Hitler's Rise To Power

Question 1

When and where was Hitler born?

Answer 1

1889. Austria.

Question 2

What was Hitler’s dad like?

Answer 2

He was a violent drunk.

Question 3

What did Hitler do aged eighteen?

Answer 3

He ran away to Vienna.

Question 4

What did Hitler hope to become?

Answer 4

An art student but he failed to get into art school.

Question 5

What did Hitler do after not being accepted into art school?

Answer 5

He started to live rough, doing odd jobs, trying to survive.

Question 6

What was Hitler quickly promoted to?

Answer 6

Lance-corporal

Question 7

What happened to Hitler towards the end of WWI?

Answer 7

He was blinded in a British gas attack.

Question 8

How did Hitler describe WWI?

Answer 8

The greatest of all experiences.

Question 9

What did the Kaiser do at the end ofthe war?

Answer 9

Wilhelm fled to the Netherlands leaving a new, democratic government to try and pick up the pieces.

Question 10

What happened in 1923?

Answer 10

Prices rose greatly, which led to unemployment doing the same. Millions of Germans went hungry. German currency became almost worthless.

Question 11

Where did Hitler go after WWI?

Answer 11

Munich, here he became involved in politics.

Question 12

When did Hitler become the keader of the Nazis?

Answer 12

1922

Question 13

What were Hitler’s private army called and what did they do?

Answer 13

Storm-troopers. They beat up and terrorised opponents.

Question 14

When and how did Hitler make his first clumsy grab for power?

Answer 14

In 1923, he planned to march his stormtroopers into Berlin and remove the Weimar government from power. It was known as the Beer Hall Putsch because it started in a Munich bar.

Question 15

When was Hitler released from prison?

Answer 15

1924

Question 16

What happened in 1929?

Answer 16

The Great Depression hit.

Question 17

Why did the Great Depression aid Hitler?

Answer 17

While people were losing jobs, land, wealth etc, Hitler was offering easy solutions to fix their difficult problems. Hitler’s popularity grew.

Question 18

When did German voters make the Nazis become the largest single party?

Answer 18

1932

Question 19

What happened in January 1933?

Answer 19

President Hindenburg asked Hitler to become Chancellor of Germany.

Question 20

Why did Hindenburg make Hitlet Chancellor?

Answer 20

He thought Hitler might solve Germany’s economic problems. He also thought Hitler woukd be easy to control - but was very wrong.

Question 21

When happened in March 1933?

Answer 21

The Enabling Act was passed. This let Hitler pass any laws he wanted.

Question 22

What took place on the night of 30 June 1934?

Answer 22

The Night of the Long Knives. The SS were sent out to murder leading members of the Nazi party who opposed Hitler.

Question 23

When did Hindenburg die?

Answer 23

2 August 1934

Question 24

What was announced within an hour of Hindenburg’s death?

Answer 24

Hitler was not only Chancellor, but Head of State and Commander of the Army. He was now a dictator.

Question 25

What groups did the Nazis try to appeal to?

Answer 25

Sicialists,
Nationalists,
Racists,
Fascists,
Businessmen,
Unemployed and Workers

Question 26

How did the Nazis appeal to Socialists?

Answer 26

Promised farmers would be given their land, pensions would improve and public industries would be owned by the state.

Question 27

How did the Nazis appeal to Nationalists?

Answer 27

They promised that all German speakers would be united in one country, the Treaty of Versailles would be abandoned and there would be special laws for foreigners.

Question 28

How did the Nazis appeal to racists?

Answer 28

They promised Jews wouldn’t be German citizens and immigration would be put to an end.

Question 29

How did the Nazis appeal to fascists?

Answer 29

They promised a strong central government and control of the newspapers.

Question 30

How did the Nazis appeal to Businessmen, landowners, the rich and the army?

Answer 30

They promised remilitarisation would begin and contracts would be awarded to Germans. They also promised protection from the Communists.

Question 31

How did the Nazis appeal to the unemployed and the workers?

Answer 31

They promised an increase in employment and wages.

Question 32

Who was Minister of Propoganda?

Answer 32

Josef Goebbels.

Question 33

Methods of campaigning the Nazis used in the 1920s:

Answer 33

Radio,
Mass Rallies,
Newspapers,
Hitler’s Speeches and Posters.

Question 34

How could the Nazis fund their campaigns?

Answer 34

Funding from big businesses that supported them. Hugenburg, a newspaper tycoon and Thyssen, a steel manufacturer made the campaigns of the early 1930s possible.

Question 35

What did Goebbels limit/do?

Answer 35

Books published without his permission,
Anti-Nazi newspapers,
Films that didn’t carry the Nazi massage,
Foreign radio stations,
Posters of them attacking enemies and saying how great they are,
Organised rallies and parades to show the strength of the Nazis.

Question 36

What happened from 1936?

Answer 36

All German youths had to belong to Hitler Youth.

Question 37

What did Hitler Youth do?

Answer 37

While they would go to camps, play sports, work on farms and sing, they were being trained for obedient service in the armed forces. Girls were being prepared for their roles as perfect German mothers.

Question 38

What schemes did Hitler make to provide work?

Answer 38

Roads and buildings constructed across the country, more were given jobs in the army.

Question 39

When did Hitler introduce conscription?

Answer 39

1936

Question 40

March 1936

Answer 40

German troops were sent to re-occupy Rhineland. Hitler ignored the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 41

1937

Answer 41

Hitler helped the Spanish dicator, Franco, win the Spanish Civil War.

Question 42

March 1938

Answer 42

Hitler demanded Germany join with Austria. Ignoring the Treaty of Versailles, German troops enetered Austria unchallenged.

Question 43

September 1938

Answer 43

Hitler declared he was prepared to occupy the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia in order to protect the German speakers. Britain and France allowed this on the condition that they didn’t invade Czechoslovakia. This was known as the Munich agreement.

Question 44

March 1939

Answer 44

Hitler ignored the Munich agreement and invaded Czechoslovakia.

Question 45

September 1939

Answer 45

Hitler demanded Poland return the Polish corridor and the Port of Danzig to Germany. He claimed the Treaty of Versailles shouldn’t have taken them from Germany. He invaded Poland.

Question 46

When did Germany invade Poland.

Answer 46

1 September 1939

Question 47

Appeasement

Answer 47

Give them most of what they want to keep them happy.

Question 48

What did Chamberlain do in September 1938?

Answer 48

Organised a last-minute meeting with Hitler in Munich.

Question 49

What did the Munich agreement state?

Answer 49

Germany could have the Sudetenland if Hitler stopped demanding more territory.

Question 50

When did the Nazis invade the rest of Czechoslovakia?

Answer 50

March 1939