4.5 The Nazi State

Description

Leaving Cert History (Dictatorship and Democracy Flashcards) Flashcards on 4.5 The Nazi State, created by samstevenson2014 on 08/05/2015.
samstevenson2014
Flashcards by samstevenson2014, updated more than 1 year ago
samstevenson2014
Created by samstevenson2014 over 9 years ago
6
2

Resource summary

Question Answer
What paintings were destroyed? What did some Nazis secretly do? The paintings of masters like Picasso and Van Gogh Keep them for themselves
What did Albert Speer do? Designed huge buildings in classical style to celebrate Nazi triumph
How many boys were enrolled in the Hitler Youth by 1935? 3.5 million
What did the girls join? League of German Maidens
How were history books rewritten? In emphasis of the Nazi version of German history (anti-semitic)
Why did Hitler and the Nazis despise Christianity? It encouraged people to love one another
Why did the leaders of the main Christian churches accept Nazi rule? They feared communism more
What were German Protestants divided into? 28 different churches
What did they agree in 1933? What was it called? They agreed to unite into Nazi-controlled state Church Reichskirche
What was formed in 1934? What was this? The Confessional Church A church independent of Nazi control
Who formed it? Martin Niemöller and Karl Barth
What happened when they protested about anti-semitism? Gestapo arrested them and many other clergymen
Who returned to Germany from the US at the start of the war? Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Protestant theologian
What happened to him? Why? He was arrested and executed in 1943 He linked up with anti-nazi parties
What did the Vatican's 1933 treaty agree with Nazis? Because they could keep control of schools, Church agreed to keep out of politics
Who of note became concerned with Hitler's anti semitism? How did he attack it? Pope Pius XI His encyclical (letter), Mit Brennender Sorge (With Burning Anger)
Who was his successor when he died in 1939? How did he react to Nazi ruthlessness? Pius XII He did nothing as he feared it would have an effect on German Catholics
What did individual Catholics do? Protest and many were executed or sent to concentration camps
How many were unemployed when the Nazis came to power? 6 million
Who did Hitler appoint? A banker, Hjalmar Schacht as Finance Minister
How did Nazis create jobs? How did people enrol? Public works projects Labour Battalions
What was re-introduced in 1935? What did Hitler do to the German economy? Conscription He helped it greatly
What did Hitler believe Germany had to be to win the war? Self sufficient with food and raw materials
Who drew up a four year plan? Committee chaired by Herman Goering
What was Hitler's invasion of USSR in 1941 partly for? What did Albert Speer do? To gain oil and other raw materials Re-organised arms industry using slave labour and conquered countries' raw materials
What did this enable Germany to do? What did Nazi's achieve economically? Fight until 1945 Limited success based on high state spending
How many Jews were there in Germany 1933? About 500,000
What did Hitler claim? What began to happen in 1933? They were a threat to his master race Anti-semitism became official state policy and pressure on Jews gradually increased
Why did other countries not want Jews? They didn't want refugees during the Depression
What happened in November 1938? A French Jew assassinated a German official in Paris
What did this lead to? Nazi-led mobs attacking synagogues and vandalising Jewish shops
What were Jews forced to wear when they left the "ghettos"? Yellow Star of David
How many Jews were at the Germans' mercy after 1941? About 8 million
When was the final solution decided? 1942
Who else was killed in concentration camps? About 500,000 homosexuals, gypsies, and disabled people
When were the camps discovered? 1945 after the war ended
Show full summary Hide full summary

Similar

Weimar Revision
Tom Mitchell
Hitler and the Nazi Party (1919-23)
Adam Collinge
History of Medicine: Ancient Ideas
James McConnell
GCSE History – Social Impact of the Nazi State in 1945
Ben C
Conferences of the Cold War
Alina A
Bay of Pigs Invasion : April 1961
Alina A
The Berlin Crisis
Alina A
Using GoConqr to study History
Sarah Egan
Germany 1918-39
Cam Burke
History- Medicine through time key figures
gemma.bell
The Weimar Republic, 1919-1929
shann.w