Global 2 Honors Nazi Germany Review
What made many people follow Hitler?
Great Depression
Hitler is the leader of
National Socialist German Workers, or Nazis
What did Hitler reject?
Treaty of Versailles
Who supported Germany during hyperinflation?
US, Britain, France
Why did Germans dislike the Weimer Republic?
Versailles treaty, with guilt clause and heavy reparations
Why did conservative politicians turn to Hitler?
because they feared growth of communist political power
What is the constitution in Weimar in 1919?
parliamentary system, women's right to vote and the bills of rights
Hitler appealed to nationalism by recalling
past glories
When did European anti-Semitism originate?
persecutions of the Middle Ages
What are the problems the Weimar Republic faced?
political extremists, extreme inflation, Great Depression
What did Communists demand?
radical changes like those Lenin had brought to Russia
Who did Hitler's program appeal to?
veterans, workers, lower middle class, small-town Germans, business people
hyperinflation
A very rapid rise in the price level; an extremely high rate of inflation.
During the Great Depression who promised to solve economic crisis and restore Germany's former greatness?
Adolf Hitler
What coup did Hitler form in November 1923 in Munich?
Beer Hall Putsch
What does Hitler have in common with Stalin
Both purged their own party and brutally executed Nazis he felt were disloyal
How is Hitler similar to Musssolini?
Both used organized their supporters into fighting squads who terrorized the cities
What did the West do in the Dawes Plan?
France withdrew its forces from the Ruhr, and American loans helped the German economy recover.
Why was Hitler sent to prison?
From the failures of the Beer Hall Putsch
Gestapo
German secret police
Who is Hitler's secret police?
Gestapo
When did German leaders drafted a constitution in the city of Weimar.
1919
When did France occupied the coal-rich Ruhr Valley?
1923
When did hyperinflation occur in Germany?
1923
When did Nazis passe the Nuremberg Laws?
1933
When was Hitler appointed Chancellor?
30th January 1933
An item that cost 100 marks in July 1922 might have costed ____ marks by August 1923.
944,000
Slavs and inferior nations must bow to
Aryan needs
What is the 1924 plan to reduce German reparation payments from the West?
Dawes Plan
When was Hitler released from prison?
December 1924
Where is Hitler's ideas rooted?
European anti-Semitism
What will lead Germany and the world to another war?
Hitler's aggressive goals
Beer Hall Putsch
In 1923 the Nazis attempted to overthrow the government in Munich. It was a total failure, and Hitler received a brief prison sentence during which time he wrote Mein Kampf.
Who is Germany's greatest enemy?
Jews
Hitler said that Germany must expand to gain ___ for his people.
Lebensraum
Who did Germany scapegoated for Germany's political and economic problems?
Marxists, German Jews
How did Hitler blame on Germany's defeat?
Marxists, Jews, corrupt politicians, business leaders
First Reich
Medieval Holy Roman Empire lasting 800 years
Mein Kempf meaning
My Struggle
anti-Semitism
Prejudice against Jews
right-wing extremism
Seek to retain or to reestablish an earlier status quo by the use of terrorist acts
Third Reich
The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
What leader did the conservatives desire?
a leader like Bismarck
reparation
a payment made for a wrong or an injury
Hitlers viewed Jews as not a separate religion but
a separate race
Nazis controlled
all aspects of German life
Hitler defined someone as a Jew as anyone having
at least one Jewish grandparent
What restrictions did the Nuremberg Laws placed on Jews?
banned from marrying non-Jews, attending or teaching at German schools, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine, publishing books
Hitler preserved capitalism but
brought big business and labor under government control
Where did Tens of thousands of people work?
building highways and replanting forests
How did the government pay the workers?
by printing huge quantities of paper money
How did German workers in the Ruhr Valley strike?
by protesting using passive resistance and by refusing to work
Who leads the parliamentary system?
chancellor
What industries did France took over in the Ruhr Valley?
coal, iron, steel
Ruhr Valley
coal-rich industrial region of Germany
What new cultural movements emerged in the Great Depression during Germany?
dadaist art and Bauhaus architecture
Nuremberg Laws
deprived Jews of German citizenship and placed severe restrictions on them
Second Reich
empire forged by Bismarck in 1871
What did Hitler promise?
end reparations, create jobs, and defy the Versailles treaty by rearming Germany
What obsessions did Mein Kampf reflect?
extreme nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism
Why is Hitler a dictator of Germany?
his supporters suspended civil rights, destroyed the communists, and disbanded other political parties
What did printing money result in?
hyperinflation
Why is the Weimar Republic Weak?
it had many small parties and its chancellor had made coalitions that easily fell apart
What did many people believe about the modern German culture?
it is not keeping with Germany's illustrious past
How did Hitler combat the Great Depression?
large public works programs
Aryans
light-skinned Europeans
Lebensraum
living space
What did Bertolt Brecht criticize with the Three-Penny Opera?
middle class values
Who are elite black-uniformed troops that enforced he Furher's will
the SS
What did the drawings of George Grosz ranted?
the failings of the Weimar Republic
chancellor
the highest official of a monarch, prime minister
Reichstag
the lower house of the German legislature
Who are the conservatives that attacked the government as too liberal and weak?
the old Junker nobility, military officers, wealthy bourgeoisie
What caused people to identify Jews as ethnic outsiders?
the rise of nationalism in the 1800s.
Treaty of Versailles
the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
Why did few objected to the loss of freedom?
their standard of living rose
What happened to people who criticized Hitler?
they became victims of terror or were cowed into silence in fear for their own safety
What did Hitler claimed about Germans
they belong to a master race of Aryans
Germany has went from democracy to
totalitarism
In his recipe for revival, Hitler urged Germans to
unite into one great nation
