Nazi germany

Question 1

Who is Ebert

Answer 1

Former Chancellor of the German Reich

Question 2

Hindenburg

Answer 2

Field marshal and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I.

Question 3

Hitler

Answer 3

politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

Question 4

Goebbels

Answer 4

Minister of propaganda under Hitler

Question 5

Himmler

Answer 5

SS Chief Heinrich Himmler was chief architect of the “Final Solution.”

Question 6

Rohm

Answer 6

Comander of the SA. Supporter of hitlers

Question 7

End of WW1

Answer 7

Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies on November 11, 1918

Question 8

The Treaty of Versailles

Answer 8

Produced by the victors of WW1 in 1919 at the Paris peace conference to rebuild Europe. Although Germany was not invited to the conference, they still had the treaty imposed on them. (heavy reparations and land loss)

Question 9

What is Hyperinflation

Answer 9

As part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany owed reparations (6600 million pounds) to the victor nations. Because they didn’t have enough money to repay them, the government printed more money, therefore devaluing the currency(1923)

Question 10

Start of the Great Depression

Answer 10

In 1929 as the Wall Street Crash. led to a worldwide depression. Germany suffered more than any other nation as a result of the recall of US loans, which caused its economy to collapse. Unemployment rocketed, poverty soared and Germans became desperate.

Question 11

Hitler becomes chancellor

Answer 11

Hitler required the vote of the Centre Party and Conservatives in the Reichstag to obtain the powers he desired. 1933

Question 12

The Night of the Long Knives

Answer 12

purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler on June 30, 1934. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including Ernst Röhm.

Question 13

Nuremberg laws (1935)

Answer 13

1935, laws that the thid reich imposed on Jews living in Germany. Includinh;not allowed to drive cars, not allowed to attend university, can be thrown out of their homes at an time ect.

Question 14

Kristallnacht

Answer 14

(1938)Also called ‘night of the broken glass’, 267 Jewish worship places burnt or destroyed, 7500 Jewish owned stores vandalised, 91 Jews murdered.

Question 15

Start of WW2

Answer 15

1939, Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany.

Question 16

Start of Final Solution

Answer 16

1941,

Question 17

Defeat of Nazi Germany (1945)

Answer 17

(1945)

Question 18

What and when was the reichstag fire?

Answer 18

The Reichstag fire occurred on February 27, 1933, in Germany. It was a pivotal event that Hitler used to consolidate power. This event made hitler chancellor

Question 19

What was the enabling act?

Answer 19

The Enabling Act, passed in 1933, granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers, enabling him to enact laws without the Reichstag’s approval.

Question 20

Who are the freikorps?

Answer 20

Former WW1 veterans, but due to the army restrictions caused by the treaty of versailles, were unemployed.

Question 21

What is the stab in the back theory?

Answer 21

The “stab-in-the-back” theory falsely blamed internal enemies, especially Jews and socialists, for Germany’s defeat in World War I.

Question 22

who were the spartacists

Answer 22

extreme left wing revolutionary group in Germany.

Question 23

what was the kapp putsch

Question 24

Under what name did the nazi party form?

Answer 24

National socialist German workers.

Question 25

what was the munich putch?

Answer 25

The Munich Putsch, also known as the Beer Hall Putsch, occurred in 1923 when Adolf Hitler attempted to overthrow the Bavarian government, resulting in his arrest.