Key Dates: Nazis Flashcards
September 1919
Hitler joins the GWP
February 29 1929
Wall Street crash
July 1932
The Nazi Party had 230 seats - not a majority though
February 27 1933
Reichstag Fire - Gave Hitler an excuse to imprison communists.
March 3 1933
Election Nazis 44% - not a majority but was with nationalists
March 23 1933
Enabling Act - Hitler had absolute power to make laws
Persecution of the Jews - 1933
Boycott of Jewish businesses
Jewish civil servants, lawyers and teachers sacked
Race science lessons introduced
Persecution of the Jews - 1935
‘Jews not wanted here’ signs in public places
September 15 1935
Nuremberg Laws
Jews couldn’t be citizens
Persecution of the Jews - 1938
Jews couldn’t be doctors
Jews had names Israel (men) or Sarah (women) added
Jewish children couldn’t go to school
November 9 1938
Kristallnacht
January 30 1933
Hitler becomes chancellor
March 1936
Rhineland remilitarised by the Germans
August 1 1936
Berlin Olympics begin
September 1939
World War II declared
July 1944
Attempt to assassinate Hitler - bomb plot
January 20 1942
Final solution
Persecution of the Jews - 1939
Jews can’t own businesses or a radio
Jews live in ghettos
Persecution of the Jews - 1941
Mass shootings of Jews in Russia
Jews forced to wear the yellow Star of David
May 2 1933
Trade unions abolished - enabled Hitler to abolish a possible opponent and set up the German Labour Front
April 24 1934
People’s courts - gave Hitler greater control bee judgements
August 19 1934
Hitler became Führer - he had absolute power
July 14 1933
Political parties banned - one-party state.
June 30 1934
Night of the Long Knives - Destroyed all opposition
April 26 1933
Local government reorganised - Gestapo ruled by terror
June 20 1933
Concordat - allowed Hitler to ban the Catholic Zentrum party without opposition of the church
