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.
Who was Martin Niemöller and what happened to him?
He was the leader of the Confessing Church and was anti-Nazi. He was sent to a concentration camp.
Execution of the leaders of the White Rose movement
February 1943
Execution of some of the leaders of the Edelweiss Pirates in Düsseldorf
1942
Who were the “Beck-Goerdeler Group”?
A violent group who by 1942 decided Hitler needed to be removed. They were responsible for the July Bomb Plot.
Stauffenberg July Bomb Plot
20th July 1944
Interest-free loans introduced for women wishing to get married and leave work
June 1933
Married women were banned from top jobs as professionals (doctors, lawyers & civil servants)
1933-36
Nazis made abortion illegal
1933
Jewish women not allowed to marry Aryan men
1935
What was the Lebensborn?
The “Spring of life” where the SS brought up illegitimate or orphaned racially-sound children.
Concordat between the Nazis and the Pope
July 1933
When and who was the first bishop of the Reich Church?
September 1933, Ludwig Müller
Date Confessing Church was started by Neimöller
October 1934
Average working week length increased from __ to __ between __ and __
From 43hrs to 47hrs between 1933 and 1939.
By __ there were _% fewer women in work.
By 1937 there were 6% fewer women in work.
Locarno Pact: Date, what was it & what did it allow
1925, pact between Germany and France and Belgium so they did not invade each other. This allowed Germany to join the League of Nations in 1926.
What was the Rapollo agreement and when was it agreed?
In 1922, Germany did a deal with the eastern borders of Russia. This boosted the economy of Germany, however it upset some right-wing Germans who disliked Communist Russia.
Sparticists Rising
January 1919
Kapp Putsch
March 1920
Red Ruhr Rising
March 1920
Munich Putsch
November 1923
SR Purpose
Start a chain reaction to take over Germany, similar to that of Russia by initiating a general strike and they started a revolution in Berlin.
KP Purpose
To overthrow the Weimar government.
RRR Purpose
Communists wanted a revolution and workers wanted better conditions and wages - 50,000 workers took over factories and raw material supplies.
