The Rise Of Nazi Germany

Question 1

Define stock market

Answer 1

A place where people buy and sell shares in big businesses

Question 2

Define the great depression

Answer 2

A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic collapse and mass unemployment

Question 3

Define inflation

Answer 3

An increase in the price of goods

Question 4

What did the American government do for the Weimar government

Answer 4

Lent money to them to help the German economy to recover after WW1

Question 5

Where was the American stock market

Answer 5

In New York

Question 6

Where Is the new York stock market situated

Answer 6

Wall Street

Question 7

When did the Wallstreet stock market collapse

Answer 7

1929

Question 8

What did the stock market crashing mean

Answer 8

The stocks that people had bought on the stock market, no longer had any value

Question 9

How was Germany affected by the great depression

Answer 9

Blanks closed
Factories closed
Workers lost their Jobs
Inflation rose

Question 10

Read through pg 111

Question 11

Define reichstag

Answer 11

German word for parliament

Question 12

Define Chancellor

Answer 12

Another word for the leader of the reichstag

Question 13

Define authoritarian

Answer 13

Strict, dictatorial, people have no freedom or say in how government rules, opposite of democracy

Question 14

Who was allowed to vote for Germany in the New government

Answer 14

People over the age of 20 had the vote

Question 15

How did the election work

Answer 15

There were separate elections for the for the reichstag(parliament) and for the head of state, the president.

Question 16

What was the leader of the reichstag called

Answer 16

Chancellor

Question 17

Define propaganda

Answer 17

Biased information

Question 18

Define dictator

Answer 18

A leader with total power

Question 19

Define Der fuhrer

Answer 19

German words for “the leader”

Question 20

Define Reich

Answer 20

The German state

Question 21

Define fatherland

Answer 21

What the Germans called their state under the nazis

Question 22

Concentration camp

Answer 22

Those imprisoned were physically “concentrated” in one place

Question 23

Define scapegoat

Answer 23

Someone who is blamed and punished for the misfortune of others

Question 24

Define holocaust

Answer 24

The mass killing of the Jews in nazi Germany

Question 25

Define Jehovah's witnesses

Answer 25

A Christian religious group

Question 26

Define persecuted

Answer 26

Made to suffer

Question 27

Define Roma

Answer 27

People who speak Romany and who move around in search of work; sometimes called gypsies

Question 28

Define slavs

Answer 28

People of eastern Europe

Question 29

Define fascist

Answer 29

A political theory that the government should have complete control

Question 30

Define lebensraum

Answer 30

A German word meaning space to live in

Question 31

Define mein kampf

Answer 31

Book by hitler explaining his political views

Question 32

Define genocide

Answer 32

Mass murder

Question 33

Define extermination

Answer 33

Killing

Question 34

Define annihilate

Answer 34

Cease to exist, wipe out completely

Question 35

Define einsatzgruppen

Answer 35

Death squads

Question 36

Define "final solution"

Answer 36

The name for nazi germany's plan for the systematic killing of European jews

Question 37

Why did the Weimar government fail

Answer 37

Germany did not have a history of democracy. It had been ruled by a kaiser and Germany was used to authoritarian leadership. The system of democracy was not fully supported by many judges, the powerful military and big business. There were many political parties in Germany. No party could win a complete majority of seats in the reichstag. This meant that the Weimar Republic did not have a strong enough government to deal with Germany's problems

Question 38

When were the elections in Germany

Answer 38

1932-1933

Question 39

What did the nazi party bame the Weimar government for

Answer 39

The severe punishments and humiliation of the treaty of Versailles. They believed Germany was not really defeated, and that the German people had been stabed in the back by the weimer government

Question 40

Why did publi support increase for the nazi party

Answer 40

Many Germans wanted to return to being an important world power. Hitler's nazi party received financial support from some in the military, and from earthy businessmen Hiter was a brilliant public speaker. He could hold many peoples attention The nazi party was very organized. The nazi propaganda led people to believe that the nazi party could save them from their troubles

Question 41

When was the enabling act

Answer 41

1933

Question 42

What did the enabling act do

Answer 42

Gave complete power to hitler and the nazi party. The nazi party became the only political party allowed to exist in Germany

Question 43

Who was president at this time

Answer 43

Von hindenburg

Question 44

Who signed the enabling act into law

Answer 44

Von hindenhurg

Question 45

When did von hindenburg die

Answer 45

1934

Question 46

What positions did hitler combine

Answer 46

Chancellor and president

Question 47

Why were concentration camps created

Answer 47

To house political opponents. In 1933 there were mass arrests of political opponents. There were soon so many people I jail that Germany's prisons became overcrowded

Question 48

Where was the first concentration camp

Answer 48

Dachau

Question 49

Describe what dachau looked like

Answer 49

A arge barbed wore enclosure where prisoners had to do hard abour and military drills and got regular beatings

Question 50

When were the Nuremberg laws

Answer 50

1935

Question 51

Define Aryan

Answer 51

The pure German race

Question 52

How did propaganda lead to the holocaust

Answer 52

After years of being told that jews were evil, it became easier for Germans to accept in 1935 what they would have rejected in 1920

Question 53

What did jews have to wear

Answer 53

Yellow star of David

Question 54

What did political opponents wear

Answer 54

Red triangles

Question 55

What did jehovah's witnesses wear

Answer 55

Purple triangle

Question 56

What did homosexuals wear

Answer 56

Pink traingle

Question 57

What did Roma wear

Answer 57

Brown triangle

Question 58

What did criminals wear

Answer 58

A green triangle

Question 59

Read through features of fascism on pg 116