 2m
1932 - Unemployment at 6m

Question 2

Social conditions leading to rtp

Answer 2

1919 - weimar republic signs ToV, “stabbed in the back”
1923 - Munich Putsch
1924 - release of Mein Kampf, 12m copies p to 1945
1930 - Nazis win 18.3% of vote
1932 - July 230 seats, Nov 196 seats

Question 3

Key events in rtp

Answer 3

1918 - ww1 defeat
1919 - ToV
1923 - Munich putsch, loss of Rhur
1924 - Mein Kampf
1929 - Depression
1932 - Hindenberg becomes President, von Papen Chancellor
1933 - Jan 30 Hitler becomes chancellor, Feb - Reich Fire, March - Enabling act and dictatorial powers

Question 4

Key events in cop

Answer 4

1933 - April - Gestapo, May-Trade unions banned, July-Concordat, Law Against the formation of new parties, Oct-leaves LoN, rearmament
1934 - Night of long knives, SS kill approx. 1k SA
1936 - Remiliatrization of the Rhine, 7k with no guns, Rome-Berlin(oct), Anti-Comintern(nov) (Jp), SCW
1938 - Anschluss
1939 - Nazi-Soviet

Question 5

Key Domestic and foreign policy aims

Answer 5

1935- conscription, Stressa, Anglo-German Naval
1936 - Remilitarize Rhine, Rome-Berlin, Anti-Comintern
1938 - Anschluss
1939 - Nazi-Soviet

Question 6

Key methods to achieve aims

Answer 6

• Propaganda, Goebbels with 14.5k employees, radios in 70% of homes by 1939
• new plan with Balkan in 1934 creates MEFO bills at 4% interest
• Improve conditions with DAF “beauty through labour” “strength through joy”
• Increase birth rate by restricting education and jobs
• In 1933 1/2 of voters for Hitler are women
• Reich Church,1933, Confessional church(7k pastors) provides effective opposition
• Terror(gestapo, ss, sa)
• 1935 new curriculum for indoctrination

Question 7

Domestic policy successes and failures

Answer 7

Successes:
- students became loyal and fit, but academic quality fell

Failures:
- 4 yr plans failed to meet targets, food shortages
- Only a small increase in population, job shortages rose without women
- racial sterilization highly unpopular and works against population aims

Question 8

Foreign Policy Successes and Failures

Answer 8

Success:
-1936 - Rhineland
- 1935-36 - Anti-Comintern
- 1939 - Nazi-Soviet
- 1938 - Munich-Sudetenland, Ancshluss

Question 9

PSQs

Answer 9

• “your child belongs to us already”
• “the best … place for women is in the family … to give children to the people and the nation”
• “kinder, kirche, kuche”
• “AIm of the German labour front is to educate all Germans … to support the national socialist state and indoctrinate them”
• “1. armed forces must be operational in 4 years. 2. Economy must be fit for war in 4 years”

Question 10

HSQs

Answer 10

• “[the weimar republic] collapsed in 1933 due to its inability to win the confidence of the general public”-Ritter
• “chance, luck an tragic miscalculations were a major factor in bringing Hitler to power.”-Kershaw
• “Hitler managed to outmaneuver the government and establish a single party state.”-Anderson
• “the once powerful german trade movement had disappeared almost without a trace overnight.” - Evans