Knowledge test on 03/05/23

Question 1

(Keywords pg 295) Anti-Semitism

Answer 1

Prejudice against Jews.

Question 2

Autobahn

Answer 2

High-speed motorways built by the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s to create jobs.

Question 3

Bauhaus

Answer 3

German design movement incorporating sleek lines and modern materials.

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Beauty of Labour

Answer 4

Nazi movement to improve conditions for industrial workers and try to win their support.

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Chancellor

Answer 5

Head of the government.

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Communist (Bolshevik)

Answer 6

Political, economic and social system involving state control of economy and less emphasis on individual rights and capitalism.

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Concentration camps

Answer 7

Camps used by Nazis to hold political opponents in Germany.

Question 8

Concordat

Answer 8

A deal between the state and the Catholic Church.

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Conscription

Answer 9

Compulsory service to the armed forces.

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Consolidation

Answer 10

Making a position more secure, usually when a political party has just taken power.

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Constitution

Answer 11

A system of government.

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Dawes Plan

Answer 12

Financial aid package provided by the USA to Germany in 1924.

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Democracy

Answer 13

Political system in which the population votes for its government in elections held on a regular basis.

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Diktat

Answer 14

Term used in Germany to describe the Treaty of Versailles because Germany had no say in the terms of the Treaty.

Question 15

Edelweiss Pirates

Answer 15

Youth groups in Germany who opposed the Nazis, especially in the war years.

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Enabling Act

Answer 16

Law passed in 1933 which gave the government powers to arrest opponents.

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Final Solution

Answer 17

Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews and other races in Europe. Generally thought to have begun in 1942.

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Freikorps

Answer 18

Ex-soldiers in Germany after WW1.

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Führer

Answer 19

Leader (German)

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Gestapo

Answer 20

Secret police in Nazi Germany.

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Gleichschaltung (co-ordination)

Answer 21

Process of making sure that all organisations were controlled by Nazis.

Question 22

Hitler Youth

Answer 22

Youth organisation in Nazi Germany designed to prepare young people for war and make them loyal Nazis.

Question 23

Holocaust

Answer 23

The mass murder of Jews and other racial groups by the Nazis in WW2.

Question 24

Hyperinflation

Answer 24

Process of money becoming worthless, most notable instance was in Germany in 1923.

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Kaiser

Answer 25

Ruler of Germany.

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Kristallnacht

Answer 26

Night of Broken Glass - attack on Jewish properties across Germany in November 1938.

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League of German Maidens

Answer 27

Organisation in Nazi Germany for girls designed to get girls to embrace Nazi beliefs and values.

Question 28

Mein Kampf

Answer 28

‘My Struggle’: the autobiography of Adolf Hitler in which he set out his theories about power and racial superiority.

Question 29

Munich Putsch

Answer 29

Attempted revolt by Hitler and Nazis in 1923, aiming to overthrow the government.

Question 30

National Community (Volksgemeinschaft)

Answer 30

Key idea of Nazis in Germany in the 1930s - they wanted people to become part of and promote a ‘National Community.’

Question 31

Nazism

Answer 31

National Socialism, the political belief of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party based on aggressive expansion of German lands and the superiority of the Aryan race.

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Negative cohesion

Answer 32

Term coined by historian Gordon Craig to describe the way different groups in Germany supported the Nazis because they feared the opponents of the Nazis (particularly the Communists).

Question 33

Night of the Long Knives

Answer 33

Attack on Ernst Röhm and other leading figures in the SA in June 1934.

Question 34

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 34

Series of laws passed in Germany in 1935 discriminating against Jews and other racial groups in Germany.

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Nuremberg rally

Answer 35

Huge political meeting held every June from 1923 to 1938.

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Propaganda

Answer 36

Method of winning over a population to a particular idea or set of beliefs. Also used in wartime to raise morale.

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Rearmament

Answer 37

Building up arms and armed forces, used as a means to fight unemployment by many states in the 1930s, including Nazi Germany and Britain.

Question 38

Reichstag

Answer 38

German parliament.

Question 39

Reparations

Answer 39

Compensation to be paid by Germany to France, Belgium, Britain and other states as a result of WW1.

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Republic

Answer 40

System of government which doesn’t have a monarch.

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Ruhr

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Main industrial area of Germany.

Question 42

SA

Answer 42

The Brownshirts - Stormtroopers of the Nazi Party.

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Spartacists

Answer 43

Communists in Germany in 1919 who wanted a revolution in Germany similar to the 1917 revolution in Russia.

Question 44

SS

Answer 44

Organisation within the Nazi Party which began as Hitler’s bodyguard but expanded to become a state within a state.

Question 45

Strength through Joy

Answer 45

Leisure programme run by the Nazis in Germany to improve the lives of ordinary people.

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Totalitarian

Answer 46

Complete control.

Question 47

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 47

Treaty that officially ended war between Allies and Germany in 1919. Controversial because of the terms, which Germany claimed to be excessively harsh.

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Volk

Answer 48

People (German)

Question 49

Weimar

Answer 49

Small town in Germany, home of the German government in the 1920s.