History - Nazi

Cards (78)

  • What was the SS(Schutzstaffel) responsible for?
    They were responsible for ensuring the population remained under control and any potential threats to the Nazis were dealt with.
  • What actions did the SS carry out?
    They ran concentration camps and they overssaw the Gestapo
  • What was one of the gamechanging weapons that Hitler had control of
    The legal system as all judges had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Führer
  • What association did Hitler create for lawyers?
    The Nazi Lawyer's Association
  • Three ways that the Nazis used which controlled Germans
    -The SS
    -Control over the legal system
    -Propaganda
  • Who ran the Ministry of Propaganda
    Joseph Goebbels
  • How did Hitler achieve full employment
    Using rearmament (increasing army size)
  • What was given to workers when they took part in the Nazi Party schemes
    cheap holidays
  • What did the Nazis aspire to achieve economically
    Autarky meaning they would live off their own resources
  • Why did the Nazis fail to achieve autarky
    the economy was preparing for a future war
  • Which two groups did the Nazis' social policies affect the most
    Women and the youth
  • What are the 3 Ks and what do they represent
    Kinder(Children)
    Küche(Kitchen)
    Kirche(Church)
    -It shows the areas as to which they were expected ti embrace their lives around
  • What was the 'duty' of women?
    to produce and raise children
  • What were women encourage to do
    To give up work and they would receive loans and awards for having many kids
  • How did the Nazis spread Nazism to the youth?

    They altered the school curriculum which would teach them about the Nazi ideology and all young people were expected to join a youth organisation
  • What did Nazis try to limit
    the influence of Christianity
  • What was the Confessing Church
    An official state church which adapted the protestant teachings to Nazi ideology
  • Why was signing a concordat with the Pope useless
    Hitler had promised to leave the Catholic Church alone if it stayed out of politics but the Nazis and Hitler still tried to infiltrate it and placed reservations on worship
  • Which race did the Nazis believe was superior to all
    the Aryan race
  • How many Jews died during the Holocaust
    6 million
  • What problems did WW2 bring?
    Rationing
    Bombing Raids
    Labour Shortages
  • What year did army officers try to assassinate Hitler?
    1944
  • Who and when was the Nazi Party founded
    Anton Drexler founded it in 1919
  • What type of views did the NSDAP have
    Nationalist views
  • When did Hitler become chairman of the NazI Party
    1921
  • When and what is the Dawes Plan?
    It was in 1924 and it was an international agreement that helped to restructure Germany's reparations payments and provided loans from the USA
  • What did the loans help with
    funding for their reparations which prevented the German industry from collapsing
  • What event was prevented by the loans given by the USA
    Hyperinflation
  • What had began once the German industry collapsed
    The Great Depression
  • How much did employment rise by between the winer of 1929-30
    by over 600,000
  • Germany's events which led to their their Great Depression
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  • When was the Munich Beer Hall Putsch
    8th November 1923
  • Why did the Beer Hall Putsch fail?
    16 Nazis had been killed and Hitler had been arrested after being founded guilty of treason and was sentenced to 5 years in prison
  • What book did he write in prison?
    Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
  • How did Hitler gain support whilst in prison?
    He wrote the book 'Mein Kampf' which had included his main political ideas
  • When was the Nazi Party relaunched
    1925
  • How did the Nazis plan to take power
    by destroying the Weimar Republic
  • When was Hitler appointed Chancellor
    30th January 1933
  • Factors that helped the Nazis rule Germany
    -Hitler's leadership skills and chracter
    -his ability to execute public speaking
    -appeal of Nazi policies
    -Role of the SA
    -Propaganda
    -Impact of the Great Depression
    -Fear of communism
  • What is the meaning of lebensraum
    Living space