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4.2 The rise of Hitler
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- 1What year did Hitler join the German army?1914
- 2Where did he go in 1918 after the war? What did he become there?Munich to join a small right-wing party
He quickly became their Führer - 3What did he rename them? What uniform?National Socialist German Workers' Party
(Nazis)
Brown shirts - 4What was the private army called?Storm Troopers (SA) led by Ernst Röhm
- 5When did Hitler try to seize power in Munich? Did he?1923 during great inflation
No, the Nazis were defeated by the army - 6What did the Mein Kampf show?Hitler's hatred for Jews, communists, democrats and the Versailles Treaty
- 7What 3 plans were revealed in Mein Kampf?Destroying the Versailles Treaty
Uniting all Germans into a great Third Reich (empire)
Conquering Slav lands in Eastern Europe
(Lebensraum) - 8What had happened by the time Hitler was released from prison in 1925?Mussolini had destroyed democracy from within
- 9What did Hitler set up?An elite group, the SS (Schutzstaffel) to act as his bodyguard
- 10Who led it?Heinrich Himmler
- 11How many seats did the Nazis win in the general election 1928?12 out of 608 due to improved economic condition
- 12How did Hitler get nation-wide publicity?His campaign against the Young Plan in which Germany agreed to pay reduced reparations
- 13What did the Great Depression convince Germans?Democracy had failed to protect them
- 14How many votes did the Nazi Party get in the 1930 election? How many did communists get?5 million
Communists got 1 million - 15Who was Brüning?the Chancellor who wanted to cut wages and government spending on welfare
- 16What did Hitler do?Tour the country attacking Brüning, offering simple explanations for the Depression
- 17What did he claim would solve problems and restore German self-respect and power?"Strong government"
- 18Who did SS and SA thugs beat up at meetings?Opponents and communist "Red guards"
- 19Which three 1932 elections helped Hitler gain power?March election against Hindenburg
July general election
November general election - 20What percent of votes did Nazis get in March?37%
- 21How many seats did Nazis win in July? Communists?230 out of 608
89 out of 608 - 22Why was there another general election in November?No coalition government was formed between anti-democratic and democratic governments
- 23How many seats did the Nazis win in November?Only 186 seats because some people deserted them
- 24Who was von Papen?A German diplomat
- 25Why did he persuade Hindenburg to let Hitler become Chancellor?He felt he could control Hitler
- 26How many Nazis were made Ministers? What position did one of them have?Only two
In charge of police, who enrolled SS and SA in the police force - 27What did Hitler do in March? What could the SS and SA do?Called another election
Intimidate and attack communists and socialists - 28What percentage of the votes did the Nazis get?Only 44% despite intimidation and violence
- 29What did Hitler do?Asked Reichstag to pass Enabling Act
- 30What did this do?Declared Germany was in danger giving government special emergency powers to save it
- 31Who was the only party who did not vote for it?Social Democrats
- 32What did this mean?The Weimar democracy fell
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- Leaving Cert History (Dictatorship and Democracy Flashcards) FlashCards sobre 4.2 The rise of Hitler, criado por samstevenson2014 em 04-05-2015.
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