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1
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When was the German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) founded?

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January 1919

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When did Hitler and Drexler publish the Twenty Five points programme?

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February 1920

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What were the key points of the Twenty Five points programme?

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  • scrap treaty of Versailles
  • combined left wing with right wing ideas, mass appeal
  • hints at nationalism
  • lebensraum(a living space, place for all German speaking people to live together)
  • Volksgemeinschaft (a people’s community//unification)
  • anti-semitism
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4
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When did Hitler become chairman of NSDAP?

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July 1921

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When did Hitler join NSDAP?

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September 1919, he was the 55th member. Sent in by the army to spy but ended up believing in the ideology

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6
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When was the Munich Putsch?

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November 1923

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7
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When was the wall street crash?

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October 1929

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8
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When did the NSDAP buy the peoples’ observer?

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December 1920

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9
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When were the SA created?

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July 1921

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10
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What did the SA engage in on the 4th of November 1921?

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A running battle with socialists at a political meeting in Munich

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11
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How many party members did the NSDAP have by mid 1923?

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55,000

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12
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Who did the NSDAP want to make president during the Munich Putsch?

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General Ludendorff

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What happened to Hitler as a result of the Munich Putsch?

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He was tried for high treason in February//March 1924

He received a five year sentence

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14
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Where//when did Hitler write Mein Kampf?

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In prison, 1924

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What were the main points of Mein Kampf?

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It was Hitlers Weltanschauung.

  • elimination of Jewry from German life
  • the provision of Lebensraum
  • destruction of communism
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16
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What does Munich Putsch mean?

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Push for power

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17
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How many votes did the nazis win in the May 1924 election (in alliance with other parties from the right)

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1.9 million votes or 6.5%

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18
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Why was the NSDAP re-founded in 1924?

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They had a poor showing in the December elections, only winning 3% of the vote

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What was established at the NSDAP party conference in February 1926 at Bamberg?

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A new autocratic, central structure
Adherence to the programme of 1920
Obedience to Hitler and the Fuhrerprinzip

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20
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Define Fuhrerprinzip

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Established the complete authority of the leader, Hitler

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21
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Why did Hitler try to quell the SA in 1926?

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He wanted a semblance of legality for the party

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What did the SA do in an attempt to show the public that the party had control over its paramilitary arm?

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Hitler and the other politicians did a staged March over past SA members at Weimar in July 1926

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23
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When was the Hitler youth founded?

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1926

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24
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How did the Nazi party fare in the May 1928 election?

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Dismally, only 2.6% of the vote

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25
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What aided the party to rapidly transform in to a mass movement?

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The creation of Nazi professional bodies in October 1928

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26
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How did the party draw peasants in to the movement?

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They founded the AA in 1930, which managed to infiltrate and dominate other important agrarian based organisations such as the Reichslandbund

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27
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What proportion of Nazi members were under 40 in 1930?

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2/3

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28
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How many German workers were unemployed by 1933?

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1 in 3 or 6 million

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29
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What proportion of the votes did the nazis win in June 1930 in the saxony landtag?

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14.4%, which was 9% higher than the previous year

30
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How many seats did the nazis win in the September 1930 election?

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They went from 12 to 107 seats

31
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How many new supporters joined the nazis between September 1930 and the end of the year?

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100,000

32
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What did the nazis average in regional elections throughout 1931?

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40%

33
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How many emergency decrees did Bruning pass? What did this show?

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1930-5
1931-44
1932-66
He saw himself as responsible to the president and not the Reichstag, and so was making action to please him rather than the government

34
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What did the emergency decree of April 1932 ban?

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The SA and SS

35
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When did hitler become chancellor?

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January 1933

36
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When was Von Papens Prussian coup d’état?

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July 1932

37
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When did Von Papen dismiss the Prussian government?

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20th July 1932

38
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Why did Von Papen dismiss the government?

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Under the grounds that political violence meant it had failed to keep the peace

39
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How many seats did the Nazi party win in 1932?

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230 seats or 37.3% of the vote

40
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When did the Nazi party become the largest in the Reichstag?

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1932

41
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What was the significance of the 1932 election

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It gave the Nazi party legitimacy

42
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What made the NSDAP party attractive to other parties as an ally?

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If was a mass movement with a broad base of popular support

43
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Where was the Nazi vote the weakest?

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Urban areas which were dominated by the working class

44
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What was Volksgemeinschaft

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A national community based on racial identity

45
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What was a vote for the Nazi party seen as a protest against?

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The failure of the parties of the Weimar Republic and the political system itself

46
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How many votes did the DNVP gain from workers in 1924?

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2 million- it’s assumed the Nazi party attracted these voters by the turn of the decade

47
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When did Hitler open discussions with Von Papen about the conditions of which he would join the government?

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August 1932

48
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What political stalemate did the 1932 elections reinforce?

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Hindenburg wanted to continue presidential government but refused to appoint Hitler as chancellor until he achieved a majority in the Reichstag
The Nazi had the ability, with the centre party, to vote down a government at will

49
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Who was offered vice chancellorship when Von Schleicher was chancellor?

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Gregor strasser, a leading and popular Nazi figure

50
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What happened as a result of schleichers economic policy in 1932?

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It was seen as far too left wing, so initiatives were undertaken to create a government of the right, which would include NSDAP and Von Papen

51
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When was Hitler appointed chancellor?

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30th January 1930

52
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How many nazis were in Hitlers first government?

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Three, hitler as chancellor, frick as minister for the interior and goring as minister without portfolio

53
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What did the hitlerite regime need to be to establish a broad political consensus?

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Perceived as legitimate, law abiding and respectable

54
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When was Hitlers appeal to the German people?

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1st February 1933

55
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When was the Police reinforced by SA ‘volunteers’

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22nd February 1933

56
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What does Gleichschaltung mean?

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Coordination

57
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When was the head office of the KPD ransacked? What did goring claim to find?

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24th February 1933, evidence of plans for a communist takeover

58
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When was the Reichstag fire?

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27th February 1933

59
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What gave the Nazi party the legal means to begin the seizure of power?

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The Reichstag fire

60
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What emergency decree did the Nazi party issue in order to seize power?

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The protection of people and state, February 28th

61
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What did the Nazi party suspend that was enshrined in the Weimar constitution?

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Freedom of press, speech and assembly

62
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How many political prisoners were in custody in Prussia in April 1933?

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25,000

63
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How many seats did the nazis win in the March election of 1933?

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288

64
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Who did the nazis ban from the Reichstag despite them winning 4.8 million votes

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All communist kpd deputies

65
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When did Hitler present the enabling act to the Reichstag?

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23rd March 1933

66
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What did the enabling act grant Hitler?

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Four years of power as a dictator

67
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What did the enabling act essentially do?

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Vote the Reichstag out of existence, the government no longer needed to consult them to pass laws

68
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When did hitler dissolve all local government?

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31st March 1933

69
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When were trade unions disbanded?

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2nd may 1933

70
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When were the SPD banned?

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22nd June 1933

71
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What happened on the 14th of July 1933?

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The Nazi party was declared the only legal party in Germany

72
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When did the Catholic Church sign the concordat?

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20th July 1933

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