Hitler In Power Flashcards

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How did propeganda gain them support pre-war

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Simple slogans to introduce their ideas and make them appeal to the ordinary people of germany

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What were methods of campaigning there party

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Radio, mass rallies, newspaper (e.g. Der Sturmer), hitlers speeches and posters

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Who was head of propeganda

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Josef Goebbels

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How were the nazi party funded

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Funding from ‘big business’ many lf germanies rich industrialists supported hitler and wamted to see him i power.

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Examples of ‘big business’ funding

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Hugenberg, a newspapermtycoon and thyssen, steel manufacterers made the expensive election campaign in the early 1930s posible

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What other things made people support the nazis

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The fear of communism, especially from the rich, however brownshirts would target communists and would attack them in the streets, leading to many people supporting the nazis

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How did the great depression help

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The great depression ment the US withdrew loans to germany and germany was bankrupt and many people had to shut down businesses and became unemployed, hitler however brought solutions to this and offered employment annd promised a better economy

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How did hitler obtain full support

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Terror, propeganda, youth, econimic success

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Examples of hitlers terror

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The SS, it grew into a huge organisation, jews, communists and any opposition to the nazis were sent to concentration camps. These isolated prisons had people be tortured and forced to do hard labour

However the force most people feared was the gestapo - hitlers secret police. They tapped telephones and spied on peole, anyone who critisised was in fear of arrest.

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How did he use propeganda to control people

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  • Amti-nazi newspapers were shut down,
  • only films carrying the nazi message were shown in the cinemas
  • no books were published without Goebbels permission
  • no one was allowed to listen to foreign radio signals
  • the nazis displayed posteres all over germany displaying how great they were attacking enemies
  • rallies and parades were organised to showcase nazi strength
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What did hitler use the youth for

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He knew it was important for germanies young people to be loyal to the nazis

  • they had lessons on the rise of the nazis and the evils lf communism. In biology pupils learnt how germanic people, aryans, were superior to other races - teachers who didnt support the nazis were sacked.
  • from 1936 all young people had to be part of the hitler youth
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How did hitler use economic success

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Before 1933 most working class people didnt support the nazis, hitler new he had to control these people, especially the 6 milion unemployed.

After 1934 - more people were given jobs in the armed forces, new roads and buildings constructed all over germany,

Hitler even started making Volkswagen beetle cars, nicknamed ‘the peoples car’

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What was strength through joy

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A scheme organised the leisure time of the workers

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What other points did he write in mein kampf

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The Treaty of versailles must be cancelled and land taken from germany returned

All people of german blood aloud to live in greater germany (including austria and czechoslovakia)

The germans are the master race

Demands livimg space (‘Lebensraum’” for our people in the east

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What were the USAs aims in the treaty of versailles

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The US only joined the war in 1917 and dindt suffer a much as britan and france, they wanted to prevent germany from being aggressive but not punish them. Wanted diferent. Ationalist groups to run independantly known as self determinwation

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Who were the big 3

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USA - woodrow wilson
Britan - David Loyde George
France - George Clemenceau

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What were the UKs aims in the versailles

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Hang the kaiser and make germany pay, yet didnt want to publicly humiliate them that theyd be agressive in the future, wanted to end the threat of the german navy for the british navy and empire

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What were frances aims in versailles

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1.4 milion frenchmen died, wanted massive reperstions and fines from germany, wanted germany to suffer so it never could be strong again,