(P2) Hitler's rise to power

Question 1

What year was the Dawes Plan?

Answer 1

1924

Question 2

How much gold marks did Germany receive from the Dawes plan?

Answer 2

800 million gold marks

Question 3

When did Stresemann die?

Answer 3

October 1929

Question 4

Why did Germany collapse again during the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 4

Americans stopped giving loans as economy drowned

Germany couldn’t repay loans

Question 5

Who voted for communism during Germany’s depression?

Answer 5

unemployed workers

apart from those employed directly by Nazis

Question 6

Who voted for the Nazi party during the depression?

Answer 6

the lower, middle-class professionals and businessmen who suffered less but were worried about communism

Question 7

How many were unemployed during the depression?

Answer 7

6 million by 1932

Question 8

What was the only way to increase government expenditure?

Answer 8

print more money

this was unthinkable after 1923 hyperinflation

Question 9

When did Heinrich Bruning become chancellor

Answer 9

1931

Question 10

What did Bruning do ‘help’ the depression?

Answer 10

he raised taxes, but it caused problems for businesses

reduced unemployment benefit and wages of officials though they bought less and demand fell

Question 11

How did government fall during the depression?

Answer 11

political parties withdrew from the coalition in protest so it was impossible to put together another coalition

Question 12

Why did President Hindenburg introduce Artical 48?

Answer 12

to reduce power of Reichstag

Question 13

Why did people support extremest parties such as the Nazis

Answer 13

they shared hatred of the treaty of Versailles and reparations

Question 14

Why did people support the Nazi’s over other extremest parties?

Answer 14

they promised jobs for the unemployed,
help for employers to increase profits
help farmers and shop-keepers

Question 15

Who was in charge of propaganda

Answer 15

Joseph Goebbels

Question 16

Who funded the Nazi’s?

Answer 16

wealthy industrialists

ie. Henry Ford and Alfred Krupp

Question 17

Who were the SA?

Answer 17

Hitlers private army to ‘protect’ the Nazi party

Question 18

How many ‘stormtroopers’ (a.k.a SA) were there in 1933?

Answer 18

half a million

Question 19

What did the SA do to their opponents

Answer 19

they beat them up, especially communists

Question 20

How many seats did the Nazis win in 1930? 1932?

Answer 20

1930 = 107 seats

1932 = 230 seats

Question 21

How many votes did Hitler and Hindenburg get for presidency in 1932?

Answer 21

Hitler = 13 million

Hindenburg = 19 million

Question 22

Why and when did Bruning resign as chancellor?

Answer 22

1932

Hitler forced him to

Question 23

Who did Hindenburg appoint as chancellor when Bruning resigned.

Answer 23

He usd emergency powers to appoint Franz von Papen

Question 24

Who did Hindenburg ask to be chancellor in december 1932 after von Papen

Answer 24

Schleicher, though he resigned after 8 weeks

Question 25

When did Hitler finally become chancellor

Answer 25

30 January 1933

Question 26

When was the Reichstag fire?

Answer 26

27 February 1933

Question 27

Who was inside the Reichstag when it was on fire?

Answer 27

Communist, Marinus van der Lubbe and he had matches in his pockets

Question 28

What did Hitler do when he found out about communist being in the building

Answer 28

he used emergency powers so that communist leaders would be arrested and their newspapers were shut down

Question 29

How many seats did the Nazis win in the March 1933 vote

Answer 29

288, with support from nationalist party (52 seats)

Question 30

When was the enabling law introduced and what was it?

Answer 30

23 March 1933 allowed Hitler to make laws with consulting the Reichstag passes by 444 to 94

Question 31

How many communist parties did Hitler ban?

Answer 31

81

Question 32

Who was the leader of the SA

Answer 32

Ernst Roehm

Question 33

Why did Hitler hate the SA after gaining total power

Answer 33

Roehm's views were more socialist | Many were homosexual which conflicted with an image of respectability

Question 34

When was and what was the night of the long knifes

Answer 34

30 June 1934 | Hitler claimed SA were plotting a seize power and ordered SS to arrest its leaders

Question 35

Who was killed in the night of long knifes?

Answer 35

SA leaders, including Roehm and von Schleicher

Question 36

When did Hindenburg die?

Answer 36

2 August 1934 Hitler immediately took the title of Fuhrer

Question 37

When did the German army swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler?

Answer 37

2 August 1934, same day as Hindenburgs death

Question 38

How many members were there in the SS by 1934 and who was the leader

Answer 38

50,000 terror organisation Heinrich Himmler

Question 39

Who were the Gestapo

Answer 39

Hitler's secret police that could spy on people, read their mail and tap their telephones so they could detect disloyalment of the government

Question 40

Who were the 'edelweiss pirates' and the 'white rose'

Answer 40

open opposition groups against Hitler

Question 41

What is one concentration camp set up in 1933 called?

Answer 41

Flossenburg

Question 42

How did Nazis use propeganda?

Answer 42

censored news, cinemas, radio shows

Question 43

When was the concordat made between Hitler and the Church

Answer 43

1933, stating that they would not interfere with each others business

Question 44

How did Nazis control education

Answer 44

They were taught that Weimar had betrayed Germany Stressed the Aryan race in biology PE trained future soilders

Question 45

What was the Hitler youth?

Answer 45

aimed to get young people to accept Nazi ideas trained them for future service and ensure they were loyal

Question 46

When was it compulsory to join the HY

Answer 46

1935 8 million were involved by 1939

Question 47

What was the league of German maidens

Answer 47

prepared woman to be good mothers and child-bearers

Question 48

What was beauty of work movement

Answer 48

set up to encourage people to be proud of their work and encourages Germans to work more

Question 49

What was strength through joy

Answer 49

organised people's leisure so free time wasn't wasted rewards increased the incentive to work hard

Question 50

What was the 1933 encouragement of marriage

Answer 50

granted newley married couples a loan of 1000 marks to encourage coupls to have children they allowed them to keep 250 marks for each child

Question 51

When were jews forced to have yellow stars?

Answer 51

1934

Question 52

When were Jewish businesses boycotted

Answer 52

1933

Question 53

What was the Nuremberg laws and when was it passed

Answer 53

1935 Jews were no longer German citizens

Question 54

What is Genocide

Answer 54

attempt to destroy a whole race of people

Question 55

How many jews died in the Nazi holocaust

Answer 55

6 million

Question 56

What other groups did Hitler not like?

Answer 56

Gypsies, black people, beggars, homosexuals, and the disabled