Nazi Germany & Hitler

Frage	Antworten
1939	Exclusion of Jews from economy completed. Official policy to ENCOURAGE EMMIGRATION. Jewish population decreased from 500, 000 to 200, 000.
MEFO BILLS	Scheme thought up by SCHACHT to pay for armaments, instead of using money. Mefo Bills payed for armaments, the sellers of the armaments could spend mefo bills ONLY ON GERMAN PRODUCTS. Putting money in economy, none leaving.
1936 (II)	FOUR YEAR PLAN -> Under Goering's control, aimed to have Germany ready for war by 1940 & to create AUTARKY- self sufficiency.
BY 1939	Virtually NO UMEMPLOYMENT
1919	Hitler joined small right-wing group called German Workers' Party'. Eentually took over as leader and renamed party 'Nationalist Socialist Party'
1923	MUNICH/ BEERHALL PUTSCH
4 OCTOBER 1923	VON KAHR & VON LOSSOW called off rebellion after Hitler had already collected stor troopers.
8 OCTOBER 1923	Hitler & 600 storm troopers burst into meeting being held by Kahr & Lossow in a local Beer Hall. Hitler forces them to take part in rebellion next day.
9 OCTOBER 1923	Hitler & Nazis march into Munich to rebel, when there are faced with police & army reinforcements. 16 Nazis killed. Hitler fled, but later arrested & imprisoned.
1929	Wall Street Crash DESTROYED WEIMAR GERMANY
JULY 1930	CHANCELLOR BRUNING cut government spending, wages & unemployment pay. Could not get Reichstag to agree, so President Hindenburg used Clause 48
1928	Nazis only gained 12 SEATS in Reichstag
JULY 1932	Nazis gained 230 SEATS in Reichstag, making them largest party.
1932	President Hindenburg dismissed Bruning. Replaced him with VON PAPEN.
JANUARY 1933	Hindenburg & von Papen offered Hitler position of vice- Chancellor, thinking they could control him. He REFUSED & DEMANDED to be made CHANCELLOR.
LATER JANUARY 1933	HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR
VON PAPEN -> VON SCHLEICHER	VON SCHLEICHER replaced VON PAPEN. Von Schleicher offered Hitler's deputy, Gregor Strasser, the chance to become Vice- Chancellor, as believed could control Nazis by splitting them. Strasser refused.
February 1933	REICHSTAG FIRE -> van der Lubbe, communist, caught at scene & imprisoned. Hitler angry as no other communists arrested, secured emergency powers letting him ban KPD.
5 MARCH 1933	GENERAL ELECTION: only 45% vote Nazi, but gives them majority as had 288 seats.
23 MARCH 1933	ENABLING ACT: SA intimidates all remaining non- Nazi parties. Reichstag votes to give Hitler right to MAKE OWN LAWS.
2 MAY 1933	TRADE UNIONS ABOLISHED & leaders ARRESTED.
20 JUNE 1933	CONCORDAT: Hitler makes agreement with Pope to LEAVE CATHOLIC CHURCH ALONE.
JULY 1933	ALL OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES BANNED.
APRIL 1934	NAZI PEOPLE'S COURTS set up, judges hae to swear an OATH OF LOYALTY to Hitler.
30 JUNE 1934	NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES -> some SA leaders demanding to carry out Nazi socialist agenda, Hitler won't anger businessmen or army, so has SS (Hitler's bodyguard) murder 400 SA members, SA leader Rohm.
AUGUST 1934	HINDENBURG DIES & Hitler declares himself FUHRER, joint Chancellor, President & Head of Army.
1933	One day BOYCOTT of JEWISH SHOPS
15 SEPTEMBER 1935	NUREMBERG LAWS -> 1) Jews could not marry non- Jews. 2) Jews not German citizens.
1936	BERLIN OLYMPICS- Hitler uses it as Nazi propoganda.
9 NOVEMBER 1938	KRISTALLNACHT -> Wave of terror against Jews. Suggested by Goebbels after muder of German official (supposedly by Jews). Destruction of Jewish homes, businesses & synagogues.

Nächster

Beschreibung

Zusammenfassung der Ressource

ähnlicher Inhalt

	Erstellt von otloveschocolate vor mehr als 11 Jahre