life in nazi germany: turing germany into dictatorship- reichstag fire.

Question 1

what does lebensraum mean?

Answer 1

living space. would re-build their empire.

Question 2

what does anti-semitism mean?

Answer 2

hatred of jews.

Question 3

what does anti-marxsism mean?

Answer 3

hatred of communists.

Question 4

what does aryan strength mean?

Answer 4

ideal that the aryan race were the master race.

Question 5

what is the strong centeral government?

Answer 5

all workings of the country came from one person and one centeral governemnt.

Question 6

what does arbeit und brot mean?

Answer 6

work and bread.

Question 7

what does fuhrerprinzip mean?

Answer 7

hitler controlled everything.

Question 8

what are the features of a democracy?

Answer 8

• regular elections, nobody knows who you voted for.
• different political parties you can vote for.
• press aren’t controlled by governemnt and press can critise them.
• government has limited control over peoples lives.

Question 9

what are the features of a dictatorship?

Answer 9

• usually controlled by 1 person or small group of people in charge.
• government closely controls parts of peoples lives, through fear or violence.
• those in charge ban other political parties.
• government controls press and media.

Question 10

when was the reichstag fire?

Answer 10

27 february 1933.

Question 11

who did the nazis blame for the reichstag fire?

Answer 11

marinus van der lubbe.

Question 12

why was the person the nazis claimed started the fire significant?

Answer 12

a communist.
it was believed they’d done it to gain power.

Question 13

what was significant about when the fire happend?

Answer 13

1 month after hitler became chancellor.

Question 14

dealing with communists: what did hitler persuade president hindenburg to use article 48 for and when?

Answer 14

pass the reichstag fire decree.
28 february 1933.

Question 15

dealing with communists: what did the reichstag fire degree mean the governemnt could do?

Answer 15

arrest and imprision political opponents without specific charge, dissolve political organisations, and ended freedome of the press.

Question 16

dealing with communists: how many communists did the SA and the police arrest?

Answer 16

4000.

Question 17

dealing with communists: how many members of the reichstag were arrested with the 4000?

Answer 17

over 100.

Question 18

dealing with communists: who was the leader of the german communist party and was he arrested?

Answer 18

ernst thalmann.
yes.

Question 19

dealing with communists: who were banned from the reichstag?

Answer 19

communists.

Question 20

dealing with communists: what was censored?

Answer 20

newspapers, letters and telephone calls.

Question 21

dealing with communists: what were the german people bombarded with?

Answer 21

anti-communist propaganda.

Question 22

nazis win march 1933 election: what did the nazis use their access to the countrys resources for?

Answer 22

to get their message across- propaganda.

Question 23

nazis win march 1933 election: what did hitler do on the 31st january, what did he talk about and what did he say would happen?

Answer 23

hitler gave speech to germans.
balmed communist party for all the countrys problems.
said communists were planning a national uprising.

Question 24

nazis win march 1933 election: how many extra police did goering hire, who were they and what event did they police?

Answer 24

500,000.
all nazi supporters.
march 1933 election.

Question 25

nazis win march 1933 election: in the march 1933 elections what did the brownshirts do?

Answer 25

used violence and intimidation against political opponents.

Question 26

nazis win march 1933 election: in the march 1933 elections campaign how many people were killed?

Answer 26

59.

Question 27

enabling act: what did the reichstag do on the 24th march and why?

Answer 27

met and passed enabiling act.
fears of communisum and attacks on democracy.

Question 28

enabling act: who was all the power passed to and what power did it give them?

Answer 28

chancellor- hitler.
pass laws without consulting the reichstag or the president.

Question 29

enabling act: what did it temporarily ban and what power did it give the police?

Answer 29

freedom of speech, freedome of the press and freedome to protest.
arrest without trial and search property.

Question 30

enabling act: how many people passed the act and how many disagreeded and what did this mean for the reichstag?

Answer 30

444 votes to 94.
reichstag voted itself out of existance.

Question 31

enabling act: how many times did the reichstag meet and what did it act as?

Answer 31

12 times in 11 years.
rubber stamp.

Question 32

achieving gleichschaltung: what was it?

Answer 32

ways nazis consollidated their power.

Question 33

achieving gleichschaltung: when did it start and finish?

Answer 33

january 1933- july of that year.

Question 34

achieving gleichschaltung: book burning- when, why and who started it by what may how had it evolved?

Answer 34

april- german students burnt books as a programme to elimate foreign influence to purify german culture.
34 universitys followed through with plan to burn book.

Question 35

achieving gleichschaltung: civil service act- on the 7th april what did the givernemnt pass, what did it do and originally who did it exclude?

Answer 35

restoration of the professional civil service.
banned jews and other political opponents of the nazis from all civil service positions.
veterans of world war one or those with a farther or son killed in action during ww1.

Question 36

achieving gleichschaltung: jewish boycott- on april 1st what did the nazis carry out and how did they do it?

Answer 36

first nationwide boycott of jewish buisnesses and professionals.
SA stood in frount of jewish shops, dr and lawyer offices. painted star of david on the doors. signs posted ‘don’t buy from jews’ ‘jews are our misfortune.’

Question 37

achieving gleichschaltung: jewish boycott- what did jews expeience and what support did they recieve?

Answer 37

violence and damage to themselves and their property. limited police help.

Question 38

achieving gleichschaltung: opening of dachau- what happend on march 22, what did it serve as?

Answer 38

concentration camp for political prisioners. served as model for later camps and as schoodl of violence for SS men under whose command it stood.

Question 39

achieving gleichschaltung: opening of dachau- how long was it open for, how many people were killed, how many people were imprisoned, when and who was it liberated by?

Answer 39

12 years of existance.
200,000 imprisioned.
41 1/2 housand killed.
liberated by americans april 1945.

Question 40

achieving gleichschaltung: removing trade unions- why was he german trade union movement powerful?

Answer 40

lots of members.

Question 41

achieving gleichschaltung: removing trade unions- what happend on the 2nd march and what happend to many of their leaders?

Answer 41

tarde union offices taken over by SA and SS- many of their leaders arrested and sent to dachau.

Question 42

achieving gleichschaltung: removing trade unions- what was banned, those working for the nazis what weren’t they allowed to negotiate?

Answer 42

inderpendant trade unions banend.
all workers now worked for nazis and weren’t able to negotiate wages and working conditions.

Question 43

achieving gleichschaltung: banning other political parties- what didn’t nazism want and what did that mean/ look like?

Answer 43

democracy, only 1 party.
- communists banned since reichstag fire.
- after destruction of trade unions, social democrats banned. (political party.)
- most of the major remaining parties willingly agreed to close.