Nazism

• Central powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire
• Allied powers were the USA, Britain(UK), France, and the USSR
• Axis powers were Germany, Italy and Japan (World war 2)
• President Hindenburg offered Hitler Chancellorship of Germany on January 30th 1933
• The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles which forced Germany to pay reparations to the allied countries.
• The supporters of Weimar republic, including republics, democrats and catholics were mockingly called November Criminals
• According to the constitution of Weimar Republic, women did not have right to vote
• What was Free Corps

  The weimar republic crushed the uprising of soviet style governance with the help of a war-veteran organisation called free corps.
• Ruhr was occupied by the french after they refused to pay reparations. It was the leading industrial area for coal production.
• The Americans bailed Germany out of the economic crisis by introducing the Dawes Plan.
• This is an image of a rally organised by the radical group called Spartacist League.

  
• On March 3rd 1933, the Enabling Act was passed which gave Hitler full power to pass laws without consulting parliament and establish dictatorship in Germany.

  All political parties and trade unions were banned except for the Nazi party and its affiliates.
• What powers did Article 48 provide to the President?

  Power to impose emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree
• Hitler was born in 1889 (year) in Austria. (place)
• Hitler joined the German Workers' Party in 1919. He took over and renamed it National Socialist German Workers' Party.
• Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to seize control of Bavaria.
• During the Great Depression Nazism became a mass movement
• The rally in the picture is called Nuremberg Rally, which was held every year as part of Nazi demonstrations to gain power.

  
• What were the promises made by Hitler in his speeches?(I think like 2-3 should be enough)

  Strong nation

  Undo the injustice of Versailles Treaty

  Restore dignity of Germans

  Employment

  secure future

  weed out foreign influence

  resist foreign conspiracies
• What were the terms of the Fire Decree? When was it passed?

  28 Febuary 1933

  It indefinitely suspended civic rights like freedom of speech, press and assembly that had been guaranteed by the Weimar Republic
• The Communists were Hitler's enemies.
• Hitler assigned responsibility of economic recovery to Hjalmar Schacht. He aimed at full production and employment through a state-funded work-creation programme.
• Such posters suggested that owning a car was:

  (a)A symbol of success and prosperity

  (b)no longer a dream for an ordinary worker.

  (c) finish this later pls

  
• What were Hitler's foreign policies?

  Pulled out of League of Nations in 1933

  Occupied Rhinesland in 1936

  Integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan "One people, One empire, and One leader."

  Took Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia and gobbled up the entire country
• Auschwitz was a major killing centre for concentration camps.
• The War Guilt Clause held Germany responsible for the war and damages the Allies suffered.
• After enrolling in the army, Hitler acted as a messenger in the front.
• Why was Hitler arrested

  He planned to seize control of Bavaria, march to Berlin and capture power. He failed, was arrested, tried for treason and later released.
• Under the Euthanasia Programme, Nazi officials had condemned to death many Germans who were considered physically or mentally unfit