Last Minute Revision Flashcards
Hindenburg elected
1925, 1932
Brüning chancellor
1930-32
Nazis gain largest ever vote but still no majority…
July 1932, 230 seats.
Brüning bans the SA
April 1932
Brüning resigns
May 1932
Schleicher persuades Hindenburg to make him chancellor due to Papen trying to make new rules
November 1932
Reichstag fire
February 1933
Law of the Protection of the People and the State
February 1933
Enabling Act
March 1933
Hitler becomes chancellor
January 1933
Papen ‘buys’ Nazi support
January 1933
Hitler wins a majority vote
March 1933
Hitler becomes Führer when Hindenburg dies in office
August 1934
Night of the Long Knives
June 1934
von Galen spoke out against the Nazi’s euthanasia program and stopped it
1941
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Who was he, what did he do, what happened to him
Member of the Confessing Church, he worked with anti-Nazi resistance. He was arrested in 1943 and died in a concentration camp in 1945.