Nazi Germany 3

Question 1

Why did the NAzis restrict women’s lives

Answer 1

Because in the nazi eye, a woman’s most important function was to bear children, preferably boys

Question 2

What were the marriage loans

Answer 2

If a couple took out a loan and then had a baby, the repayment of the loan was cut by a quarter, this was to increase the birth rate.

Question 3

What happened to women who were ‘unfit’ to have children

Answer 3

Were sterilised-classed as unfit.

Question 4

What was the group for women in Nazi Germany called

Answer 4

The Women’s Enterprise.

Question 5

What did the women’s enterprise do

Answer 5

Trained young women in parenting skills and household tasks.

Question 6

What were women told to stay to

Answer 6

Kinder, Kirche and Kuche- children, church and kitchen

Question 7

What happened between Hitler and the catholic church

Answer 7

Hitler signed an agreement with the pope which said the NAzis would not interfere with the Catholic church and in return, the pope ordered bishops to take an oath of loyalty to Hitler.
Hitler had no intention of keeping this agreement and church schools were shut down. The nazis started to arrest priests and placed them in concentration camps.

Question 8

What happened between the NAzis and the Protestant church

Answer 8

Under Nazi pressure, the protestant church agreed to unite and form a ‘Reich church’. Thye elected a NAzi as their leader and expelled non-Aryan pastors. The keenest called themselves the German Christians and wore Nazi uniforms.

Question 9

What happened to other religions who did not agree with the NAzis and refused to serve the army

Answer 9

Were killed in concentration camps

Question 10

Who was Doctor Joseph Goebbels

Answer 10

led the department of public propaganda and enlioghtenment.-controlling opinions and beliefs.

Question 11

What did Goebbels do to the press

Answer 11

He made sure the press put across NAzi views, non-nazi newspapers were taken over by NAzi publishing companys.

Question 12

What did Goebbels do to radio stations

Answer 12

All radio stations were brought under Nazi control, allowing the NAzis to broadcast ideas and beliefs.

Question 13

What other things did Goebbels organise to increase the loyalty of others to the party

Answer 13

Rallies and campaigns

Question 14

What did Goebbels do to restrict free expression

Answer 14

He used censorship to control people’s thoughts, books were censored.- Books written by Jews and communists were thrown on the bonfire. Entertainment and culture were censored such as jazz music because it had been created by black people.

Question 15

Why was Goebbels’s propaganda so effective

Answer 15

Due to his ability to put out propaganda on a national scale.

Question 16

What were Hitlers three aims in his dealings with other countries

Answer 16

Get back the land taken from Germany in 1919. Unite all German-speaking people in one country. And also gain land for Germany.

Question 17

How was the Saarland returned under German control

Answer 17

After fifteen years of being under French rule, its people could vote to stay under league control, become French or return to German control. 9/10 voted to belong to Germany

Question 18

What was the Saarland

Answer 18

It was one of Germany’s most important coal-producing areas. Through the treaty of Versailles is had been put under the league of nations’ control and let the French-run its coal mines.

Question 19

How did Hitler remilitarise the Rhineland?

Answer 19

The treaty of Versailles left the Rhineland as a demilitarized zone. Many Germans hated this because it hurt their national pride and it left their country open to attack. Hitler therefore in 1936, sent 32,000 troops into the Rheinland.

Question 20

How did the French and the British respond to Hitler remilitarizing the Rhineland?

Answer 20

The French were going through a political crisis at the time and the British felt that Germany was simply entering its own back garden. Neither wanted to go to war over the Rhineland.

Question 21

Why did Hitler want to take over Austria

Answer 21

Because it was forbidden by the treaty of Versailles.

Question 22

How did Hitler take over Austria

Answer 22

He ordered the Austrian Nazi party to stage violent demonstrations and let off bombs to make it look as if the Austrian government could not control the country. Hitler, therefore, sent the German army into Austria to restore order. The Austrian leader protested and made every effort to stop Hitler but failed and resigned. An Austrian NAzi took his place and immediately asked Hitler to send troops into Austria to restore order.

Question 23

What was the Sudetenland

Answer 23

An area of Czechoslovakia, where three million German-speaking people lived.

Question 24

How did Hitler take over the Sudetenland

Answer 24

He set up a Nazi-style party there and ordered them to stage riots and demonstrations to show that the Czechs could not control the Sudetenland. Therefore Hitler sent in troops and the British and French said that the Czechs should hand over the land.

Question 25

How did Hitler bring the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia under his control?

Answer 25

Hitler claimed that the Germans in Bohemia and Moravia were being ill-treated by the Czechs. Hitler threatened to bomb Prague if the leader of the Czechs did not allow the German army to occupy the provinces. The president gave in to his demand

Question 26

Why did Hitler want the Polish corridor and why was the Polish corridor taken away from the Germans

Answer 26

Hitler wanted it because it divided Germany in two. The treaty of Versailles gave the land to Poland so they could reach the ports on the Baltic sea.

Question 27

What were Hitler’s actions with the Polish corridor

Answer 27

Hitler ordered the building of a railway across the Polish corridor. British and French gave Poland a guarantee to protect them from any German attack. Hitler ordered a full-scale invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.

Question 28

When did Britain and France declare war on Germany

Answer 28

3rd September 1939

Question 29

How did France fall to Germany

Answer 29

He defeated the French army and forced the British army to retreat to Dunkirk and flee. On 22 June France surrendered and was divided into two. northern France was occupied by the Germans and Southern France remained independent but was ruled by a pro-German government.

Question 30

What were the ‘mercy killings’

Answer 30

Hitler ordered the use of euthanasia, for incurably ill patients in hospitals. After the SS carried out ‘mercy killings’ in polish mental hospitals.

Question 31

What were Hitler’s actions with Ghettos and the jews

Answer 31

Jews in Poland were made to live in Ghettos, which were walled off areas of town and cities which they were not allowed to leave. Many Jews starved to death over the next four years.

Question 32

What were the special action groups?

Answer 32

The SS followed the German army into the soviet union and killed Jews in every captured village or town. THey rounded them up and made them strip naked. They also locked them in lorries and pumped carbon monoxide gas into the lorry.

Question 33

What was the final solution

Answer 33

The Nazi leaders met at Wannsee, near Berlin, to discuss the final solution to the Jewish problem. They decided the murder every Jew in Europe. Either by working them to death or execution. By 1945 as a result, 6 million Jewish people had been murdered.

Question 34

Upon arrival at concentration camps what would happen

Answer 34

Prisoners were divided into two groups: those who were to work and build factories and those who were to go to ‘shower rooms’

Question 35

How did Jews resist

Answer 35

In the ghettos the Jews organised resistance, the greatest activity was in the warsaw ghetto when several hundred Jews with pistols and petrol bombs tried to halt them. In the end, killing 5,000 jews.

Question 36

How did the war affect civilians in Germany

Answer 36

Many things like food were in short supply, mainly because Germany was cutting imports from other countries in order to be self-sufficient.

Question 37

What did the British do bombing wise

Answer 37

The RAF bombed whole towns and cities because it was hard to find the military targets and factories.

Question 38

What were the effects of the bombings on Germany

Answer 38

The bombings made millions of people homeless and many became refugees. Many were transported into appalling conditions in Germany and many died of col, hunger, disease and exhaustion.

Question 39

What were the actions of Hitler’s left-wing oppositions

Answer 39

Spys like the Red orchestra passed military information to the Soviet army and some carried out strikes and encouraged soldiers to desert from the army.

Question 40

What were the actions of Hitler’s conservative opposition

Answer 40

Held secret meetings and worked out a plan for governing Germany after Hitler had been overthrown.

Question 41

What were the actions of Hitler’s youth opposition

Answer 41

Distributed leaflets placed on posters and graffiti walls.

Question 42

What happened in the Soviet Union in the war

Answer 42

Germany lost a year-long battle for control of Stalingrad, they started to retreat in February 1943

Question 43

What helped boost Britain in the war

Answer 43

USA joined the war on Britain’s side and they arrived in North America and halted Germany’s retreat, then they invaded Italy and Italy surrendered and Germany stayed fighting alone.

Question 44

Why did Germany surrender

Answer 44

Germany came under attack from Northern France with the D-day landings, meanwhile being attacked by air. Therefore Germany could not win the war. Hitler killed himself.

Question 45

What happened to the Nazi leaders after the war

Answer 45

Thousands were put on trial for crimes against humanity and some were hanged and many jailed. Nazy party was made illegal and Germans had to fill out a detailed questionnaire about their past in order to reveal people who had a Nazi background. School books containing Nazi ideas were destroyed and a new curriculum was written, and people were re-educated. The allied authorities took over radio and films to put across democratic views.