Nazi rise to power

Question 1

What are the 11 steps to securing Nazi germany?

Answer 1

1. get rid of opposition
2. secure power
3. eliminate disloyalty
4. control the army
5. gain nation’s respect
6. reward nation for its support -carrot and stick
7. control+indoctrinate impressionable people
8. create more loyal Germans
9. Improve German economy and infrastructure, create jobs
10. reward workers for cooperation
11. Remove ‘improper’ germans

Question 2

When was the Munich putsch

Answer 2

9 november 1923

Question 3

Why did Hitler do the Munich putsch?

Answer 3

• inspired by Mussolini’s march on Rome in ‘22
• government crisis -hyperinflation + Ruhr crisis
• largest his part had ever been

Question 4

Why Munich?

Answer 4

• Right wing Bavarian government, possible better chance at persuading them to join his cause
• Kahr (right wing politician) also plotting putsch-join together?

Question 5

Why did the Munich putsch fail?

Answer 5

• Army didn’t refuse to fire, like in Rome, as Hitler hoped
• Ludendorff let right wing party members who they’d trapped in the beer hall go home to their ‘worried wives’- Kahr called the army
• Ludendorff marched on to the centre- war hero- but the army didn’t join him
• Public didn’t rally + join Hitler

Question 6

When was hitler’s trial for the Munich putsch

Answer 6

February 1924

Question 7

What was the out come of the nazi trial and how did it benefit Hitler?

Answer 7

• Gave Hitler a national platform on which he could speak
• Ludendorff went free
• Hitler sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg castle- only served 9 months-privaliged, nice stay even allowed visitors
• gave Hitler time to think and write his book
• establishes his reputation

Question 8

What was the name of Hitler’s book and what did it mean?

Answer 8

Mein Kamf

My struggle

Question 9

When did Hitler establish the SA and what where they

Answer 9

1921
Friekorps- ex soldiers
Bully boys of the nazi party
Did the nazi’s dirty work 
Enforced party slogans 
Trained for war
Fought communists

Question 10

When did Hitler become the leader of the nazis?

Answer 10

1922

Question 11

What was the impact of the failure of the Nazis to take over Munich?

Answer 11

• Hitler imprisoned
• Party newspaper banned
• Nazi party banned until 1935
• Hitler decided to gain power from the inside

Question 12

How did the nazis try to win votes from 1924-29?

Answer 12

• Policies to appeal to factory workers and farmers- liberate ‘poor misused slaves’ and make them racially pure
• gained support form the middle class—alarmed by failure of democracy wanted a strong leader and government which Hitler promised them
• support from wealthy business men — afraid of communism taking their stuff, financed Hitler

Question 13

When was the wall street crash?

Answer 13

24 October 1929

Question 14

How did the wall street crash help Hitler?

Answer 14

—rise of communism lead to increased support from rich of nazis-financed propaganda
—showed that Weimar wasn’t working; in rebased support of middle class- wanted a stable leader- demand for change
—Hitler provided Jobs in SA and soup kitchens for poor. -Known as the caring party- rise in suppport

Question 15

What (7) reasons helped Hitler become chancellor?

Answer 15

• Wallstreet crash+depression
• fear of communism
• Other attempts at control of chancellor failed
• Tried to/Thought they could control Hitler
• Nazis were biggest party
• Hindenburg already denied Hitler once
• SA’s actions
• Nazi propaganda