The creation of a Dictatorship

Question 1

Why was Hilter’s power limited in January 1933?

Answer 1

• Weimar Constitution controlled what the Chancellor could do
• Hitler’s cabinet only had 2 NSDAP members
• NSDAP members were only 1/3 of the Reichstag

Question 2

Who was guilty of the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 2

Marinus van der Lubbe

Question 3

What party was Marins van Der Lobby part of?

Answer 3

communist

Question 4

What happened to van Der Lubbe?

Answer 4

execution

Question 5

How many communists were arrested on the night go the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 5

4,000

Question 6

What did Hitler do before the election of March 1933?

Answer 6

• issued the Decree of Protection of the People and the State- gave him power to imprison political opponents and ban communist newspapers
• persuades industrialists to bankroll the Nazi campaign

Question 7

What did Hitler use his emergency powers for?

Answer 7

banning the communist party

Question 8

What was the Enabling Act?

Answer 8

destroy the power of the Reichstag

Question 9

What did the Enabling Act state?

Answer 9

• Reich cabinet could pass new laws
• laws could overrule the constitution of the Weimar Republic
• laws would be proposed by the Chancellor

Question 10

What was the significance of the Enabling Act?

Answer 10

marked the end of the Weimar Constitution

Question 11

What did Hitler do to remove trade unions?

Answer 11

• broke into trade union offices and arrested trade union official
• used his new powers to ban trade unions

Question 12

What did Hitler do to remove his political opposition?

Answer 12

Nazi stormtroopers entered the offices of the SPD and KPD and destroyed their newspapers and confiscated all their funds

• issued a decree to make all political parties illegal

Question 13

How did Hitler remove the local government?

Answer 13

abolished the Lander parliaments

Question 14

Why was Ernst Rohm seen as a threat to Hitler?

Answer 14

leader of 3 million SA members
60% were unemployed and were loyal to Rohm
opposed Hitler’s nationalist views, wanted more socialist policies

Question 15

What did German army officer believe about Rohm?

Answer 15

believed Rohm wanted to replace the German army with the SA

Question 16

Why did Himmler and Heydrich want to reduce the power of the SA?

Answer 16

to increase thrown power and status of the SS

Question 17

Describe the events of the Night of the Long Knives

Answer 17

Hitler arranged a meeting with Rohm and 100 other SA leaders, when they arrived they were arrested, shot and imprisoned

Question 18

What year did Hindenburg die?

Answer 18

1934

Question 19

What did Hitler declare himself as after the death of Hindenburg?

Answer 19

Germany’s leader