Mr. Duthie's History 12 - Unit Three

Unit Three > Chapter 25

Chapter 25 Basic Knowledge Guide:

1. List the three forces which acted as a check on the power of the central government under the German Republic.

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2. How did Hitler remove the power of the first of these?

3. By what were the trade unions replaced?

4. What law removed the right of the people to disagree with the government?

5. What was the title of a regional party chief?

6. Which group represented the greatest threat to Hitler's power?

7. What did the leader of that group want to do which would have made it an even greater threat?

8. How did Hitler deal with that threat, on 30th June 1934?

9. Why was Hitler confident that resistance among the older generations would not matter in the long run?

10. Who was head of the S.S.?

11. What other organization was he given the command of in 1936?

12. Who was Hitler's Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda?

13. What two media were most important in spreading propaganda?

14. Who spoiled the propaganda effect of the 1936 Olympics for Hitler?

15. What law took citizenship from the Jews of Germany?

16. What law forbade intermarriage between Jews and Germans?

17. What was "Kristallnacht"?

18. What was the German word for Hitler's policy towards Eastern Europe?

19. What two ways did Hitler use to deal with the unemployment problem?

Links:

The Spartacus page on Germany from WWI to 1945. Very good for an overview. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Germany.htm