NEW UPDATED Paper 1: Understanding the Modern World (Nazi Germany and Conflict and Tension in Asia)

updated 18th may 2023

February 1932

Hitler becomes a German citizen

Hitler's bid for President

March 1932

12 seats

in 1928

230 seats

in July 1932

196 seats

in November 1932

288 seats

in March 1933

January 30th 1933

Hitler becomes Chancellor

October 1929

Wall Street Crash

6 million

People unepmloyed during the Great Depression

2 million members

of the SA

National Socialist Party

The Nazi Prty

Wall Street Crash

The collapse of share prices on the New York Stock Exchange

The Great Depression

Worldwide depression where Germany as a result of the recall of US loans, causing its economy to collapse.

Hitler's propaganda

Travelled to 20 cites in 7 days

Biggest party in the Reichstag

1932

Propaganda

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

Joseph Goebbels

Minister of German Propaganda

Ernst Rohm

Leader of the SA

SA (Brownshirts)

Nazi paramiltary group

SS (Blackshirts)

Hitler's elite guard, saw themselves as ultimate defenders of Aryan race

President Hindenburg

War hero and President of Germany during the rise of Hitler

Franz von Papen

Former German chancellor who supported Hitler becoming chancellor with him as Vice

Kurt von Schleicher

Weimar Chancellor before Hitler and murdered

February 1933

Reichstag Fire

Reichstag Fire Decree

State of "emergency", allowed Hitler to throw "enemies of the state" in jail

Maximus van der Lubbe

Dutch communist and perpetrator of Reichstag Fire

Coalition with Catholic Centre Party

Gives Hitler a majority in the Reichstag

March 1933

Enabling Act is passed

Enabling Act

Enabled Hitler to pass laws as Chancellor, without the Reichstag or President

Dachau (March 1933)

First concentration camp in Germany

Gestapo (April 1933)

German secret police

May 1933

Trade Unions banned, leaders imprisoned

July 1933

Law against the formation of new parties

June 1934

Night of the Long Knives

August 1934

Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Fuhrer

Hermann Goering

Leading Nazi, head of the Luftwaffe and Reich Minister of Economics

Heimlich Himmler

Head of German SS

Rudolph Hess

deputy to Hitler, helped write Mein Kampf

Hjalmar Schadt

German economist and preceded Goering.

Wehrmacht

German army

6.1 million

Unemployed in 1933

0.4 million

Unemployed by 1939

Self-sufficiency

Aim to remove the need for importing foreign goods and using home produced goods

National Labour Service (RAD)

Compulsory for all men 18-25 to work for 6 months

Public Works Scheme

Autobahns are built linking German cities as well as schools and hsopitals

Conscription

Compulsory for all men 18-25 to join the armed forces for at least two years

4 Year Plan (1936)

To make Germnay self sufficient and rearm Germany so she can fight a major war

Reich Entailed Farm Law

Reducing taxes in farmers and writing off debts, not repossesing land

Reich Food Estate

Fixed prices for farmers so they get good, guaranteed prices for produce

Blood and Soil Propaganda

Celebrated farmer's contribution to German society

German Labour Front (DAF)

Replaced trade unions

Beauty of Labour (SDA)

improved working conditions

Strength through Joy (KDF)

way to incentivise workers to woek harder through reward schemes

Indocrination

process of teaching only a certain set of beliefs - brainwashing

Eugenics

science of improving a population by removing certain groups

German Teacher's League

Union for teachers that everyone had to join

Napolas

Elite schols for training future Nazi leadership

Adolf Hitler Schools

Acedemic and physical schools for ideal Nazis

Law banning all other Youth Clubs 1933

banned all clubs including sports and church etc.

Law for the Incorporation of German Youth 1936

gave Hitler Youth equal status as school and home

Membership of Hitler Youth made compulsory 1939

all children that fit Nazi ideals had to serve in Hitler Youth

Little Fellows

Boys 6-10

Young Folk

Boys 10-14

Hitler Youth

Boys 14-18

Young Girls

Girls 10-14

League of German Girls

Girls 14-17

Swing Youth

Youth who didn't attend Hitler Youth and aprtied, listening to American Jazz

Aryan Race

name of pure German Race

Lebensborn

State sponsored pairing of SS offficers with Aryan women

3 K's

Children, Church and Cooking - focus of Nazi women

Nazi Women's Organisation

Women's group supporting Nazi policies

Motherhood Cross

Award given to mothers according to the amount of children you have

German Women's League

Nazi women's group who gave training on motherhood

Law for the Encouragement of Marriage

Law that gave 1000 marks loan to newlyweds, discounting them 250 marks per child

Concordat

Deal between Nazis and Pope in 1933 not to interfere

Euthanasia

Policy of terminating those who are not worthy of life according to the Nazis

Confessional Church

Anti Nazi Protestant Church

Martin Nielmoller

Anti-nazi protestant pastor sent to Dachau

Pacifists

People who refuse to fight like Jehovah's Witnesses

Archbishop Galen

Catholic archbishop imprisoned for 4 years

German Christians

Pro-Nazi protestant church

Ludwig Muller

Leader of German Christians and Reich Bishop

German Workers Party

Original name of the Nazi party

The Ruhr

Industrial region invaded by French

Bundesrat

Local German Parliament

9th November 1918

Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates

Blockade

Royal Navy did this to German ports

Reichstag

National German parliament

Gustav Stresemann

Saves Weimar Republic

Article 231

War Guilt Clause

Planes

Banned in Treaty of Versailles

Kaiser

Prussian king

Franco-Prussian War

Major war that brought upon unification of Germany

10 percent

Of land lost in the Treaty of Versailles

Landesburg

Hitler's prison

U-boats

Banned in the treaty of Versailles for the navy

Leader of the SA

Ernst Rohm

Friekorps

Decommissioned right wing soldiers

Armistice

Ceasefire on the 11th November 1918

Tanks

Banned in the treaty of Versailles for army