Hitler Appointment As Chancellor

Question 1

How did Brüning fail as chancellor

Answer 1

Cut down welfare benefits
Reduced civil servants and reduced pay, because of this he was knows as the “hunger chancellor”

Question 2

What was unemployment in February 1932

Answer 2

6m

Question 3

What ban did Brüning impose

Answer 3

Ban on SA to stop street violence which was high

Question 4

Why did Brüning get sacked

Answer 4

Hindenburg acting on Schleicher advice refused to sight a presidential decree

Question 5

When did Von papen become chancellor

Answer 5

May 1932

Question 6

July 1932 elections

Answer 6

Kpd 14.3
Spd 21.6
Nazis 37.3

Question 7

November 32 election

Answer 7

Nazi 33.1 - getting broke now after all these elections 3 in last year. Lost because Hitler wouldn’t join coalition with Von papen as he wasn’t in charge, alienating mc aswell by attacking Von papen
Kpd 16.9
Spd 20.4

Question 8

Why did Von papen resign

Answer 8

Hitler called a vote of no confidence in the Reichstag

Question 9

What did schleicher plan for the Nazis

Answer 9

For Nazis to work with old conservative elites

Question 10

Schleicher’s government

Answer 10

reversed Von papen cuts to lower wages and benefits, and talked about breaking up some of the larger estates in the east and distributing the land to smaller farmers this scared of the industrialists and landowners while failing to attract the trade unions he then asked Hindenburg to suspend the constitution, dissolve the Reichstag and give him dictatorial powers He refused.