history exam

• Totalitarianism and the rise of the Nazis

  1923: Weimar Republic unable to repay France

  ➢ French Army occupies Ruhr

  o Hyper-inflation in Weimar Republic

  o Munich Beer Hall Putsch

  o Hitler and other Nazis arrested

  ▪ Hitler writes “Mein Kampf” (book)
• 1924-1929: Weimar Republic’s recovery

  ➢ Borrowing money ($) from U.S.
• 1929: Wall Street Crash followed by Great Depression in the 1930s

  1933: Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  ➢ February - Reichstag set on fire

  o Communists blamed

  o Communist Party suppressed

  ➢ March – Enabling Act

  o Hitler has full executive and legislative power

  ➢ October – Germany leaves League of Nations
• Police state – Organisations

  The elimination of the SA and its leadership led to the emergence of the SS as one of the more powerful bodies of the Nazi Party: they would work alongside the SD and the Gestapo and other minor groups in controlling the German population.
• the gestapo

  
• the ss

  
• concentration camps

  
• The Legal System

  
• the sd

  
• local control

  
• * By late 1920s, large unemployment in Germany – Sturm Abteilung (SA) created by NSDAP. gives men purpose and responsibilities. Known as the ‘Brownshirts’ under the leadership of former army officers such as Ernst Röhm. They were involved in beating up political opponents and enforced informal Nazi laws like boycotting Jewish shops and when in

  parliament (Reichstag) they would harass non-Nazi speakers. Hated by the

  ** purge: to clean out

  *** arbitrary: Random; inconsistent
• workers in Nazi Germany

  
• strengths through joy

  
• beauty of labour

  
• advantages and disadvantages

  
• what is a totalitarian state?


  a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens
• what is social?


  has to do with people and the society
• what is economic ?

  has to do with the economy of the country
• what is political ?

  has to do with the government
• what is racism ?

  Prejudice or discrimination based on race.
• what is prejudice?


   an assumption or an opinion about someone based on that person's membership to a particular group.
• what is discrimination?


  Unfair treatment based on characteristics such as race, gender, or age.
• what is persecution?

  cruel or unfair treatment towards individuals or groups based on their race, religion, nationality, or other characteristics.
• what is ban ?


  to forbid something from being or happening.
• what is nationalism?


  Devotion to one's own nation or country.