The Nazi Dictorship

Question 1

What was the Great Depression?

Answer 1

• Wall Street Crash 1929
  started a global economic depression

Question 2

How did the Great Depression impact life in Germany?

Answer 2

The Great Depression caused massive unemployment rates, poverty and depression

Question 3

Why did the Nazis become more popular during the Great Depression?

Answer 3

• Hitler - a talented speaker and he made promises that appealed to people
  Propaganda
  SA Brownshirts

Question 4

How did Hitler Reach total power in Germany in 1934?

Answer 4

Hindenburg died in 1934 meaning that Hitler now had complete authority in Germany

Question 5

What were some of the things Hitler promised?

Answer 5

• Jobs and prosperity
• promised to rip up the Treaty of Versailles
• promised to rebuild Germany
• Key Election message - Work, Freedom and Bread

Question 6

SA Brownshirts

Answer 6

• Led by Ernst Rohm
  -job was to intimidate opponents and beat up political opposition. There were 3 million of them.

Question 7

Night of Long Knives - Why it occurred .

Answer 7

• ## Relationship between Rohm and Hitler has deteriorated as Hitler made vague promises to the SA and they felt they’d been been betrayed as he didnt live up to his promises.

Question 8

Night of Long Knives

Answer 8

• July 29th- 30th Hitler sent men to kill/arrest Rohm and other political opponents,
  85 people were killed and Hitler claimed his actions were legal as those killed were plotters trying to overthrow the government.

Question 9

What consequences did the Night of The Long Knives have?

Answer 9

• Reduced the power of the SA
  -Gained Hitler the loyalty of the army
  -Stamped out political opposition and sent a message about of Hitler’s brutality and ruthlessness.

Question 10

Reichstag Fire

Answer 10

• 27th Feb 1933, Reichstag was set alight and inside Marinus Van der Lubbe (communist) was caught inside. He confessed and claimed this was a wider communist plot to destablise Germany.

Question 11

What happened on the 30th January 1933?

Answer 11

• Hindenburg offered Hitler the position of Chancellor as he’d grown concerned with with Hitler’s popularity in attempts to control, manipulate and use his popularity.

Question 12

What was the significance of the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 12

• Seen as a national emergency and evidence of communist threat
  4000 communists were arrested during the week including 100 members of the Reichstag.

Question 13

Article 48

Answer 13

• stated in a national emergency the president/chancellor could make laws without the Reichstag.

Question 14

Enabling Act

Answer 14

-passed in March 1933
-allowed Hitler to pass laws without the Reichstag
–Essentially end of democracy.

Question 15

Gleichschaltung ‘Coordination’

Answer 15

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