The Rise of the NAZI Party Flashcards
(10 cards)
STATE the official name of the NAZI party
NSDAP, National Socialist Deutsch Arbeiters Party
IDENTIFY what caused a large division/polarisation in how people voted in 1929
The Stock Market Crash
IDENTIFY the highest percentage of the German vote that the NSDAP party got before 1933
less than 18%, so Hitler never really represented the people’s views
IDENTIFY why the NSDAP got all of the votes from 1933 onwards
Because there were no other parties to vote for
IDENTIFY where on the political spectrum the NAZI party sits
Extreme right wing
OUTLINE how Weimar Republic come into existence
Encouraged by German military leaders, Keiser Wilham abdicated the throne, and a Germany went from being a monarchy to a republic basically overnight
EXPLAIN why Germans were shocked that they had lost the war
German propaganda and censorship left people hearing that that Germany was winning the war, they had been told the entire time that they had not lost a single battle. This left people disillusioned and angry, vulnerable to the lies that said they had been stabbed in the back right when they were about to win.
IDENTIFY how Hitler first became involved in politics
He got an Auditing job for political parties, and came across the German Workers Party. Hitler bought into their rhetoric that they had been betrayed, stabbed in the back, by the stuffy politicians, and as some of them were Jewish, Jewish people became the scapegoats.
OUTLINE the Beer Hall Putsch and its outcome
Hitler gathered 2000 of his followers and attempted to stage a coup. It failed, and 16 NAZIs and 4 police officers were killed.
Hitler was arrested and charged with treason, but the trial was a farce, Hitler standing for hours and spewing his rhetoric.
He was placed under house arrest for a year, where he wrote ‘Mein Kampf’, ‘my struggle’, and decided that if he was going to get into power, he would have to do it the legal way.
IDENTIFY what the economic situation was at the time of the Beer Hall Putsch
Hyperinflation - Billions of gold marks could not buy you a single loaf of bread
