Weimar and Nazi Germany

Question 1

Explain why there were political problems in the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1923.

Answer 1

The Spartacist Uprising
The Treaty of Versailles.
The Kapp Putsch
Munich Putsch

Question 2

Explain why there were economic problems in the Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1923.

Answer 2

Reparations
The French occupation of the Ruhr
Germany lost most of its industry (19% coal, 48% iron)

Question 3

Explain why the Weimar Republic recovered in the years 1924-1929.

Answer 3

Bought in Rentenmark
The Dawes Plan (200m loan)
The Young plan (Reduced reparations)

Question 4

Explain why 1924-1929 was a golden age in the Weimar Republic.

Answer 4

Women (They got the vote and a lot of freedom)
Culture (Theatre, cinema, art, architecture)
Standard of living (Wage increase, pensions)

Question 5

Explain why Hitler carried out the Munich Putsch.

Answer 5

French occupation of the Ruhr (Calling of resistance)
Hitler assumed the German people would support his Putsch (Because of bad state)
He wanted to copy Musselini

Question 6

Explain why the Munich Putsch failed.

Answer 6

There was a shootout where 14 Nazis died
The lack of support from the police
The Germany army (He thought they would support him)

Question 7

Explain why there was increased support for the Nazis in the years 1929-1932

Answer 7

Unemployment
The great depression
Joseph Goebells

Question 8

Explain why Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933.

Answer 8

Hindenburg and Von Papen
The Great depression
Increased support

Question 9

Explain why the Nazi police state was successful between 1933 and 1939.

Answer 9

The gestapo
SA and SS
Concentration camps.

Question 10

Explain why Hitler was able to increase his control over Germany between 1933 and 1939.

Answer 10

The Enabling Act.
Nazi Propaganda
Banning all other parties

Question 11

Explain why unemployment fell in Germany between 1933 and 1939.

Answer 11

National Labour Service (RAD).
Not counting Nazi undesirables
Rearmament

Question 12

Explain why the Nazis tried to control the Church in Germany.

Answer 12

Less easily brainwashed by Nazism
Roman Catholic Church (The pope didn’t like Hitler
A challenge to the propaganda notion of the Fuhrerprinzip

Question 13

Explain why sport changed under the Nazis in the years 1933-39.

Answer 13

Promotion of militaristic sports
Healthy nation.
Racial beliefs

Question 14

Explain why Hitler Youth had only mixed success among the young German people.

Answer 14

Comradeship
Compulsory membership
Not everyone liked the Nazi ideals

Question 15

Explain why there was a great reduction in unemployment in the years 1933-1939

Answer 15

Rearmament.
The Reich Labour Service.
Not counting Nazi undesirables

Question 16

Explain why there were changes to the lives of Jewish people in Nazi Germany in the years 1933-1939.

Answer 16

The Nuremburg Laws, 1935
Kristallnacht, 1938
Segregation in schools

Question 17

Explain why the lives of women changed in Nazi German, 1933-1939.

Answer 17

The ‘Three Ks’ (Kids, kitchen church)
Women in employment (trying to get them out of jobs)
Encouragement to have kids