WWII Rise of Adolf Hitler, Appeasement, and the Holocaust Quiz

Political failures of the Weimar Republic

idea that the President can make laws without government approvement

they can appoint Chancellors based on favortism

German perspective of the government

Believed that the Weimar Republic “stabbed” the rest of the Germans in the back with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles

Weimar Republics economic response to Germany’s financial crisis

Because of the Great Depression

They started to raise taxes for the unemployed

Cut unemployment benefits

Reducing unemployment benefits to make payments more affordable

Policy aims and motives of Adolf Hitler

• Hitler joins the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) and created the Sturmabteilung (SA) or Stormtroopers 

• The party focused on German nationalism

• Wanted to reunite all Germans

• Believed in living space, the Germans need more space to move throughout countries

Foreign and Domestic

Domestic: Unite all Germans

Could be living anywhere and he wanted to reunite all Germans

Gross deutschland - unite all Germans within Austria, Czech, and Poland, known as pan-germanism

Foreign: (lebensraum) means living space take territory to make a bigger living space for everyone that is German

(lebensraum) race and living space

Germany needed more territory so they had to take over other countries

Also meant eliminating the “inferior” nations, Jews, Russians, Slavs, Ukrainians, and Gypsies (all were not German)

Beer Hall Putsch and its impact

Germans like to drink and people discussed politics in beer halls

Used 600 SA to attempt a coup (overthrow) the Weimar government in the Bavaria region with no support from the Bavarian government, police or army

Impact of the Beer Hall Putsch

the coup epically failed

16 SA members were killed

Hitler was arrested and tried for treason (served about 9 months in prison) and in prison he wrote his autobiography

Wrote Mein Kampf, which describes the ideology within Nazism

Promised only legal methods to gain power “doing things the right way”

What was the intended purpose of Appeasement?

to satisfy Hitler with everything that he wanted to do

it was also to prevent another war from happening

Why appeasement failed?

the countries miscalculated Hitler’s ambitions

Hitler †ricked some of the countries to give him part of Europe and the countries thought he would stop, but he kept wanting more.

Individuals involved with the policy of Appeasement?

Neville Chamberlain Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mussilini

Nazi polices that enforced Jewish persecution

They had to wear the Star of David

Could not own shops

Rights were stripped away

Synagogues were burnt down

Goal of Hitler’s Final Solution

to eliminate 11 million Jews

Hitler’s views (25 points)

Supremacy of the state and volk (people)

Social Darwinism

Lebensraum

Blood and Soil

Pan-Germanism

Anti-Democratic

Anti-Capitalist

Anti-Feminism

Anti-Semitic

Anti-Marxism

Extreme militarism / nationalism

Who was Neville Chamberlain?

He wants to broker peace with Germany

The cabinet is telling Neville to not make any agreements with Hitler and he did the exact opposite

He brokers peace with the Czechs and the Germans

What is the Munich Agreement?

Germany gets the Sudetenland

defecate control over Czechoslovakia

Hitler’s appeal to the German population

he promised better rights for the workers and unemployed, he started renovating Germany, and wanted to increase the nationalism in Germany