Nazi - Key Dates - Timeline

Question 1

Nazi Party Become largest party

Answer 1

1932 - The Nazi’s win 230 seats In the election
- 37% of voters support Hilter

Question 2

Hitler Appointed chancellor

Answer 2

30th of January 1933
Hitler is appointed Chancellor By President Hindenburg

Question 3

ReichStag Fire

Answer 3

27th of February 1933
- The Reichstag Building caught fire
- Dutch Communist Va Der Lubbe is arrested and then executed for suspicion

Question 4

Reichtag Fire Decree

Answer 4

28th of February 1933
- The Nazi use the fire to pass a decree to ban communist parties and suspending civil liberties

Question 5

Enabling Act

Answer 5

23rd of March 1933
- the act gives Hitler complete authority over Germany
- Allowed Hitler to put through new laws without interference from the president or reichstag

Question 6

Night of The Long Knives

Answer 6

30th of June 1934 - Hitler removes enemies of the party through a purge of critics. Victims include Ernst Rohm and other leading Nazi’s

Question 7

Hindenburg Dies

Answer 7

June 1934 - Dies of Lung Cancer, Hitler merges the roles of Chancellor and president. Hitler rules Germany undisputed

Question 8

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 8

September 1935 - The nazis restrict freedoms for jews and seek to define a Jew
- Jews were stripped of German citizenship
- marriage between Germans and jews were banned
- Taking away political rights

Question 9

Kristallnacht

Answer 9

9th November 1938 - Violence against Jews across Germany , SS members and destroyed synagogues and Jew Businesses
- 7,500 Jewish shops are destroyed
- 400 Synagogues are burnt

Question 10

Re-armourment

Answer 10

• 1935
• Hitler Rearms Germany with the aim of undoing the TOV and uniting all German people. Conscription introduced (age 18)

Question 11

Anschluss

Answer 11

• March 1938
• 99% of Austrians wanted to be occupied by Germany
• Austria agree to be under German Occupation

Question 12

Munich Agreement

Answer 12

1938
- Signed between Britain, France and Germany
- Permitted Nazi take over of the Sudetenland
- Part of the Britain appeasement policy

Question 13

Invasion of the Sudetenland

Answer 13

• 1938
• Due to the Munich agreement Germany invade the Sudetenland.

Question 14

Nazi soviet pact

Answer 14

• 1939
• 10 year non aggression pact between Germany and Soviet union.

Question 15

Invasion of the Rhineland

Answer 15

• March 1936
• Germany Break the TOV
• 22,000 troops took over the Rhineland

Question 16

Anglo German Naval Agreement

Answer 16

• June 1935
• Britain agree to let germany expand there Navy by 35%

Question 17

Pact of steel

Answer 17

• May 22 1939
• Alliance between Germany and Itlay
• Linking the countries Politically and Militarily