key topic 2•hitler's rise to power, 1919-33

Question 1

Anti-Semitism

Answer 1

Hatred of Jews

Question 2

German Workers’ Party (DAP)

Answer 2

An anti-Weimar government party set up by Anton Drexler

Question 3

Nationalise

Answer 3

To change from private ownership to state ownership

Question 4

Nazi Party

Answer 4

The National Socialist German Workers’ Party set up by Hitler in 1920

Question 5

SA

Answer 5

Hitler’s private army set up to protect Nazi meetings and disrupt those of his opponents

Question 6

Twenty-Five Point Programme

Answer 6

The main aims and principles of the Nazi Party

Question 7

General Ludendorff

Answer 7

One of the German army leaders during the First World War. After the war, he criticised the new republic and accused it of having ‘stabbed the army in the back’

Question 8

Wall Street Crash

Answer 8

Collapse of the US stock market on 29 October 1929 leading to the Depression and world economic crisis

Question 9

Josef Goebbels

Answer 9

Joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and, in 1928, was elected to the Reichstag. Appointed head of propaganda of the Nazi Party in 1929. In 1933 he was appointed Minister if Public Propaganda and Enlightenment

Question 10

Paul Von Hindenburg

Answer 10

A leading general in the First World War, becoming chief of the general staff in 1916. He retired from the army in 1918 and supported the ‘stab in the back’ theory. President of Germany 1925-34

Question 11

Franz von Papen

Answer 11

Entered politics in 1918 as a member of the Catholic Centre Party and four years later was elected to the Reichstag. He eventually became a favourite of Hindenburg. When Hitler became Chancellor, in January 1933, von Papen was his Vice-Chancellor