TOPIC 3 The Nazi Rise To Power And End Of The Weimar Republic

Question 1

In ….. the …… (DAP) was founded by ….. in Munich, Bavaria

Answer 1

1919
German Workers Party
Anton Drexler

Question 2

In …… Hitler attended a DAP meeting, Drexler was impressed and ….
By the end of 1919, the DAP only had ….. members

Answer 2

September 1919
Asked him to join
50

Question 3

Hitler discovered that he was a good ……..
He became responsible for the ……..

Answer 3

Public speaker (orator)
Recruitment and propaganda

Question 4

In ……. Hitler and Drexler wrote a political manifesto called ……

Answer 4

February 1920
The 25 Point Programme

Question 5

…. Was added to the DAP’s name to become known as the NSDAP

Answer 5

Nationalist Socialist

Question 6

In ….. the NSDAP grows rapidly and starts to publish its own newspaper: ….

Answer 6

1920
The Volkischer Beobachter (People’s Observer)

Question 7

In …. Hitler becomes leader of the NSDAP

Answer 7

July 1921

Question 8

Hitler had the title ….. for him it meant ….
This was the …… (his Leadership Principal) and became the cornerstone of the party’s organisation

Answer 8

Fuhrer
Absolute power and authority
Fuhrerprinzip

Question 9

Hitler adopted the …. as the emblem of the party and the use of the …..

Answer 9

Swastika
One armed salute

Question 10

In …… Hitler employs a protection squad which developed into the ……… led by ……

Answer 10

1921
Sturmabteilung (SA) (Stormtroopers)
Ernst Rohm

Question 11

Nazi membership grew from ….. in 1920 to …… in 1923

Answer 11

1100
55,000

Question 12

By ….. Hitler believed that the Nazi party could …….. and then ….

Answer 12

1923
Overthrow regional government in Munich
March on Berlin

Question 13

1923 Hitler had been influenced by …..

Answer 13

Benito Mussolini’s seizure of power in Italy in 1922

Question 14

Bavarian government was led by ….., army chief …… and police chief …..

Answer 14

von Kahr
von Lossow
von Seisser

Question 15

On ……, Hitler and 600 Nazis seized the Burgerbraukeller where the ……

Answer 15

8th November 1923
Bavarian government was meeting

Question 16

Hitler convinced the three leaders to ……

Answer 16

Support his planned takeover

Question 17

On ……, ……. changed their minds and organised troops to resist hitler’s planned March through Munich

Answer 17

9th Nov 1923
Von Seisser and Von Lossow

Question 18

Hutler’s planned march was known as ….

Answer 18

The Munich Putsch

Question 19

Hitler proceeds with the march but is ….

The Putsch results in …… and …… being killed

Answer 19

Easily overpowered by the well-armed police force
16 Nazis
4 policemen

Question 20

Hitler disappeared but is ……. two days later, the same day that …..

Answer 20

arrested for treason (along with his main supported General Ludendorff)
The Nazi Party is banned

Question 21

Hitler’s trial began in …… and lasted ….

Hitler used the trial as a……

Answer 21

February 1924
One month

Public platform to announce his political beliefs to a national audience

Question 22

On ….. Hitler was found …. of treason
Judge treated him leniently and gave him minimum sentence of …..

Answer 22

1st April 1924
Guilty
5 years

Question 23

Hitler served only ….. of his sentence in Landsberg prison

Whilst in prison he completes his autobiography ….. which contained his …

Answer 23

9 months

Main Kampf (My Struggle)
Political views

Question 24

Key ideas in Mein Kampf included:
X4

Answer 24

• The abolition of the treaty of Versailles
• The elimination of Jews from Germany
• Volksmeinschaft (people’s community) where the strongest races dominate the weakest
• lebensraum (living space) to create a greater Germany where all German speaking people would be incorporated into the nation

Question 25

In …… the Nazi Party relaunched and Hitler …..

Answer 25

February 1924

Began to take control once again

Question 26

Bamberg Conference in …… Hitler appoints ….. as ……

Answer 26

1926
Gregor Strasser
Propaganda Leader

Question 27

Hitler appoints Josef Goebbels as …… of Berlin

Answer 27

Gauleiter (local party leader)

Question 28

Hitler forces …. to resign as leader of the SA

Answer 28

Rohm

Question 29

Hitler creates his own bodyguard unit, the …… which became known as the ….

Answer 29

Schutzstaffel
SS

Question 30

The ….. is set up to rival other youth groups

Answer 30

HitlerJugend (Hitler Youth)

Question 31

In ….. the 25 Point Programme is amended to say that ….

Answer 31

1928
Privately owned land would be confiscated if owned by a Jew

Question 32

Nazi Party numbers grew from …. In 1925 to over….. by the end of 1928

Answer 32

27,000
100,000

Question 33

The Nazis won only …. seats in parliament in the 1928 elections having held … in 1924

Answer 33

12
32

Question 34

Hitler targets the …. classes as a key electoral group

Answer 34

lower

Question 35

….. replaces Strasser as Party Propaganda Leader

Answer 35

Goebbles

Question 36

In ….. the Wall Street Crash creates ……

Answer 36

1929
an economic disaster and unemployment bargain to rise again in Germany

Question 37

The …… and ……. created circumstances that greatly favoured the Nazi Party

Answer 37

Wall Street Crash
Depression

Question 38

The USA withdrew …….

Answer 38

The loans made under the Dawes Plan

Question 39

International trade began to …. and the German exports …… in the years after 1929

Answer 39

Contract
Fell rapidly

Question 40

The …… cripples the German economy.
Some Germans unable to ….. and found themselves …..

Answer 40

Great Depression
pay their rents
living on the streets

Question 41

Unemployment continued to rise in …. and by …. the total figure exceeded….

Answer 41

early 1930s
early 1932
6 million

Question 42

The …. became increasingly looked towards parties such as the Nazis to offer solutions

Answer 42

Unemployed and the hungry

Question 43

The ….. was growing and like the Nazis promised a way out of the depression

Answer 43

German Communist Party (KPD)

Question 44

In March 1930 Chancellor …. was replaced by Henrich Bruning of the … Party

Answer 44

Muller
Centre

Question 45

…. did not have majority and had to rely on president Hindenburg using ….

Answer 45

Bruning
Article 48

Question 46

General election in ….. the Nazis became the second biggest party in Germany

Answer 46

September 1930

Question 47

By the early 1930s the Nazis owned …. newspapers

Answer 47

120

Question 48

….. was able to promote the ideals and image of the party in ………. elections

Answer 48

Goebbles
local, regional and presidential

Question 49

The Nazi Party received financial backing from …

Answer 49

Leading industrialists

Question 50

….. election was a breakthrough for the Nazi party
They gained …. seats, 95 more than the previous election

Answer 50

1930
107

Question 51

In …. presidential elections - Hitler defeated by ….

Answer 51

1932
Hindenburg

Question 52

In 1932, the Nazis won …. seats and had become the …….

Answer 52

230
largest party in the Reichstag

Question 53

Chancellor …… of the ….. Party did not relinquish his post and begun scheming with ….

Answer 53

Von Papen
Centre
President Hindenburg

Question 54

In September 1932, Von Papen …..

Answer 54

dissolved the Reichstag

Question 55

In …… the vote drops to …. seats, however they are still the …… party

Answer 55

November 1932
196
Largest

Question 56

Von Papen loses ….. and resigns and is succeeded by ….

Answer 56

Hindenburg’s confidence
Von Schleicher

Question 57

Von Papen convinces Hindenburg that ….

Answer 57

a coalition government with Hitler as chancellor would save Germany

Question 58

On …. Hitler becomes Chancellor

Answer 58

30th Jan 1933