Key Dates And Terms

Question 1

What happened in 1889 in Austria?

Answer 1

Adolf Hitler was born

Question 2

What happened in 1920?

Answer 2

Hitler became the leader of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)

Question 3

What happened in 1923?

Answer 3

Hitler tried to violently seize power with a march on Munich called the Munich Putsch, but he was arrested and imprisoned

Question 4

What happened on 30th January 1933?

Answer 4

Hitler became Chancellor

Question 5

What happened in March 1933?

Answer 5

Hitler passed the Enabling Act

Question 6

What was the Enabling Act?

Answer 6

The German parliament gave Hitler the right to make his own laws

Question 7

What happened in In August 1934?

Answer 7

President Hindenburg died and Hitler declared himself the Fuhrer

Question 8

What happened on 28th June 1919?

Answer 8

Treaty of Versailles

Question 9

What was the Treaty Of Versailles?

Answer 9

The Germans had to pay ‘reparations’ for the first world war

Question 10

What happened on the 14th september 1919?

Answer 10

Hitler joined the Nazis

Question 11

What happened in 1921?

Answer 11

The SA was formed

Question 12

What was the SA?

Answer 12

Hitler formed a group of soldiers to attack rival parties

Question 13

What happened on the 8-9th November 1923?

Answer 13

Beer Hall Putsch

Question 14

What was the Beer Hall Putsch?

Answer 14

Hitler led a ‘putsch’ (a revolution) in Munich. It failed. 16 Nazis were killed and Hitler was put in Jail

Question 15

What was the Mein Kampf and when was it written?

Answer 15

The Mein Kampf (meaning ‘my struggle’) was written whilst hitler was in prison (1924) and explained his planes for Germany. He became very popular

Question 16

What happened in 1927?

Answer 16

The Hitler youth groups were formed

Question 17

What did children do in the Hitler Youth Groups?

Answer 17

In their spare time, young people did sports. They also studied Nazi ideas and were taught to obey Hitler

Question 18

What happened in 1928?

Answer 18

Nazi propaganda was formed

Question 19

Who is Josef Goebbels and what did he do?

Answer 19

Josef Goebbels was put incharge of Nazi propaganda

Question 20

What ways did the Nazis use to spread their propaganda?

Answer 20

The Nazis used Radio, Newspapers and mass rallies to get their ideas across

Question 21

What happened in 1929-1932?

Answer 21

The World Depression

Question 22

What was the World Depression?

Answer 22

There was bad unemployment. A quarter of the German workforce was out of work. Some people starved to death and Support for Nazis grew.

Question 23

What happened on the 27th February 1933?

Answer 23

The Reichstag fire

Question 24

What was the Reichstag fire?

Answer 24

The Reichstag (german parliament) burned down. Hitler used the fire as an excuse to arrest his communist opponents

Question 25

What happened on March 5th 1933?

Answer 25

General election

Question 26

What did the general election mean for the Nazis?

Answer 26

In the election, 44% of the people voted Nazi. This did not give Hitler a majority, so he put the 81 communist deputies in prison

Question 27

What happened on the 26th April 1933?

Answer 27

The Gestapo

Question 28

What was the Gestapo?

Answer 28

Nazis were put incharge of the local government and police. The Nazis formed a Gestapo (secret police)

Question 29

What happened on the 2nd May 1933?

Answer 29

The Trade Unions were abolished. The Trade Union’s offices were closed down, their money was confiscated, and their leaders were put in prison

Question 30

What happened on the 14th July 1933?

Answer 30

Opposition parties were banned

Question 31

What happened on the 30th June 1934?

Answer 31

The Night of the Long Knives

Question 32

What was the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 32

Hitler used his personal bodyguards (the SS) to kill hundreds of the SA men