nazi germany

• who was the nazi party leader by 1919?

  adolf hitler
• who was chancellor of germany in 1921?

  gustav stresemann
• what ended the golden years in germany?

  the wall street crash
• What was the name of the act that allowed Hitler to pass any law he wanted?

  Enabling Act
• What was the name of the night where over 1000 Jewish Synagogues were burned?

  Kristallnacht
• When was the Enabling Act passed?

  march 24th 1933
• who is in charge of nazi propaganda?

  joeseph gobbels
• What is the German name for the secret state police?

  Gestapo
• Who ran the Gestapo?

  Heinrich Himmler
• What is the name of this famous German concentration camp?

  Auschwitz
• Which country was Adolf Hitler born in?

  Austria
• Who was the leader of the SA before Hitler killed him?

  Ernst Röhm
• What is the name of the book that Hitler wrote while he served in Landsberg prison?

  Mein Kampf
• what was mein kampf about?

  Hitler's ideology.
• What was the name of the treaty that the Germans had to sign that left Germany bitter?

  Treaty of Versailles
• What did Gustav Stresemann do to stop/counter the hyperinflation in Germany?


  Introduced new currency (Rentenmark)
• What was the name for Hitler's failed attempt in 1923 nicknamed the "Beer Hall Putsch"?

  munich putsch
• Why did some Germans already dislike Jews before Hitler was known about?

  They believed Jews were greedy due to their success in Germany
• What was the name of the democracy that ruled Germany from 1918?

  Weimar Republic
• Why did Hitler assassinate Ernst Rohm?

  Because he was a threat to Hitler
• When did Hitler commit suicide?

  30th April 1945
• What is the Luftwaffe?

  German air force
• What was the start date of the Night of the Long Knives?

  June 30, 1934
• When was the start date of the Night of Broken Glass?


  November 9, 1938
• When was the Reichstag Fire?

  febuary 27th 1933
• What year did Hitler take power?

  1933
• Who did Hitler blame the Reichstag fire on?

  Van der Lubbe
• What did Hitler use to run his, 'Terror State'?

  • the ss
  • concentration camps
  • the gestapo
• What youth group opposed Hitler?

  The White Rose.
• dolchstosslegende?

  the stab in the back legend
• Voluntary armies in Germany. After World War I the term was used for paramilitary units?

  Freikorps
• deutschland?

  germany
• Junkers?

  The land-owning aristocracy of Prussia who were heavily represented in German government and military command.
• Putsch?

  German term for a military or paramilitary coup; an attempt to overthrow and replace a government.
• Reichstag?

  The German national assembly, formed in 1919.
• Diktat?

  An order or decree imposed by someone in power without popular consent.
• Reichswehr?


  The German armed forces from 1919 to 1935.
• Rentenmark?

  A temporary German monetary unit used for banknotes issued in 1923 to stabilize currency
• Alte Kampfer?

  The highest-ranking NSDAP member in the newly-reorganised German states.
• Lebensraum?

  The theory, held by Hitler and other Nazis, that the German-speaking Aryan people of Europe needed more territory to survive and prosper. This land was to be seized from eastern European countries occupied by 'lesser races'.