Unit 1

• When did Hilter become chancellor?

  30th January 1933
• Why wasnt Hitler originally the most powerful?

  • President Hindenburg still had ultimate power
  • The Reichstag still had to approve laws before they were passed
• What was Hitlers main opposition (in politics)?

  • Communists (Marxism)
  • socialists
• What were the Nazis main aims?

  1. Subdue the Jewish
  2. Gain Lebensraum
  3. scrap the treaty of versailles
  4. Brot Und Arbeit
  5. Nationlisation for industries
  6. Ensure Aryan supremacy
  7. improve education
• What are Ubermenschen?


  Superior humans in the eyes of the Nazis
• What are untermenschen?


  inferior humans such as Jews, and the Gays
• What is lebensraum?


  Living space.
• What is "Brot Und Arbeit"?


  "work and bread" a nazi policy that was popular amongst the citizens after the great depression
• What happened on the 27th February 1933?


  The Reichstag Fire, the Reichstag was burnt down. Marinus Van Der Lubbe was blamed for this.
• Why was the Reichstag fire so contraversial?

  • Van Der Lubbe was a dutch communist
  • the evidence by the Nazis was questionable, and was belived to be used to frame communists
  • this was most likley done to pass the reichstag fire decree and decrease communist trust in Germany
• what was the Reichstag fire decree?

  • 4000 communists arrested
  • allowed the civil service act to be passed
  • increased gov power
• How did hitler pass the enabling act?

  • used the SA to intimmidate other political parties
  • Used the SA and SS to intimmidate the general public