Hitler

Question 0

When did Hitler become Chancellor?

Answer 0

1933

Question 1

When was the Great Depression?

Answer 1

1929-1933

Question 2

How did Hitler gain power?

Answer 2

Had simple, quick solutions. Offered hope to middle class. Promised jobs, national strength and unity.

Question 3

How did Hitler become dictator?

Answer 3

Hitler evoked enabling law, this suspended constitution. Meant Hitler was dictator for 4 years.

Question 4

What kind of state did Hitler make Germany?

Answer 4

Totalitarian

Question 5

What is a totalitarian state?

Answer 5

State more important than people, strict rules on education and media, only one state, secret police and army, fear and hates internal and external enemies

Question 6

What were the Nazi party ideals?

Answer 6

Anti-Semitism (aryan race superior), anti-communist (committed to defeating USSR), nationalistic (unite all German speaking people esp. Austria), expansionistic (idea of lebensruam - living space, though territorial expansion), militarism (conscription and rearmament)

Question 7

What policies and actions were put in place from July 1933?

Answer 7

All political parties banned (many political opponents imprisoned/executed), trade unions banned (union leaders imprisoned), Nazi party controlled local government, public servants forced to join Nazi party

Question 8

How many people were unemployed by 1933?

Answer 8

6 million

Question 9

When was the ‘Night of the Broken Glass’?

Answer 9

10 November 1938

Question 10

What was the Gestapo?

Answer 10

The secret police

Question 11

What was the ‘Night of the Broken Glass’?

Answer 11

First organised violence against Jews. Shops looted, synagogues burned and Jews murdered

Question 12

What and when were the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 12

1935, Jews denied German citizenship and could not marry German citizens, [Jews banned from all professions and children banned from schools and universities (by 1938)]

Question 13

What was the enabling act?

Answer 13

Citizens lost legal rights - imprisoned without trial

Question 14

Why were textbooks altered?

Answer 14

To teach students to hate Jews

Question 15

Why were history texts rewritten?

Answer 15

To indicate Germany was a victim of ww1 and TOV

Question 16

What was Hitler Youth?

Answer 16

Program designed to make all students swear an oath to hitler and drilled in military style. (6-10 years - Little Fellows, 10-14 - Young People, 14 years - Hitler Youth)

Question 17

How was unemployment reduced?

Answer 17

Industries controlled by gov. - increase in tariffs and gov. subsidies. Suppression of trade unions. Prices set by government. Increase in public works (eg autobahns). Massive rearmament program put into place.

Question 18

What did German girls join?

Answer 18

League of German Maidens

Question 19

What were girls taught in League of German Maidens?

Answer 19

Church, Children, Kitchen were most important thing for them to aspire to

Question 20

What did the Gestapo do?

Answer 20

Eliminated opposition through use of terror

Question 21

What were citizens encouraged and rewarded to do?

Answer 21

Spy on eachother

Question 22

What did teachers have to do under Nazi rule?

Answer 22

Join Nazi party and teach party doctrines

Question 23

What was Hitlers rules involving religion?

Answer 23

Wanted his own state religion. Priests who criticised the government were persecuted. Churches forced to teach Nazi ideologies.

Question 24

What happened during the Great Depression??

Answer 24

Businesses, industries and banks collapsed and unemployment increased

Question 25

What did the middle class fear

Answer 25

Communism

Question 26

What did the Nazi party gain in 1930?

Answer 26

107 of 647 seats in parliament

Question 27

How many seats had the Nazi party gained by 1932?

Answer 27

230

Question 28

Why did Hitler have a strong hatred for Jews?

Answer 28

Blamed for loss of WW1, small wealthy minority, easily recognisable, historical hatred throughout Europe, scapegoats for Germany's problems

Question 29

What were the initial laws and rules against Jews?

Answer 29

Banned from government jobs, could not practice law or medicine and shops were boycotted

Question 30

What happened in 1934?

Answer 30

'Night of the Long Knives'

Question 31

What was the 'Night of the Long Knives'?

Answer 31

When Ernst Rohm and leaders of SA were murdered by SS. SA disbanded and absorbed into SS

Question 32

What was the SA?

Answer 32

Sturm Abteilung (Stormtroopers) formed to protect Nazi party

Question 33

What was the SS?

Answer 33

SchutzStaffel - Hitlers personal body guard

Question 34

Who was Adolf Hitler?

Answer 34

German - Reich Chancellor and president then became Fuhrer (absolute dictator) and supreme commander of army

Question 35

Who was Hitler's mistress?

Answer 35

Eva Braun

Question 36

Who was Rudolf Hess?

Answer 36

Hitler's second in charge of Nazis

Question 37

Who was deputy leader after 1941 and leader of Luftwaffe?

Answer 37

Herman Goering

Question 38

What was the Luftwaffe?

Answer 38

air force

Question 39

Who lead the Gestapo and SS?

Answer 39

Heinrich Himmler

Question 40

Who was Joseph Goebbels?

Answer 40

Propaganda minister

Question 41

Who was Reinhard Heydrich?

Answer 41

Himmler's deputy and leading figure in 'Final Solution'

Question 42

Who organised and controlled the 'Final Solution'?

Answer 42

Adolf Eichmann

Question 43

What year was conscription and rearmament program introduced?

Answer 43

1935

Question 44

What happened in 1936?

Answer 44

Rhineland was reoccupied, Spanish Civil war, 'Rome -Berlin Axis' signed

Question 45

What was the 'Rome - Berlin Axis'?

Answer 45

anti-communist pact between Germany, Japan and later in 1937 Italy

Question 46

What was the Anschluss?

Answer 46

forced union between Germany and Austria in 1938

Question 47

When did Hitler make claims to Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)?

Answer 47

1938 (permitted to annex it)

Question 48

When and what was Munich Agreement signed between Great Britain, France,Germany and Italy?

Answer 48

1938, stated Hitler could not make anymore territorial claims

Question 49

What did Hitler do in 1939?

Answer 49

Occupied rest of Czechoslovakia. signed Nazi-Soviet Pact (both countries vying more time before war)

Question 50

When did WW2 start?

Answer 50

September 1 1939 when Germany invaded Poland

Question 51

What were Jews seen as in Germany?

Answer 51

physically repulsive, morally outrages, parasites on society and racially inferior

Question 52

What was the 'Final Solution'?

Answer 52

Endloesung, 1942, planned systematic program to deal with Jewish 'problem'

Question 53

What were early methods of mass killing?

Answer 53

gas - carbon monoxide poisoning (exhaust fume)

Question 54

What was established instead of carbon monoxide killing?

Answer 54

death camps - gas chambers - cyanide gas used called Zyklon B

Question 55

What was the largest and most infamous death camp?

Answer 55

Auschwitz

Question 56

What was the process?

Answer 56

Jews rounded up in cities and transferred to ghettos, each day certain number were chosen and transported to death or labour camps, in death camps Jews were gassed in gas chambers and then their bodies were burnt, in labour camps Jews worked till they were too weak and then they were killed. others died of hunger, disease and inhumane treatment

Question 57

what was done in Auschwitz?

Answer 57

doctors used Jews for medical research and to practice medical and scientific experiments

Question 58

How many Jews were killed by the end of the war?

Answer 58

6 million

Question 59

what did Nazi's do at the end of the war?

Answer 59

tried to remove all evidence

Question 60

How did Hitler offer hope to the middle class?

Answer 60

They feared communism as did he