Hitler

Question 1

When was he born?

Answer 1

April 1889

Question 2

Where did he go to study art?

Answer 2

Vienna

Question 3

Why did hitler leave Austria and when?

Answer 3

To get out of doing military service in 1913

Question 4

What happened in 1923?

Answer 4

Hitler and his stormtroopers tried to over throw the government by starting a putsch, and attempt to get power by force in Munich

Question 5

When was hitler let out of prison?

Answer 5

1924

Question 6

When did hitler become chancellor?

Answer 6

30th January 1933

Question 7

When was hitler youth setup?

Answer 7

1922

Question 8

What were 2 aims of hitler youth?

Answer 8

Indoctrinate racism and develop physical fitness

Question 9

Who was the leader of hitler youth?

Answer 9

Balder Von schirach

Question 10

What were three activities in hitler youth?

Answer 10

Marches, camps and war games

Question 11

What did the league of German maids teach?

Answer 11

How to be good mothers and to keep themselves fit for childbirth

Question 12

What were hitlers 2 private armies?

Answer 12

SA and SS

Ss were his elite body guards

Question 13

What did hitler promise when he became chancellor?

Answer 13

Strong government
To get rid of the treaty of Versailles by taking back land and re-arming
His propaganda made people believe that Weimar politicians had stabbed Germany in the back in 1918

Question 14

How did hitler appeal to all the classes?

Answer 14

Junkers(aristocrats) - feared communism and wanted re-armament.
Middle class - wanted law and order and feared communism.
Working class - wanted jobs and he promised to end unemployment.
Church - supported hitler because communists were atheists.

Question 15

Why did hitler write a book and what was it called?

Answer 15

Mein kampf (my struggle)
To set out his ideas

Question 16

How did hitler come to power?

Answer 16

• He promised a strong government.
• he appealed to all classes
• he used his trial to gain publicity, he wrote mein kampf in prison to gat publicity, he changed his ideas how to get power (legally, using the democratic system, which he then planned to destroy.
• between 1924-1928 he reorganised the nazi party. Some of the socialist elements of the 25 point programme were dropped.
• the 1929 Wall Street crash caused world wide depression. Hitler began to campaign across Germany in a plane. Steel barons Krupp and thyssen gave the nazis huge amounts of money.