Transcript Slide 1

1) What kind of leader did Hitler plan
to be?
Dictator!
2) Was Hitler President or Chancellor?
Who was the only man in Germany
more powerful than him?
Hitler = Chancellor
Hindenburg = President, i.e.
more powerful than Hitler!
3) What happened in February 1933?
The Reichstag Fire!
4) Which party was banned as a
result?
Communist Party
was banned
5) What was the Enabling Law?
This law gave Hitler the power to
pass laws without going through
the Reichstag (parliament) or the
President. This would place all
power in his hands!
6) What happened to all of Germany’s
trade unions in May 1933?
Trade Unions were banned and union
leaders were arrested.
6) Which Nazi-controlled organisation
replaced trade unions?
The German
Labour Front
(DAF)
7) What else was banned in 1933?
All
political
parties!
8) Who was the leader of the
SA/Brownshirts?
Rohm
9) What was the event when all the
leaders of the SA were murdered, and
in which year did it happen?
The Night of the Long
Knives!
1934
10) What did Hitler do when
Hindenburg died in 1934, and what
title beginning with “F” did he give
himself?
Hitler made himself President as well as
Chancellor
He called himself the Fuhrer (supreme
leader)
11) How did the army now show their
loyalty to Hitler?
The army took an oath of
personal loyalty to
Hitler.
Hitler was now Supreme
Commander
of the Armed Forces.
12) What was the name of Hitler’s
personal protection squad that was
about to get much more powerful?
The SS
(Schutzstaffel)
13) Give another name for the SS.
Blackshirts
14) Who was its leader?
Himmler
15) Name one of their key roles in Nazi
Germany.
Sent lots of people
the Nazis didn’t like
to concentration
camps
16) List 3 groups of people who were
sent to concentration camps.
Jewish people
The mentally ill or disabled
Homosexuals
17) What was the name of the secret
state police?
Gestapo
18) In what situation could they arrest
people?
Arrest people
without trial
19) Why did the opponents of the
Nazis never get a fair trial?
Because the
judges were Nazi!
20) Which other group of people did
the Nazis use to spy on people?
Informers
21) Who was in charge of propaganda
for the Nazis?
Goebbels
22) What is the word for the way in which
the Nazis controlled everything the
newspapers could and couldn’t say?
Censorship
23) Where did the Nazis hold their
main annual rally
Nuremberg
24) What kind of messages were they
trying to send out at these massive
rallies?
That the Nazis were all-powerful, in control and
they were going to make the future of
Germany great again.
They wanted to demonstrate that they could
bring ORDER out of chaos!
25) Which piece of new technology did
the Nazis exploit to spread their
message into most German homes?
Radio
26) By 1939 what proportion of
Germans owned this new technology?
70%
27) Give an example of a specific Nazi
propaganda film.
“The
Eternal
Jew”
28) Give one example of History being
written by the Nazis.
That Jews were to blame
for losing Germany
WWI
29) Which type of music did the Nazis
ban and why? [2]
Jazz, because it was “black
people’s music”
30) What was Germany’s key
economic problem in 1933?
Unemployment!
31) Name two things the Nazis did to
solve this.
1) Huge building programme – autobahns,
schools, hospitals, houses…
2) Removed Jews & women from the
unemployment register
32) How successful were their policies,
i.e. how many unemployed were there
by 1939?
None, the Nazis had
“solved”
unemployment
33) What is the word for forcing all
young men aged 18-25 to join the
army?
Conscription!
34) Which Treaty banned this?
Treaty of Versailles!!
35) What was the aim of the Office of
the Four Year Plan?
To make Germany ready
for war within 4 YEARS
36) Who was in charge of it?
Goering
37) One of his aims was to make
Germany self-sufficient. What does
this mean?
Making Germany
non-reliant on
imports
38) What question did he famously ask
the German people?
“Would you rather have
guns or butter?”
39) What is another term for
“persecution of the Jews?”
Holocaust
40) Even before the Nazis came to power
they were blaming the Jews for Germany’s
problems. Name one of the problems the
Nazis blamed them for.
The humiliating
Treaty of Versailles
41) Which anti-Jewish event did the
Nazis organise in 1933?
Burning of
Jewish books
42) What was the name of the antiJewish laws introduced in 1935?
Nuremberg Laws
"I am the greatest pig
in town - I have affairs
with Jews only."
43) Name two rights which these laws
of 1935 took away from Jews.
1. Jews and Aryans could not marry or have sexual
intercourse
2. Jews were deprived of their German citizenship (they
did not have “German blood”)
44) What happened on the “Night of
Broken Glass,” and when did it take
place?
Jewish homes, shops
and businesses were
attacked and destroyed,
leaving the streets
covered in smashed
windows. Afterwards
lots of Jews were taken to
Concentration camps.
NOVEMBER 1938
45) What was the so-called “Final
Solution,” and when did the Nazis
decide on it?
Final Solution = the decision
to exterminate the Jewish
race
1942
46) The Nazis tried to brainwash
young people into supporting them
– what is another word for
brainwashing?
Indoctrination
47) What was the name of the Nazi Youth
organisation?
Hitler Youth
48) In which year was membership made
compulsory, i.e. were all young people
forced to join this?
1935
49) List two different activities boys did in
the Hitler Youth, and explain why they
did them. [2]
1. Jump out of a first floor window
wearing full combat gear. This would
train them for the dangerous
activities in the army
2. Listen to Nazi ideas. This would help
them to become indoctrinated with
Nazi ideals.
50) What was the equivalent of the Hitler
Youth for girls?
League of
German
Maidens
51) List two different activities girls did in
this organisation, and explain why they
did them. [2]
• Learn how to cook. This would help them
to become good Aryan housewives to their
husbands.
• Encouraged to have babies. This would help
them produce a new generation of Aryans
that Hitler could put in his army.
52) Schools were also important to the
Nazis. What did teachers have to do if
they wanted to carry on teaching?
• Teachers had to agree to teach
the Nazi ideas otherwise they
were sacked
53) Give an example of how lessons
changed under the Nazis.
In Biology students were
taught the ideas of Nazi
racial policy. For example,
the idea of Aryan
superiority.
54) Name two groups of young people that
opposed the Nazis.
1.The White Rose
2.The Edelweiss Pirates
55) Which 3 Ks sum up Nazi policies
towards women, and what do they mean
in English? [2]
•Kinder, Kirche, Kuche
•Children, Church, Cooking
56) Which of all the above was a
woman’s most important job according
to the Nazis?
Having lots of healthy Aryan children
57) Why were boys needed in particular by
Germany?
To become a new generation of soldiers for
Hitler’s army
58) Name one scheme the government
introduced to encourage more
marriages.
• Marriage loans.
• The more children they had, the less they had
to pay back
59) Explain how the medal system worked
for mothers.
Medals were awarded for having children.
Gold for eight, silver for six, bronze for four.
60) What were Mothers’ Schools?
Places where women
were trained how to
be a good Nazi
mother.
61) What did the Nazis tell childless
couples to do?
They were
encouraged to
divorce
62) What happened to women doctors,
civil servants and teachers in Nazi
Germany?
They were sacked
and replaced by
men
63) How were women supposed to look in
Nazi Germany?
• They had to wear simple clothes. No trousers,
dyed hair or high heels were allowed. Make
up was frowned upon.
• They needed to be strong and solid to have
lots of children.
64) What had the Nazis banned in 1933
to make sure there was very little
opposition? [2]
1.Other political
parties
2.Trade Unions
65) Where were people sent if they
criticised the Nazis?
Concentration
Camps
66) What proportion of Communist party
members were arrested by the Nazis?
Two thirds
67) What was the name of the Nazi
Church that was set up?
Reich Church
68) What event in 1938 did the Church
not criticise?
• Reichskristallnacht
• The Night of Broken Glass
69) Name one famous priest who did
have the courage to speak out against
the Nazis
Dietrich
Bonhoffer
70) Which event in 1934 meant that the
army was very grateful to Hitler?
The Night of the Long knives.
• This was when Hitler eliminated opposition
from the SA.
71) In which year was there a famous army
bomb plot to murder Hitler?
1944
(July)
72) Why was opposition from young
people so worrying to the Nazis?
Because they were the most
important generation to Hitler.
He wanted them to continue his
Reich by being soldiers and
mothers.
73) What was the full name of this
opposition group – ‘the ________
Pirates’?
Edelweiss
74) What kind of things did they do to
oppose the Nazis? [2]
•Avoided Hitler Youth
meetings and had fun.
•They listened to American
music and wore fashionable
clothes
75) What did one group of them do in
Cologne in 1944?
Killed a Hitler
Youth leader.
(They were hanged in revenge.)
76) What was the name of the student
opposition group in Munich?
The White Rose
(They spread anti-Nazi messages through
leaflets, posters and graffiti.)