Key names/dates/events Flashcards

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Who were the leaders of the Spartacists?

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Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

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Who were the Freikorps?

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Paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I.

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Who was the leader of the Kapp Putsch?

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Dr Wolfgang Kapp.

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Who were the SA?

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The private political army of the Nazi party, also known as the ‘Brownshirts.’ Nazi ‘Stormtroopers’

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Who was Friedrich Ebert?

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The first president of the Weimar Republic, he was leader of the Social Democratic Party.

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Who was Hugo Hasse?

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A German socialist politician, he co-chaired the Council of the People’s Deputies after the German Revolution and was later murdered as a result.

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Who was Matthias Erzberger?

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A German publicist and politician who signed the German surrender in 1918.

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Who was the Anton Drexler?

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The leader of the German Workers Party (DAP).

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Who was Gustav Stresemann? (2)

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He became chancellor of Germany in 1923.

He became foreign minister in 1926.

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What was the name of the book Hitler wrote in 1925?

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Mein Kampf.

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Who were the SS?

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Hitlers protection squad. They were totally loyal to Hitler and were his bodyguards, he did not fully trust the SA. ‘Blackshirts’

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Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II?

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Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor, he ruled the German empire before his abdication in 1918.

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Who was Joseph Goebbels?

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Reich minister of propaganda and public enlightenment.

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Who was Ernest Rohm? (2)

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The leader of the SA.
Changed alliance because Hitler refused to give him more control over the SA, murdered during the night of the long knives.

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Who was Rudolph Hess?

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Orchestrator social policies surrounding the Jews.

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What were the Nuremberg Laws? (2)

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Orchestrated by Rudolph Hess.

Persecution of the Jews.

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Who was Heinrich Himmler? (2)

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Led the social policy on the holocaust and concentration camps. His idea to transform them into ‘death camps’
In charge of the SA and next in succession for leader of the Nazi party after Hitler.

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Who was Herman Goering?

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Air force and military coordinator.

19
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What were the Nuremberg Trials?

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When America tried key Nazis for war crimes.

20
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What was Wannsee conference?

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Made the formal and official deccission from exhilling the Jews to exterminating the Jews.

21
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When and what was the NIght of the broken Glass?

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Hitler stepped up his persecution of the Jews and burnt synagogue’s and smashed up german business, 500 Jews were killed in one night.
November 1938.

22
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Define ‘Kristallnacht’

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HItler deciding to violently persecute the Jews.

23
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Who was Marinus van de Lubbe?

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Dutch Communist suspected of burning down the Reichstag.