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Hitlers rise to power Flashcards

1
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What year did Hitler join the Germans workers’ party

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1919

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2
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When was the Spartacist uprising

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1919

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When did Hitler become leader of the Germans workers’ party

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1920

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What did Hitler do after becoming leader

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changed the name to Germans worker party

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5
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In what year was the Kapp Putsch

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1920

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6
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What year was the SA founded

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1921 it was setup to intimidate opposition parties

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7
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what happened in 1923

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Hitler tried to seize power in the Munich or beer hall putsch

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8
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What did Hitler do while in Prison

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He wrote Mein Kampf to put across his views.
He also decided that the Nazis were going to try and gain power legally.
They thought Reichstag elections and gained 32 seats

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9
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What year did Hitler go to prison

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1924

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10
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what key events happened in 1923

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January: occupation of the Ruhr
The great inflation
August: Stresemann becomes chancellor `

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11
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What year was the Dawes plan announced

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1924

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12
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When was Hindenburg elected president

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1925

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13
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What year did the great depression happen

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1929

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14
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how many seats did the Nazis get in the 1930 elections

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107

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what happened in 1932

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Nazis became the largest party in the Reichstag with 230 however they didn’t get a majority

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16
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What year did Hitler become chancellor

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1933

17
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List 3 policies of the Nazi party

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Increase old-age pension
Remove Jews from all positions of leadership
Destroy the Weimar Republic

18
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What was the SA

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Nazi party was run along military lines
1921 SA formed which was Hitler’s private army.
Main job was to protect Nazi speakers from left wing
However the SA often started the violence by breaking up meetings of the social democratic party.

19
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Who were Hitlers 5 Henchmen

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Josef Goebbels 
Hermann goering 
Rudolf Hess 
Heinrich Himmler
Ernst Rohm
20
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who was Josef Goebbels

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Couldn’t fight in the war as had crippled feet

originally not a supporter of Hitler however changed his mind and appointed editor of the Nazi newspaper

21
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Who Was Herman Goering

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Joined the Nazi Party and placed in charge of the SA

22
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Who was Rudolf Hess

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In early days was Hitlers private secretary and was later responsible for matters of the party’s administration

23
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Who was Heinrich Himmler

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As a youth was frail and timid and was later appointed regional party chief

24
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Who was Ernst Rohm

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Set up and ran the SA for Hitler in 1921
Had helped crush spartacist uprising
Founding member of the Germans workers party

25
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What did Hitler say when describing the collapse of the putsch

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  1. cooperation with general Ludendorff would have been absolutely impossible
  2. The sudden takeover of power in the whole of Germany would have led to the greatest of difficulties in 1923
  3. The events of 9 November, with their blood sacrifice have proven the most effective propaganda
26
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What did Hitler learn from the failures of the Munich Putsch

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That the only way the Nazis were going to get power was by legal means.

27
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how did Hitler reorganize the Nazi party in 1924

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Hitler wanted to make it more successful in election and he began this at the partys re-launch on 27th February 1925

28
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what class did the Nazis focus on winning votes from

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the working class. They discovered that anti jewish message had the biggest appeal.

29
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What change did the Nazis make in the 1928

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realised they were getting no where with working class so decided to focus on middle class

30
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What did the Nazis do instead of television

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They had evening classes for their members to train them in public speaking classes

31
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How was the Weimar government weakened by the great depression

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  1. They feared another great inflation, so instead they raised taxes decreased wages and cut unemployment benefit. This made them very unpopularly
  2. social democrats withdraw from the coalition allowing the president to use article 48 allowing president emergency power. The 84 year old was considered to be controlled by business and army leaders
32
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how many seats did the Nazis have between july 1932 to 1933

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July 1932 they had 230
November 1932, 196
1933 ,288

33
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What happened as a result of the July 1932 elections

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Nazis became the largest party in the Reichstag by far however Hitler wasn’t appointed Chancellor and Von Papen was. He had no support in the Reichstag, and when he tried to form a collation Nazis didn’t want to so another election was called

34
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What happened after the November 1932 elections

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Nazis lost 34 seats and they were running out of money

35
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what events happened in the power struggle between Von papen and Von Schleicher

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in December 1932 Schleicher is reluctantly appointed chancellor
Von Papen uses this as a chance to do some back room negotiating with Hitler.
Hitler will be chancellor and Von Papen in the cabinet
22 January Papen asks Hindenburg to make Hitler chancellor

Von papen convinces Hindenburg that he can control Nazis

30 January 1933 Hitler is Apointed chancellor

36
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What happened as a result of the Reichstag fire

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Hitler encouraged Hindenburg to pass article 48 removing free speech, bought back death penalty and people could be arrested without trial.

37
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Why was the enabling act so important

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1) Trade unions band
2) Opposition politcians band
3) Enemies of the Nazis especially comunists could be executed
4) The SA could search and ransack the homes of opponents
5) opponents driven into exile
6) Nazis intimidated voters by watching over them as they crossed their ballot papers

38
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when was Hitler become President

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Hindenburg died on the 2nd of August 1934 and Hitler was later that day appointed chancellor

39
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why was the night of the long knives so important

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Hitler had personally ordered the death of some of his closest advisers as he feared they may have been planning a uprising. it should that hitler had no mercy and rulled with an iron fist

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