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History
History(The rise of fascism in Germany)
Question | Answer |
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Who was Adolf Hitler? | The leader of the German Nazi Party |
Where and when was he born? | Austria, 1889 |
Who did Hitler hate? | Non-Germans- particularly Jews |
What was the Nazi Party? | The national socialist workers party |
Who were the November criminals? and why? | The Weimer Republic. Because they agreed ceasefire with the Allies |
Why was Hitler sentenced to five years in prison? | Because of his failed attempt to seize power in Munich in 1923 |
What did Hitler do whilst in prison? | Wrote a book. A Nazi philosophy. Mein Kampf (My Struggle |
Mention three things Hitler said he would do when he came to power in Germany? | Get rid of war guilt clause. Destroy the Jews. Get more Lebensraum for Germany. Tear up the Treat of Versailles and unite German with Austria |
Who were the SA or storm troopers? | Hitlers private army led by Ernst Rohm. Commonly knowing as the brownshirts |
What was the job of the brownshirts? | Protect Nazi meetings and break up meetings of opponents |
Who were the SS? | Hitlers private bodygaurd |
What was the Wall street Crash and when was it? | Bankruptcy in the US in 1929 |
Who did Hitler accuse of Germany's problems? | The delegates who signed the Treaty of Versailles. The Jews and communists. Weimer politicians. |
What is Reichstag? | German parliment |
What happened in January 1933? | Hitler became Chancellor of Germany(head of government) |
What was the Enabling act? and when was it set up? | The act that gave Hitler the power to rule by decree. February 1933 |
What was the Gestapo? | The secret police |
What was the Night of the long knives? | When Rohm critised Hitler and Hitler sent the Gestapo to murder Rohm. More than 400 people where murdered,this was in 30 June 1934 |
What was the Wehrmacht? | German Armed forces |
What did Hitler call himself? | Der Fuhrer(the leader) |
What was the Third Reich? | Empire |
What was the Hitler Youth Movement? | When Hitler decided to train children as committed Nazi's |
Whats was the League of German maidens? | Hitlers league that girls were enrolled in to be mothers of the soldiers of the Reich |
What does Volkswagen mean? | Peoples car |
What was Anti-Semitism? | Hatred of Jews |
What was the Night of the broken glass or Krystallnacht? | When Hitler ordered the Jews to pay compensation to state the damage done to their own property.( Even though the Nazi's did the damage) This was in November 19398 |
Name two places where there were concentration camps | Auschwitz and Dachau |
What was the final solution? | When Hitler announced to exterminate all Jews under German rule |
What was the Holocaust? | The murdering of 6 million Jews |
When the the Allies liberate concentration camps? | 1944 and 1945 |