NSDAP 1918-1924

Question 1

WHAT was the DAP?

Answer 1

The German Workers’ Party (Nazis)

Question 2

WHO was the founder of the DAP?

Answer 2

Anton Drexler

Question 3

WHAT did the DAP change their name to?

Answer 3

The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (or, NSDAP)

Question 4

WHEN was the Nazi party’s name changed / WHEN was the 25 point programme?

Answer 4

1920

Question 5

WHEN did Hitler become a member of the DAP?

Answer 5

September 1919

Question 6

WHEN did Hitler become the chairman and leader of the Nazi party?

Answer 6

July 1921, after he threatened to resign

Question 7

WHEN was the SA set up?

Answer 7

August 1921

Question 8

WHAT was ‘lebensraum’?

Answer 8

‘Living space’. Hitler believed in expanding Germany and taking over the territory on the east to provide Germans with food and raw materials

Question 9

WHAT were the nationalist aspects of the 25 point programme?

Answer 9

Point 1: Lebensraum
Point 2: abolition of the Versailles Treaty
Point 4: ‘No Jew may be a member of the [German] nation’
Point 25: a strong, centralised, authoritarian government was needed to enforce the 25 point programme

Question 10

WHAT were the socialist aspects of the 25 point programme?

Answer 10

Point 9: all citizens have equal rights and duties (however, citizenship was dependent on ‘pure’ blood)
Point 24: state provision for education, health, mothers, children and old-age pensioners

Question 11

WHAT were the causes for the Munich Putsch?

Answer 11

1) The right-wing local government of Bavaria wanted to rebel against the Weimar Republic, especially after Stresemann called off passive resistance, but the rebellion was postponed early November
2) ALL Germans were angry after passive resistance in the Ruhr was called off
3) The SA was growing as well as Nazi party membership

Question 12

WHEN was the Munich Putsch?

Answer 12

8th November - 9th November 1923

Question 13

HOW did the Munich Putsch start?

Answer 13

Hitler and SA troops took control of a right wing meeting run by Otto von Lossow and Gustav von Kahr in a Munich beer-hall

Question 14

WHO were the Bavarian leaders of the meeting that Hitler took control of at the start of the Munich Putsch?

Answer 14

Otto von Lossow (commander of the Reichswehr in Bavaria) and Gustav von Kahr (minister president of the right-wing Bavarian government)

Question 15

WHAT were the key events of the Munich Putsch?

Answer 15

1) Hitler and SA took control of Munich beer hall
2) Meeting’s leaders were forced at gunpoint to support them
3) SA seize other Bavarian government members
4) Ebert declares a state of emergency
5) Ludendorff persuades Hitler to continue marching to Munich, believing that the army would support him
6) They are met by soldiers and armed police
7) Hitler and Ludendorff are arrested

Question 16

HOW MANY Nazis were involved in the Munich Putsch and HOW MANY were killed?

Answer 16

2,000 marched into Munich and 16 were killed

Question 17

HOW were the leaders treated after the Munich Putsch?

Answer 17

They were tried for treason:
- Ludendorff was acquitted (made not guilty)
- Hitler was given a light sentence of 5 years, but was released only several months later

Question 18

WHAT were the failures for the Nazis after the Munich Putsch?

Answer 18

• The Nazi party was banned
• Hitler was arrested

Question 19

HOW did Hitler take advantage of the consequences of the Munich Putsch?

Answer 19

• Wrote Mein Kampf while in prison
• Used his trial as a platform to expound his views and gain antional fame
• Taught him to change his tactics from taking power through force to taking power through the ballot box