Rise of Nazi Power

Question 1

what is anti-semitism

Answer 1

hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or ethnic group

Question 2

what is the Aryan

Answer 2

Imagined race of German people that the Nazis tried to promote(blonde hair, blue eyes, pale skin etc)

Question 3

what is facism

Answer 3

extreme nationalism in interests of an ethnic group or nation

Question 4

what is the Gestapo

Answer 4

German secret police and enforced Nazi policies

Question 5

what is inflation

Answer 5

increase of prices and decrease in value of money

Question 6

what is an orater

Answer 6

skilled public speaker

Question 7

what is a putsch

Answer 7

violent attempt to overthrow the government

Question 8

what are the stormtroopers

Answer 8

members of Nazi also known as the “SA” or “Brown shirts”

Question 9

what is the Weimar Republic

Answer 9

German government existing between 1919 & 1933

Question 10

what is a democracy(when Germany declared a republic)

Answer 10

all citizens were legally equal and leaders elected through a democratic process

Question 11

finish the sentence: Many German judges, businessmen, military personal did not support the __ __.

Answer 11

Weimar Republic

Question 12

the Enabling Act allowed the German chancellor to make laws as quickly as possible, without the approval of parliament. What were the consequences of this?

Answer 12

It caused a weakness in German democracy

Question 13

There were 3 political movements(parties) in Weimar Germany, name them

Answer 13

the Left wing, Centre wing and Right Wing

Question 14

were the Right Wings(political movement in Germany) communists, social democrats or Freikorps/national socialists

Answer 14

they were Freikorps/national socialists

Question 15

Finish the sentence: The creator of communism Karl Marx believed that the __ of the working class by wealthy business owners would lead to a __ and the creation of a equal society

Answer 15

exploitation, revolution

Question 16

give the year the Soviet Union created

Answer 16

1922

Question 17

why did many German veterans join paramilitary groups(Freikorps) who provided a sense of purpose and the familiarity of military order

Answer 17

many veterans were unemployed and struggled to integrate back into civilian life

Question 18

how much did Germany have to pay for the war reparations

Answer 18

$269 billion

Question 19

what did the French do when the economic conditions worsened in Germany & the government fell behind on its payments to France and what did this show in Germany

Answer 19

they invaded the Ruhr industrial region to take payments from the factories, this showed the weakness of Germany

Question 20

name 3 positive results that happened when the USA offered Germany financial loans

Answer 20

• improvement in the economy
• less unemployment
• less civil unrest
• new German currency introduced

Question 21

what started in 1929 when the USA economy crashed

Answer 21

The Great Depression

Question 22

finish the sentence: many Germans lost faith in democracy and began to look for strong __

Answer 22

leadership

Question 23

where was Hitler born

Answer 23

Austria

Question 24

what did Hitler want to become when he was younger when he wanted to study

Answer 24

an artist

Question 25

finish the sentence: Hitler became an enthusiastic German __ and was exposed to German anti- __.

Answer 25

nationalist, anti-semitism

Question 26

how did Hitler describe the war

Answer 26

"greatest of all experiences"

Question 27

what did Hitler believe the German defeat was due to

Answer 27

"stab in the back"

Question 28

who did Hitler blame for the defeat

Answer 28

politicians, Jews and communists

Question 29

what party did Hitler attend in 1919

Answer 29

German Worker's Party in Munich

Question 30

what was the symbol called that was used for those trying to imagine a Germanic "master race"

Answer 30

The Swastika

Question 31

what was the race called that the Nazis tried to use to justify their own racist beliefs by imagining different nations as belonging to different "races"

Answer 31

The "aryan" race(which is known to be completely false)

Question 32

name 3 of Hitler's ideas when his ideas began to appeal to Germans

Answer 32

- scrap the Treaty of Versailles - the creation of a "Greater Germany" - racial citizenship(Jews not allowed to vote) - promoted a strong central government rather than a democracy - big businesses should be nationalised - control of the press

Question 33

finish the sentence: in 1923, Hitler and the Nazis tried to seize power in the German city of Munich by using the __ __.

Answer 33

paramilitary SA

Question 34

how long was Hitler sentenced to prison and how long did he serve

Answer 34

sentenced 5 years and served 1 year

Question 35

what was the book Hitler wrote called

Answer 35

Mein Kampf

Question 36

what two things did Hitler use to spread public opinion to be elected to power

Answer 36

public speaking and propaganda

Question 37

name two of Hitler's promises he used to try win public approval

Answer 37

- strong leadership - reduce unemployment - cancel the Treaty of Versailles - the claim that only the Nazis could stop communists

Question 38

who was the German president

Answer 38

Paul von Hindenburg

Question 39

what year did the Nazi win the elections

Answer 39

1932

Question 40

name the four things that the Nazi suspended after the German parliament was set on fire

Answer 40

freedom of speech, press, assembly and association

Question 41

finish the sentence: between 1933-1939, the German Jewish population was harassed, stripped of its citizenship before being physically attacked-an event that signaled the beginning of the __.

Answer 41

Holocaust

Question 42

what year did Hitler openly defied the Treaty of Versailles by sending the German army into the Rhineland

Answer 42

1936

Question 43

finish the sentence: Nazi Germany annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia before invading Poland starting the __ __ __.

Answer 43

Second word war