Paper 1-Section A-Part 3 Flashcards

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How did unemployment fall so quickly in Germany?

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  • finances to fund a huge programme of work creations were organised
  • Motorways were built allowing people to get to jobs
  • Nazi Party and SA provided Jobs
  • Young men were required to do 6 months work on practical projects > even though it didn’t pay very much this reduced unemployment
  • Conscriptions were introduced
  • increase in military expenditure
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2
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What are conscription ?

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Compulsory military services

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3
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What groups were not involved in the number of people who were unemployed ? And what happened to them

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Jews -> forced out of jobs but were not counted as unemployed

Women-> they were said they had to raise a family and marry

Opponents of the Nazis-> they were held in concentration camps and were not counted as unemployed

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4
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What did Hilter launch in 1936 and what did this state?

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It was a 4 year plan where he ordered German economy and armed forces to be read for war by 1940

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What 2 organisations did the Geraman Labour Front set up and what did they aim to do?

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  • BEAUTY LABOUR-> aimed to improve conditions so people would be prepared to work extra hours without higher pay
  • STRENGTH THROUGH JOY-> to intended to keep the workforce happy by providing leisure programmes
  • GIVE WORKERS CHEAP CARS-> by hire purchase schemes
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6
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What scheme failed for workers ?

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The one to provide a worker with a cheap car due to the Volkswagen factory no longer making cars

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7
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What did Hitler introduce in order to help Farmers ?

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REICH FOOD ESTATE-> have them a guaranteed market and prices for their goods

REICH ENTAILED FARM LAW-> protect them against bank seizing their land if they could not pay loans or mortgages

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8
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How did the Reich food estate Fail for farmers?

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Banks became unwilling to lend money

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9
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When did shortages become more common in Germany ?

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Summer 1941

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10
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How was the Germany economy from 1939-1942?

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It was good, moral was very high and the people were not suffering very much.

Goods were taken from occupied countries

Working conditions changed

Women worked in war industries

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When did the morale fall and why?

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From 1942 onwards

Due to allies beginning counter attack

Postal services were suspended, letter boxes closed

Entertainment was gone

Massive food shortages

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12
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When did Air raids on German cities begin?

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1940

But 1942 onwards they became heavier and more frequent

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13
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What did the bombing do to Germany ?

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Destroyed factories

Transport systems

Food shortages

Material shortages

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14
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How did the support for Nazis fall ?

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After the 2 years of high moral but when things started getting worse e.g bombing and the city state people where cynical about the propaganda

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15
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What did Nazis promote as the view of woman?

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They should be wives and mothered and kept this up as the woman were taking over Lena jobs

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16
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What measures did Nazis introduce in order to stop birth rates falling ?

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  • INTEREST FREE LOANS-> to young married couples but only if wives gave up work // the loan was ridged every time a child was born
  • MEDELS- woman who had 8 children were given them
  • LAW AGAINST ABORTION
  • MATERNITY HOMES-> to make ur Aryan race existed, Aryan mothered were matched with SS men
  • WONAN WERE SACKED-> for example doctors and civil Servando
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17
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Why were the rules by the Nazis to keep up the Aryan race not always successful ?

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  • People became unable to afford a house

- work shortages developed

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18
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When was education first controlled in Nazi Germany and why?

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From the moment the children started school so that they learnt all the Nazi beliefs

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19
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How were all the schools changed so that the children could learn the Nazi beliefs?

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Textbooks were rewritten so they contained the beliefs

They were taught the Nazi version of the past

Nazi ideas were even in math books

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20
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What were boys taught in school ?

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Military skills and acceptance of war

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21
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What was the main thing woman were taught in school ?

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Motherhood, housekeeping and cookery

22
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What were children taught outside of school in Nazi germany ?

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Nazi beliefs

They were given lots of physical exercise and training

23
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What was the swing movement ?

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Made up of middle class teenagers who went to parties and listening to English band American music but the Nazis had banned this.

Jews were accepted here.

24
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What was the Edelweiss Pirates?

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Working class teenagers in the Rhineland and Ruhr areas

Changed music to Mock Nazi Germany

Attached Hitlers youth groups

25
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What religions did Hitler try to appeal to and why?

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Protestants and Catholics

Due to them both being strong in different parts of Germany

26
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What did the Catholic Church do which made them involved with the Nazis?

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They signed an agreement with the Nazi authorities. However Hitler interfered more and more in the church.

Catholic youth league broke up

Catholic school were changed to Nazi schools- religious teaching were banned

Priests and nuns were arrested

27
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What agreement did the Protestants get into with the Nazis and what were they expected to do?

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The Nazis grouped them into Reich Church

Expected to wear uniforms

28
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What did Hitler believe as the true Germans ?

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Aryan race

29
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What did Hitler make the Jews do in 1933?

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Give up positions of importance

30
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When did Anti Jewish propaganda increase

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1934

31
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What were the 2 laws passed in September 1935 that were against the Jews?

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LAW OF PROTECTION OF GERMAN BLOOD AND HONOUR- banned marriages between Jews and on Jews

REICH CITIZENSHIP LAW- made Jews subjects rather than citizens so they lost legal rights

32
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When were many Jewish businesses seized by the Nazis ?

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September 1937

33
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When were Jewish doctors and dentists, lawyers forbidden to treat Aryans?

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June- July 1938

34
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When did the Jews have to have a red letter j stamped on their passports ?

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October 1938

35
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When were the first mass of Jewish men and boys sent to concentration camps ?

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March 1939

36
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Who else were persecuted along with the Jews ?

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Gypsies

Tramps

Beggars

People with physical disabilities

People with mental problems

37
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What were mass rallies ?

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Best form of propaganda, with shows to show the power and achievements of the Nazis

Involved army parades, music, bands, choirs, speeches and gymnastics displays

38
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How did Hilter use the Berlin olympics of 1936 to propose propaganda?

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He showed off his Aryan Race

Nazi symbols were displayed everywhere

39
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What was censorship?

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The control of information by the government

40
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How did the Nazis use the press to spread ideas ?

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Only Nazi fun newspapers were allowed

41
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How did the Nazis use the Radio to spread ideas?

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All other radio stations were closed down and one was used for propaganda purposes

Cheap radios were made so everyone could buy one

Cafés had radios turned on along with schools and factories

42
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What did Hitler transform Germany into and what did this mean?

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A totalitarian state

Meaning a state that allows no rivals or oppositions to the ruler and his partic

43
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What were the tasks of the SS and the Gestapo?

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For hunting down anyone who was critical of it hostile to the rule of the Nazis.

44
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Who were the White rose group?

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Non-violent, intellectual resistance group.

45
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Who were the White rose group led by?

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Hans and Sophie Scholl

46
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What did the White Rose group become known for ?

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Anonymous leaflets and graffiti ti campaign

47
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How did the White Rose group still succeed even though most of them were killed?

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Their last leaflet was smuggled to allies who edited it and dropped millions of colours over Germany

48
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What is the best know plots to assassinate Hitler ?

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Stauffenberg Bomb Plot 1944

49
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Who was the leader of the Stauffenburg Bomb Plot?

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Colonel Claus Von stauffenberg

50
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What did the Stauffenberg Bomb plot involve ?

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Assassination of Hitler

Mobilisation of army

Arrest Nazi groups - Gestapo

51
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What did the Stauffenberg Bomb Plot consist of?

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He placed a brief case under a conference table very close to hitler -> he left the room when someone moved the brief case -> when the bomb went off he thought everyone was killed but most people survived -> even hitler who hid under a table leg