Impacts of the Great Depression and Rise of the Nazi Party

Flashcards about the impacts of the Great Depression and the rise of the Nazi Party.

Unemployment during the Great Depression

Rose to 30% in Germany, 6 million leading to increased poverty.

Collapse of internation trade?

Increased tariffs

Rise of Social + Political Unrest caused what?

Extremist ideologies gained traction, such as the Nazi Party in Germany.

Hitler Youth

Nazi youth organization focused on military fitness and Nazi ideology.

Timeline of Hitler Youth Enrollment

Established in 1926, encouraged in 1933, and mandatory by 1936, reaching 5.4 million children.

Domestic Skills Taught to German Girls

Skills in domestic chores, child-rearing, and Nazi ideology.

School Curriculum Under Nazi Germany

Maths, Biology, and History with a focus on Nazi ideology.

Gestapo

Secret police force established in April 1933 in Nazi Germany. 32000-45000

Hitler in 1919

Joined the German Workers Party (DAP).

When was the Nazi Party formed and what were its Ideologies

Anti-semitism, anti-communist.

Hyperinflation crisis

German economic collapse from reparations. 1923

Munich Putsch

Failed coup attempt in November 1923.

When did Hitler go to prison, and for how long?

1924, for 9 month, wrote meinkampf.

Nazi 1928 election results

2.6% as economy was stable.

1930 election.

18.3%, promised to help unemployment and improve the economy.

1932 Election Results

Nazi Party became the largest party with 37.3% of votes

January 1933

Hitler became Chancellor.

Reichstag Fire

February 1933. Nazis blamed communists and used it to consolidate power.

Enabling Act

March 1933. Didn't need Reichstag to pass laws and dismantled democracy.

July 1933

Nazi party became the only legal party in Germany.

Nuremburg Laws

Defined Jewish identity through ancestry, not religious beliefs.

Reich Citizenship Law - 1935

Stripped Jews of German citizenship, and designated them as 'state subjects'.

Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor

Banned marriages and relations between Jewish and Non-Jewish people.

Untermensch

Subhuman

What was the law for restoration of professional civil service 1933?

Banned Jewish doctors, from treating non Jewish, lawyers, civil servants fired, and teachers.

When were the Jewish banned from joining the army?

In 1935 with the Nuremberg Laws.

1937

Impossible to hold a business or job.