Nazi Germany - The Big Story 1919 to 1934

Question 1

When was the Nazi party founded?

Answer 1

1919

Question 2

Who founded the Nazi party?

Answer 2

Anton Drexler

Question 3

Which wing is the nazi party?

Answer 3

Right wing

Question 4

When did Hitler take over leader ship

Answer 4

1921

Question 5

When did the nazis try and takeover by force?

Answer 5

1923

Question 6

The nazis tried to take power by force in the what?

Answer 6

The Munich Putsch

Question 7

How long was the party banned for?

Answer 7

2 years

Question 8

Hitler wrote what in jail?

Answer 8

Mein kampf

Question 9

In what year did the nazis relaunch and decide to take power through democracy

Answer 9

1925

Question 10

What is the SA?

Answer 10

The nazis own personal army also known as the brown shirts.

Question 11

Who was in charge of propaganda?

Answer 11

Goebbles

Question 12

Who was the SS?

Answer 12

An elite force of soldiers who wore black shirts

Question 13

What showed the weinmar government to be failing?

Answer 13

The wall street crash leading to a great depression

Question 14

What did the nazis want to abolish?

Answer 14

The treaty of Versailles

Question 15

What had the treaty of Versailles reduced?

Answer 15

The German army

Question 16

What are 2 things the nazis promised?

Answer 16

1. To deal with the depression by offering people food and work
2. To get more german territory through the policy of lebenstraum

Question 17

Why did they want to destroy the communists?

Answer 17

They were concerned there might be a revolution in Germany

Question 18

Who did the nazis believe were racially supreme?

Answer 18

Aryans

Question 19

Who did they believe were racially inferior?

Answer 19

Jews

Question 20

What did the nazis believe jews should not have?

Answer 20

The same rights or be viewed as citizens.

Question 21

In what year did the nazis win the election and Hitler made chancellor?

Answer 21

1933

Question 22

What 3 restrictions did the nazis have on his power?

Answer 22

1. Communists had a large amount of support
2. Germany was a democracy
3. People could rise up

Question 23

What date did the Reichstag building burn down?

Answer 23

27th February 1933

Question 24

Who was caught burning the reichstag building?

Answer 24

A dutch communists called Marius Van der Lubbe

Question 25

What did the nazis say the reichstag fire was?

Answer 25

A wider communist plot

Question 26

Hitler used the reichstag fire to persuade president Hindenburg to pass what?

Answer 26

The Reichstag Fire Decree

Question 27

What did the Reichstag Fire Decree restrict?

Answer 27

Civil liberties

Question 28

How many communists were arrested as a result of the reichstag fire decree

Answer 28

4000 communists and the party was banned

Question 29

When did nazis win the election and how many seats?

Answer 29

5 march 1933 they won 288 seats

Question 30

Who did the nazis join with to get a majority?

Answer 30

Nationalists

Question 31

When was the enabling act passed?

Answer 31

24 march 1933

Question 32

What did the Enabling Act do?

Answer 32

Gave Hitler the power to pass any law without consulting anyone

Question 33

What does Gleichschaltung mean?

Answer 33

Bringing into line, coordination, takeover

Question 34

2 ways the nazis put people in a state of fear?

Answer 34

1. Book burning | 2. Civil Service act

Question 35

In the first 6 months jews were targeted and persecuted by?

Answer 35

Preventing working in legal or medical profession and county wide boycott

Question 36

Why did the Nazis turn on the trade unions?

Answer 36

They were concerned they might try to organise a strike

Question 37

After what day were the trade union leaders arrested?

Answer 37

A Day of National Labour

Question 38

The Nazis set up what to replace the trade union?

Answer 38

The Deutsche Labour Front

Question 39

What was the first party the nazis removed?

Answer 39

The Social Democrats

Question 40

On 14th July the nazis passed a law to do what?

Answer 40

Remove all political parties

Question 41

Why did Hitler create the People's court?

Answer 41

Hitler was frustrated that the courts wouldn't do his bidding

Question 42

The People's court was different in what ways?

Answer 42

Only nazi approved judges were chosen and the number of death penalties imposed increased

Question 43

The Nazis wanted to reduce the Local Government power by what act?

Answer 43

Act for the Reconstruction of the State

Question 44

Germany was split into how many Gaue?

Answer 44

42

Question 45

Why were the SA a threat?

Answer 45

They were being increasingly violent and difficult to control and their leader Rohm was openly talking about taking over.

Question 46

When and where were the SA arrested?

Answer 46

On the 30 June 1934 at a hotel outside Munich

Question 47

In the night of the long knives the SA and what other opponents were arrested?

Answer 47

SA and all conservative opponents.

Question 48

Overall how many people were murdered?

Answer 48

85 people including Rohm

Question 49

3 impacts of the Night of Long Knives?

Answer 49

1. The power of the SA was reduced 2. Legality of murder as a political tool 3. The rise of the SS and Himmler

Question 50

When did Hindenburg die?

Answer 50

2 august 1934

Question 51

What did Hindenburg's death allow Hitler to do?

Answer 51

Combine offices of Chancellor and President. Hitler had total power and took the new title Fuhrer