Nazis

Question 1

How did Hitler become ‘Hitler’

Answer 1

• Raised by Jewish grandmother and mother after physically abusive father died
• Possibly had sexual development with mother

Question 2

Where was Hitler born?

Answer 2

Austria

Question 3

Hitler’s school year

Answer 3

• School dropout
• Rejected by the imperial art school

Question 4

What happened to Hitler while in Vienna?

Answer 4

• He became a Fanatical nationalist and absorbed anti- Semitic and racist ideas

Question 5

What ideas did he adopt of fanatical Christians

Answer 5

that capitalism and liberalism resulted in excessive individualism

Question 6

Why did Hitler dislike Jews?

Answer 6

• believed Jews were the reason that Hitler wrote the first world war
• believed in a Jewish Marxian plot to destroy German culture

Question 7

By 1921 Hitler had reshaped the__________ into the _____?

Answer 7

The tiny German Workers group into the Nazi party

Question 8

What was a common way Hitler used to convince people of things?

Answer 8

Propoganda

Question 9

What does Hitler attempt to overthrow in 1923?

Answer 9

The Weimer government

Question 10

The outcome of Hitler trying to overthrow the Weimer government in 1923

Answer 10

He was defeated and sent to jail, which brought him alot of publicity

Question 11

When did the Nazi party grow significantly?

Answer 11

1929

Question 12

What is Mein Kampf?

Answer 12

Hitler’s autobiography which he wrote in jail about how he wanted 1. achieve German racial supremacy
2. dominate Europe under the leadership of a dictator (Fuhrer)

Question 13

How did the depression affect the Nazi party?

Answer 13

• made the Nazi party attractive to the lower middle class and to young people who were unemployed soared and communits made election gains

Question 14

Size of the Nazi party in 1932

Answer 14

The largest in the Reichstag

Question 15

Why did the Weimer government welcome Hitler’s attack on the republican system?

Answer 15

• Their orthodox economic policies made the economic collapse worse and convinced the middle class and its leaders were incompetent

Question 16

How did Hitler manipulate people?

Answer 16

• skilled politician, a master of propaganda and mass psych who generated enormous emotional support with his speeches

Question 17

Why was Hitler legally appointed chancellor in 1933?

Answer 17

Conservative and nationalistic politicians believed that they could control Hitler

Question 18

What gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power?

Answer 18

The Enabling Act of March 1933

Question 19

What aspects of German life did Nazi’s take over

Answer 19

• every aspect; political, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual

Question 20

Legal parties in Germany:

Answer 20

Nazi party

Question 21

What was abolished in the Nazi State and Society

Answer 21

• Strikes and labor unions

Question 22

Life when homes and universities were brought under Naxi control

Answer 22

Life became violently anti intellecutal

Question 23

How did Hitler take total control of the military

Answer 23

by purging the storm troopers

Question 24

Who were the Gestapo

Answer 24

the secert police

Question 25

What did Hitler promise

Answer 25

• To pump money into public work projects and military spending

Question 26

Did Hitler deliever on his promise to To pump money into public work projects and military spending

Answer 26

yes

Question 27

Why was Hitler popular?

Answer 27

• put money into public work projects and military spending
• Unemplyment dropped +standard of living rose
• With the exception of Jews and certain minorty groups expierenced greater opportunities and equality
• Reduced Germany’s traditional class distinctions
• Some historians believe that he brought on a real social revolution
• Appelaed to Germany nationalstically
• Communists, trade unionsists and some Christians who opposed Hitler were killed

Question 28

What groups did Hitler dislike

Answer 28

Jews, Salvs, gypsies, jehovah’s witneses communists and homosexuals