Hitler Flashcards

1
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Hitler joined the

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German Workers Party

Became leader

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2
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Renamed German Workers Party

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to NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker’s Party) aka Nazi pary

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3
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SA

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Aka Brownshirts

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4
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SS

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Hitler’s bodyguards

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5
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Der Fürher

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The leader

Right arm salute

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6
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NSDAP

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Held rallies and marches where Hitler spoke.

Fought street battles

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7
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March on Berlin

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Aka putsch
Failed
Five years in prison Hitler
Wrote Mein Kampt

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8
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Hitlers’s aims

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Tear up treaty
Make Germany a greater power
Empire that united all German speakers
Destroy communism and socialism
Remove all Jews from Germany
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9
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1928 election

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NSDAP only got 12 seats in Reichstag

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10
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1930 election

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Nazis won 107 seats as communism scared many Germans
Political violence became common
Hitler made speeches throughout Germany

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11
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Why people voted for Hitler

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Promised to lower unemployment
Hatred of treaty
Good propaganda
Loss of faith in democracy

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12
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Dictatorship forming

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Nazis took over police
Brownshirts killed opponents
Communism banned (reichstag fire)
Gestapo formed
Enabling Law 1933
Political terror increased
All other parties banned and trade unions by summer '33
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13
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Gestapo

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Secret police

Kept population under control

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14
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Enabling Law 1933

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Hitler could rule by decree

End of democracy

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15
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Night of the Long Knives

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Hitler had leaders of the SA killed and all his political oppoments killed along with anyone who posed a threat to his dictatorship.

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16
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Hitler made the army

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Swear an oath of loyalty to him

17
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Why Germans supported Hitler

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His foreign policy was very successful and made them proud
His economic policy was also great.
Propaganda (Josef Goebbels)
Berlin Olympics used as a Nazi showcase

18
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‘Battle for Work’ 1933

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Provided work through public work schemes
Recruitment
Strong car industry

19
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Who Was in charge of propaganda

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Josef Goebbels

20
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1936 Berlin Olympics

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Jews not allowed compete even though Top 10 athletes were Jewish
Anti-semitic posters taken down
German team had over 300 athletes
Won 89 medals
New stadium 100,000 seats
21
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Education

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PE emphasised
Loyalty to the Führer taught from playschool
Hist hooks rewritten to glorify Germany
Hitler Youth , League of German Maidens -indoctrinated Nazi ideas.

22
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Problems Hitler faced

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Massive unemployment (30% by 1932)
Reparations and Treaty
23
Q

Solutions

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Fixed wages- trade unions banned
Stopped paying reparations
No taxes on new cars
Investment in car industry.

24
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Anti-semitism 1933-1939

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Nazis believed themselves superior
Said Jews were enemies of Aryan race
Hitler made life hard for the Jews
Wanted them out of Germany

25
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What did he do to Jews

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Boycotted Jewish shops
Not allowed to work for the gov
Anti-Jewish signs pinned all over Germany
Forced to sell business at a much lower price than their worth
Nurembourg Laws 1935- Illegal for Jews+Germans to marry/have relations.

26
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Nurembourg Laws 1935

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Illegal for Jews and Germans to marry or have relations.

27
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Kristallnacht cause

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In 1938 a German diplomat was shot by a Jew in Paris.

28
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Kritallnacht dates

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9th and 10th of November 1938

29
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What happened on Kristallnacht

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Nazis attacked all Synagogues
Destroyed Jewish shops and property
Murdered 91 Jews and sent 30,000 to concentration camps
These were soon released but had been treated horribly
Fined Jewish community 1 billion marks

30
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Kristallnacht def

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Night of Broken Glass

31
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What did Jews do?

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Over 80,000 left Germany in the next month.

32
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Weimar Gov

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Coalition Gov
Forced to sign Treaty
1918-33
Printed too much money- hyperinflation
Owed reparation