Nazi Germany

Question 1

Name the four groups that made up the Nazi Police state.

Answer 1

• gestapo
• SS
• SA
• army

Question 2

What was the role of the Gestapo?

Answer 2

Inform on and be informed of enemy’s of the state

Question 3

How did the Police and courts help the Nazis?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What was the role of the SS?

Answer 4

Control the police

Question 5

Who was the Propaganda minister?

Answer 5

Joseph goebells

Question 6

When were the Berlin Olympics?

Answer 6

1936

Question 7

How did the Berlin Olympics help the Nazis?

Answer 7

• Promoted the government
• propaganda
• international image of Germany

Question 8

How did the Nazis take control of the media in Germany?

Answer 8

Harassed and threatened independent newspaper to pout out their own message

Question 9

Name two ways that the Nazis used to solve unemployment?

Answer 9

• conscription

- public work schemes

Question 10

How many people were still unemployed in Germany in 1938?

Answer 10

1.81 million

Question 11

What was the ‘Strength Through Joy’ programme for workers?

Answer 11

State operation leisure organisation in Germany

Question 12

What was ‘Beauty of Labour’?

Answer 12

Propaganda organisation

Question 13

What did the Nazis do about trade unions?

Answer 13

Abolished all trade unions other than their own

Question 14

What was the Reich food estate?

Answer 14

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Question 15

What happened on Kristallnacht(Night of the Broken Glass)?

Answer 15

Attack on Jewish shops

Question 16

What were the Nazi policies for education?

Answer 16

• removed religion

- focused on history and sport

Question 17

hat was the role of women in Nazi Germany?

Answer 17

Kids, church and kitchen

Question 18

Name three groups who were persecuted in Nazi Germany.

Answer 18

Jews
Homosexuals
Disabled people
Roman gypsies

Question 19

Explain three reasons why Nazi Germany can be seen as a Totalitarian State.

Answer 19

• Dictatorship
• police state
• no other political parties

Question 20

In what year did the ‘Final Solution’ begin?

Answer 20

1941-42

Question 21

Why did the nazis stimulate the economy

Answer 21

• public works
• organising men for work
• militarising labour

Question 22

How successful was the nazi economic plan?

Answer 22

• lack of plan
• nothing extravagant
• adoption of approaches: autarky, deficit financing, wehrwitzchaft

Question 23

Why did Hitler succeed in tackling unemployment where the Weimar Republic had failed?

Answer 23

• public works
• expansion of industries
• massive rearmament
• conscription

Question 24

What impact did the 4 yr plan have on germany?

Answer 24

• shortage of labour
• rise in GNP
• wages- 89% of 1928 level
• rise in industrial output

Question 25

How was the 4 year plan meant to work?

Answer 25

• 4yrs of autarky-impatient with trade deals
• enter goering-In charge of 4yr plan
• turning inward
• gearing up for war