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4.3 Nazi State: Setting up a Dictatorship
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- 1What did the Enabling Act allow?Press and radio Nazi propaganda
- 2What were trade unions replaced by?Nazi-controlled 'labour front' that fixed wages and working conditions
- 3What was the secret police called?The Gestapo
- 4Who were sent to concentration camps?Thousands of communists, socialists and anti-Nazi Germans
- 5Who controlled concentration camps?Heinrich Himmler and the SS
- 6What did Himmler do in 1934?Take control of the Gestapo
- 7Who began to criticise Hitler after he didn't change very much in the economy?Ernst Röhm
- 8What else did he boast?The SA (two million men) would replace German army
- 9Why did this worry Hitler?He needed army support to stay in power and he feared Ernst Röhm was getting too powerful
- 10Who did Hitler make a deal with and to do what?SS to eliminate Ernst Röhm and the SA
- 11When did the Night of the Long Knives occur?30 June 1934
- 12Who did Gestapo kill?Ernst Röhm and 400 leading SA men and other potential threats
- 13Who died in August 1934?President Hindenburg
- 14What did Hitler then do?Combine offices of President and Chancellor into Führer
- 15What did all soldiers have to do after that?Take oath of loyalty to Der Führer
- 16What kind of state was Nazi Germany?Totalitarian state
- 17Who spied on everyone?Gestapo and the SS
- 18Who replaced Elected councils?Nazi officials
- 19What was the problem with Nazi officials?They were too afraid to make decisions or got away with corruption that people couldn't expose
- 20What could this have done?Destroyed Germany
- 21Why didn't it?The Nazi regime didn't last long enough
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- Leaving Cert History (Dictatorship and Democracy Flashcards) Flashcards on 4.3 Nazi State: Setting up a Dictatorship, created by samstevenson2014 on 04/05/2015.
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