Key Issue 3 (1939 - 1949) Flashcards
Hitler's rule as the Fuhrer and total Nazi control - leading to defeat during WW2 and a partitioned Germany (46 cards)
What was the SS?
Hitler’s public police
What event on 27th February 1933 helped Hitler consolidate power?
Reichstag Fire
What law, passed on 23rd March 1933, gave Hitler dictatorial powers?
Enabling Act
What happened to political parties in Germany by July 1933?
One-party state - ‘Law against the formation of New Parties’
What was the Night of the Long Knives (29-30 June 1934)?
Purge of Hitler’s opposition - notably former SS man Ernst Rohm
How did Hitler become Führer in August 1934?
Hindenburg’s death
What was Nazi coordination policy?
Gleichschaltung
What was the role of the Gestapo?
Secret police enforcing Hitler’s will
Who led the SS?
Heinrich Himmler
What was the People’s Court?
Nazi controlled court used to punish opposition
Who was the Nazi Propaganda Minister?
Joseph Goebbels
What was the Reich Chamber of Culture?
Nazi controlled art
What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Rallies?
To showcase Hitler’s orator skills
What happened to anti-Nazi books?
Book burnings
What was the Nazi slogan for women?
Children, Kitchen, Church
What was the White Rose Group?
Students against Hitler, executed Hans/Sophie Scholl in 1943
Who led the Edelweiss Pirates?
Klaus Thormann
What was the July Bomb Plot (1944)?
Failed assassination attempt on Hitler
Who led the July Bomb Plot?
Claus von Stauffenberg
What was the Confessing Church?
Church that opposes the Nazis
What were the Nuremberg Laws (1935)?
Jewish people being outcasted from society
What was Kristallnacht (1938)?
A violent pogrom against Jews
Where were the first concentration camps?
Dachau, Germany
What was the Final Solution?
Extermination to the Jewish Problem
