Hitler Flashcards
Hitler joined the
German Workers Party
Became leader
Renamed German Workers Party
to NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker’s Party) aka Nazi pary
SA
Aka Brownshirts
SS
Hitler’s bodyguards
Der Fürher
The leader
Right arm salute
NSDAP
Held rallies and marches where Hitler spoke.
Fought street battles
March on Berlin
Aka putsch
Failed
Five years in prison Hitler
Wrote Mein Kampt
Hitlers’s aims
Tear up treaty Make Germany a greater power Empire that united all German speakers Destroy communism and socialism Remove all Jews from Germany
1928 election
NSDAP only got 12 seats in Reichstag
1930 election
Nazis won 107 seats as communism scared many Germans
Political violence became common
Hitler made speeches throughout Germany
Why people voted for Hitler
Promised to lower unemployment
Hatred of treaty
Good propaganda
Loss of faith in democracy
Dictatorship forming
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
Gestapo
Secret police
Kept population under control
Enabling Law 1933
Hitler could rule by decree
End of democracy
Night of the Long Knives
Hitler had leaders of the SA killed and all his political oppoments killed along with anyone who posed a threat to his dictatorship.