Nazi Germany

Question 1

What year did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

Answer 1

30 January 1933

Question 2

What did the nazi party oppose?

Answer 2

the Treaty of Versailles, democracy, and Jewish people

Question 3

What event led to a significant increase in Nazi support between 1929 and 1932?

Answer 3

The 1929 Wall Street Crash and the resulting Great Depression

Question 4

How many seats did the Nazis hold in the Reichstag by 1932?

Answer 4

230 seats

Question 5

What did the Nazis promise the working class?

Answer 5

“Work freedom and bread”

Question 6

What was the Weimar Republic’s main failure that contributed to Hitler’s rise?

Answer 6

Inability to deal with the economic crisis

Question 7

What did president hindenburg declare after the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 7

Emergency decree

Question 8

What act did Hitler pass in March 1933 to gain legislative power?

Answer 8

The Enabling Act

Question 9

What was the purpose of the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 9

To eliminate rivals WITHIN the Nazi Party

Question 10

What title did Hitler declare for himself after Hindenburg’s death?

Answer 10

Führer

Question 11

What was the role of the SS in Nazi Germany?

Answer 11

To control the police and security forces

Question 12

What was the first concentration camp established by the Nazis? What year? Who was sent there

Answer 12

Dachau (1933). Opposition

Question 13

Who was appointed as Minister of Propaganda in 1933?

Answer 13

Goebbels

Question 14

What was the purpose of the Concordat with the Pope?

Answer 14

To prevent Catholic priests from interfering in politics

Question 15

What were women expected to be

Answer 15

housewives and mothers

Question 16

What did the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage (1933) offer?

Answer 16

Loans of 1,000 marks to women who left their jobs.

Question 17

What was the compulsory youth organization that all youths had to join? What year?

Answer 17

Hitler Youth. 1936

Question 18

What was the average number of children per couple in Germany in 1939?

Answer 18

3.3

Question 19

True or False: The Nazis controlled education by requiring teachers to swear loyalty to Hitler.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

What was the main focus of the Nazi education curriculum?

Answer 20

Emphasis on Nazi ideals, including the need for more living space

Question 21

What was the increase in membership of the Hitler Youth from 1932 to 1939?

Answer 21

From 100,000 members to over 8 million

Question 22

Who was Niemoller and what did he do?

Answer 22

A Protestant Pastor who set up the non-Nazi Confessional Church

Question 23

What were the Edelweiss Pirates known for?

Answer 23

Attacking Hitler Youth members

Question 24

When was the reichstag fire

Answer 24

Feb 1933

Question 25

What was the result of the enabling act

Answer 25

Making laws without the power of the Reichstag

Question 26

What was the gestapo?

Answer 26

Secret police

Question 27

Who was forced to swear loyalty to hitler?

Answer 27

Judges

Question 28

What was the people’s court? What did this affect

Answer 28

Set up to allow judges to make quick decisions. Leading to the increase of death penalties

Question 29

The Protestant churches were combined to create what?

Answer 29

Reich Church

Question 30

What did goebbels use to showcase Nazi power

Answer 30

Rallies

Question 31

How were the 1936 Berlin Olympics affected by propaganda?

Answer 31

Turned into films and nazis controlled the press and shut down opposition newspapers

Question 32

Question 6. How many marks? How many paragraph? Structure?

Answer 32

7 marks. 2 short paragraphs. Ice pik

Question 33

What was the primary expectation of women in Nazi Germany?

Answer 33

Women were expected to be housewives and mothers. ## Footnote This reflected the Nazi ideology that emphasized traditional gender roles.

Question 34

What did the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage (1933) provide?

Answer 34

Loans of 1,000 marks to women who left their jobs, reduced by a quarter for each child born. ## Footnote This policy aimed to encourage women to focus on family life.

Question 35

How did the marriage rates change due to Nazi policies?

Answer 35

Marriages increased, but the average number of children per couple decreased. ## Footnote Average number of children per couple: 1932: 3.6, 1939: 3.3.

Question 36

What was compulsory for youth in Nazi Germany by 1936?

Answer 36

Joining Nazi youth groups. ## Footnote For example, membership in Hitler Youth grew from 100,000 in 1932 to over 8 million by 1939.

Question 37

What did the Nazis control in education?

Answer 37

The Nazis controlled education by requiring teachers to swear loyalty to Hitler and enforcing a curriculum that emphasized Nazi ideals. ## Footnote For instance, geography lessons taught that Germans needed more living space.

Question 38

Fill in the blank: By 1936, it was _______ to join Nazi youth groups.

Answer 38

compulsory.

Question 39

True or False: The average number of children per couple increased from 1932 to 1939.

Answer 39

False.

Question 40

Average number of children per couple 1932-39

Answer 40

1932: 3.6 1939: 3.3.

Question 41

What was the reich labour service?

Answer 41

It was to reduce unemployment, they gave people jobs

Question 42

By what year did men age 18-25 have to do

Answer 42

Had to serve for 6 months by 1935