Rise of Nazi Germany

Question 1

Adolf Hitler’s early life

Answer 1

Nazi in 1919 after fighting, vicious nationalist, 1923 imprisoned and wrote Mein Kampf after trying to overthrow Bavaria

Question 2

Growth of Nazis

Answer 2

1933 biggest party/ 1934 Hindenburg makes Hitler Chancellor to control him, but becomes dictator when he dies. Also Nazis take over Reichstag

Question 3

Hitler’s society

Answer 3

Hitler Youth, heavy discrimination, deficit spending

Question 4

Hitler’s police

Answer 4

SS–Schutzstaffel (subdivision gestapo) under Heinrich Himmler

Question 5

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 5

1935 –Jews aren’t citizens, had to wear star of David, couldn’t marry or sex non-Jews

Question 6

Kristallnacht

Answer 6

November 9, 1938–Nazis destroy shops, synagogues, homes and send thousands to concentration camps–mass emigration

Question 7

Aggressive foreign policy

Answer 7

Threatened war to lower restrictions, high military spending, Left LoN in 33

Question 8

What was Hitler appeased with?

Answer 8

Navy smaller than Britain, Rhineland 1936, anschluss 1938 (Austria and Sudetenland), Czechoslovakia

Question 9

Munich Agreement

Answer 9

let Hitler into Austria–Chamberlain says “There is peace in our time”

Question 10

Alliances

Answer 10

France and USSR, Germany and Italy and Japan to fight Communism

Question 11

Spark of war

Answer 11

Hitler signs non-aggression with USSR and they squash Poland–September i, 1939