Topic 3

Question 1

Who suffered during the Great Depression & why? Business men

Answer 1

• Many businesses closed
  -Income fell as people had less money to spend
• The Weimar raised taxes to pay for the increasing cost of looking after the people
  -Not as bad for business owners as it was for their workers & farmers.

Question 2

Who suffered during the Great Depression and why? Farmers

Answer 2

-They had not benefitted during the ‘Golden Age’
-Prices for produce had been falling since 1925
-During the 1930s they fell further into debt

Question 3

Who suffered during the Great Depression and why? Young people

Answer 3

• In 1933 over half of all Gemans between the ages
  of 16 and 30 were unemployed.
  -60% of new university graduates could not get a job.

Question 4

Who suffered during the great depression and why? Factory workers

Answer 4

• 40% of all Factory workers were unemployed by 1932.
• government cut unemployment to save money.
  -Time of extreme poverty.

Question 5

How did the Great Depression weaken the Weimar Republic? Presidential rule

Answer 5

• Policies caused the collapse of the government.
• The chancellor fell back on Article 48 giving the president (Hindenburg) power.
• Germany led by Presidential decree making Germany very undemocratic.

Question 6

How did the Great Depression weaken the Weimar Republic? Unpopular economic policies

Answer 6

• The chancellor raised taxes, cut wages and reduced unemployment benefits to try and win support from the German people.
• There was another rise in inflation, unemployment and growing poverty.

Question 7

How did the Great Depression weaken the Weimar Republic? Rise of extremism

Answer 7

• Germans thought the Weimar were dealing with the situation badly and many didn’t vote in elections.
• From the right and left extremism parties said they would solve all the problems.
• The communists said said the depression showed the capatilist system was doomed and ond only communism had the answer.
• The Nazis blamed the Weimar the Treaty of Versaillesand Jews which increased political violence.

Question 8

What happened in the beer hall on November 8, 1923?

Answer 8

• Hitler interrupted a political meeting to announce a national revolution.
• held Von Kahr and the gentlemen were held at gunpoint
  -until Hitler went out and told the crowd they had agreed.
• This persuaded the men as they heard a loud cheer and
  -agreed to Ludendorff and Hitler plans reluctantly

Question 9

6 key Nazis party beliefs

Answer 9

• Strong Germany
• Social and Ethnic cleansing
• Lebensraum
• Autarky/ Slef- sufficiency
• Social Darwinism

Question 10

key Nazis party beliefs= Lebensraum

Answer 10

The need for the ‘living space’ for the German nation to expand.

Question 11

key Nazis party beliefs= Social Darwinism

Answer 11

The idea that the Aryan race was superior and Jews were ‘subhuman’

Question 12

key Nazis party beliefs=Autarky/Self sufficiency

Answer 12

The idea that Germany should be economically self sufficient

Question 13

key Nazis party beliefs= Social and Ethnic cleansing

Answer 13

The idea that Germany was in danger from communists and Jews who had to be destroyed

Question 14

key Nazis party beliefs= strong Germany

Answer 14

• The Treaty of Versailles should be abolished and all German- speaking citizens united in one country
• The idea that there should be a single leader with complete power rather than a democracy

Question 15

Nazis party beliefs =

Answer 15

• Socialist
  -Fascist
• Racist
  Nationalist

Question 16

Socialist in Nazis views=

Answer 16

• pensions should improve
  -farmers should be given their own land
• public industries such as electricity and water should be owned by the state

Question 17

Fascist Nazi views=

Answer 17

• Government controls the newspapers
• focused on creating a strong central government

Question 18

Racist Nazis views=

Answer 18

-Jews should not be German citizens
-Immigration should be stopped

Question 19

Nationalist Nazis views=

Answer 19

• There should be special laws for foreigners
• The Treaty of Versailles should be abolished
• All German-speaking people should be united in one country

Question 20

Timeline of Hitler

Answer 20

1919- Hitler joins the German Workers Party (DAP)- a right wing group led by Anton Drexeler.
1920- Hitler became the party’s leading public speaker and propagandist.
1920 - The group changed its name to the National socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Hitler designs the party’s distinctive swastika emblem.
1921 - Hitler was elected party chairman and leader of the Nazis

Question 21

What happened in the Munich Putsch?

Answer 21

Bodyguard -Graf- launched himself in front of Hitler and got shot multiple times
16 Nazis were killed
4 policemen
Hitler was later found and arrested
Ludendorff was arrested

Question 22

What happened on the 9th November 1923? The Munich Putsch

Answer 22

3000 Nazis vs 100 policemen

Hitler couldn’t back fire on the plan now but he believed the police might not fire at them due to Ludendorffs involvement
Von Kahr ( Bavarian PM) had told the police so they were ready, waiting.
Gunshots were fired

Question 23

What happened in the Munich trial- Hitler?

Answer 23

• Trial was In February 1924
  -Röhm was sentenced to 15 months but was released immediately
• Ludendorff was not sentenced any time at all - free
• Hitler used the trial to his advantage- used the press and made his name famous in German.
• He was given a lenient sentence because the judges hated the Weimar and liked his reasoning/ opinions- 5 years but he only stayed in prison for 9 months
• He was imprisoned in Landsberg Castle and he could have as many visitors as he wanted, his own room and he wrote a book - my struggle- Mein Kampf.