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Rise of the Nazis Flashcards

1
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When Hitler bacame chancellor, how many Nazis were in his Cabinet?

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2, Hermann Goering and Wilhelm Frick

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Which event took place on the 27th February 1933?

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Reichstag fire

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Which communist was blamed for the fire?

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Marinus van de Lubbe

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What did Hitler issue in March 1933 that destroyed the power of the reichstag?

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The enabling act

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5
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After the Communist party was banned, how may votes did the Nazis get?

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444, compared to 94 from the oppsition

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6
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Which group was immediatly suppressed by Hitler after his rise to power?

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Unions, Opposition parties and local governments

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7
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Which leader was a threat to Hitler in 1934?

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Ernst Rohm

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8
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Which verteran army group merged with the SA to take its membership to 3 million?

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The Stahlhelm

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What name was given to the event where SA officials were rounded up and shot?

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The night of the long knives

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10
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What did Hitler proclaim himself to be after claiming power?

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Fuhrer

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11
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Who was in charge of the SS?

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Heidrich Himmler

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12
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Who was placed in charge of the Gestapo?

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Reinhart Heydrich

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13
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How many people were in ‘protective prisons’ by 1939?

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150,000

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14
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What was the name of the first concentration camp?

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Dachau

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15
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How many people were exectued from 1934-39

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534

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16
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What was the name given to the agreement between the Pope and Hitler?

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The Reichskonkordant

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17
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Who was the first leader of the Nazi church?

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Ludwig Muller

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18
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Which organisation did Nemoller set up to campaign against the Nazis?

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The Pastor’s emergent league

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19
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What term is used to signify a country with only one leader/ruling party, with no opposition?

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Totalitarian state

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20
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What does propaganda do?

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Manipulate opinions or create new ones

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21
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Who was the propaganda minister of Nazi Germany?

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Joseph Goebbels

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22
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How many newspapers were banned in 1935?

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1500

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23
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What percentage of houses had a ‘people’s radio’?

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70%

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24
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What was held each year to show support for the Nazis?

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The Nuremburg rallies

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25
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Which event was held in 1936 to show the power of the Aryan race?

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The 1936 berlin olympics

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26
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What role did the chamber of culture do to cultural activities to ensure Nazi ideals?

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Gleichschanltung

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27
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In may 1933 how many books were burnt, that were written by Jews?

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20,000

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28
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How many films were released by the Nazi parti?

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1300

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29
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In which anti communist film showed a young member of the nazi party being killed by communists?

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Hitlerjunge Quex

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30
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What did the PEL set up in 1934?

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The Confessing Church

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31
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How many times more members did the Confessing church have than the Reich church?

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3 times more members than the Reich church

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32
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How many protestan pastors were in concentration camps?

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800

33
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How many catholic priests were in the priest’s block at Dachau?

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400

34
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Which working class opposition group opposed the Hitler youth?

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The Edelweiss pirates

35
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How did they oppose the Nazis?

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By attacking them or taunting them

36
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Which middle class opposition group was created soon after the Edelweiss pirates?

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Swing Youth

37
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How many swing youth members attended illegal Louis armstrong dances?

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6,000

38
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Who was appointed Women’s Reich leader in 1934?

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Gertrud Scholtz- Klink

39
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What did she insist all women’s organisations join?

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Deutches Frauenwerk

40
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How many members did the DFW get?

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6 million

41
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What was offered to young couples to encourage them to marry, in 1933?

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A 1,000 mark loan, equivalent to 8 months wages

42
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How many children did a woman need to have to earn a Golden cross of honour for the German mother?

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8 for gold, 6 for silver, 4 for bronze.

43
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What did Himmler set up in 1935?

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The lebensborn programme

44
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What type of child did the Lebensborn programme promote?

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Genetically pure ideally Aryan children

45
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How many children were born from one Lebensborn home from 1938 to 1941?

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540

46
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By the end of 1934, how many women had given up work?

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360,000

47
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How many women were back working in 1939?

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7 million

48
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What did Hitler believe children would allow him to create?

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A Thousand Year Reich

49
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How many members did Nazi youth groups have in 1932?

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100,000

50
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What had this risen to by 1939?

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8 million

51
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What was the name for the boys youth group?

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Hitlerjugend

52
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What were its primary aims?

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To capture the minds of children, to educate them in Nazi ideals, and to prepare them to be soliders

53
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What was the female equivalent of this group?

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League of German Maidens

54
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What were the girls taught to secure racial purity?

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Racial hygiene

55
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Which subject taught about how different races were superior?

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Race studies

56
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Which lesson was given double the curriculum space

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PE

57
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Which book was made compulsory in school?

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Mein Kampf

58
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What percentage of the population was unemployed in 1933

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25%

59
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Which program was set up to solve this?

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RAD

60
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How many workers did RAD have in 1935?

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422,000

61
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What did Hitler send 125,000 men to do in 1935?

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Build the autobahns

62
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How much was military spending in 1939?

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26 billion marks

63
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What was set up to remove trade unions?

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the DAF

64
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What was promised through the strength through joy movement for 5 marks a week

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A Volkswagen beetle, the people’s car

65
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What did the beauty of labour campaign get?

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Better working facilities

66
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What is the term used to describe selective breeding?

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Eugenics

67
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Which race did the Nazis consider to be superior?

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The Aryan race

68
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What were the Jews considered to be?

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Lebensunwertes Leben

69
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What term refers to the persecution of the Jews?

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Anti-Semitism

70
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Which programme was responsible for the deaths of 5,000 disabled children?

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Aktion T4

71
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Under the Nuremburg laws, what did Jews lose?

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Citizenship and rights to marriage

72
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What happened on the 9th of November 1938?

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Kristallnacht ( the night of broken glass)

73
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How many Jews were killed during krystalnacht?

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100

74
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How Many Jews were sent to concentration camps?

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20,000

75
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What was the purpose of the Reich office for emigration, set up by Heydrich in 1939?

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To deport all the Jews from Germany

76
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Who was appointed economics minister in 1937?

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Hermann Goring

77
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Which organisation controled the police state?

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The SS

78
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When were the Nuremburg laws passed?

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1935

79
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What was the name of the conference that devised the ‘Final solution to the Jewish question’?

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Wannsee

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