Power and authority in the modern world (Section II core) quiz

A negotiated settlement endorsed as broadly fair and balanced by all of the major signatory powers

A punitive peace that imposed reparations, territorial losses, and Article 231 on Germany

A mutual-defence alliance binding the victors against future Russian Bolshevik expansion westward

An economic and customs union integrating the major European industrial powers into one bloc

Voluntarily resign the Chancellorship and hand authority back to the Reichstag deputies

Restore and entrench the democratic protections of the Weimar Constitution against extremists

Suspend civil liberties via the Reichstag Fire Decree, accelerating the consolidation of power

Negotiate Germany's formal surrender and disarmament terms with the victorious Allied governments

The hyperinflationary economic depression that crippled the early Weimar Republic in the 1920s

The mass agitation and propaganda techniques pioneered by the Soviet Communist Party leadership

A multilateral diplomatic conference convened to revise the postwar European territorial settlement

The Nazi process of bringing all German institutions into ideological alignment

The SA leadership under Ernst Rohm and other perceived rivals

The entire Nazi Party apparatus, dissolved by Hitler in favour of military rule

The senior Wehrmacht general staff who opposed Hitler's rearmament programme

The Catholic episcopate and clergy who had resisted the regime's church policy

Tariff and foreign trade policy designed to revive German exports

Citizenship and racial classification of Jews in Germany

A sweeping reform of the Reich's personal and corporate taxation system

The expansion and rearmament of the Luftwaffe in breach of Versailles

A genuinely spontaneous popular protest that erupted without any direction from the regime

A severe banking and currency crisis that destabilised the German economy in late 1938

A state-orchestrated pogrom against Jewish persons, property, and synagogues

A multilateral diplomatic conference convened to resolve tensions over the Sudeten territories

Containment (the Truman strategy)

Mutual deterrence between blocs

Collective security via the League

Appeasement (Chamberlain's policy)

Hitler followed a coherent plan from Mein Kampf onwards

Nazi policy was largely improvised in reaction to shifting domestic and diplomatic circumstances

Hitler played no meaningful role and merely ratified decisions taken by the party bureaucracy

All major decisions originated with the Wehrmacht high command rather than the political leadership

Drawing up the overall strategic plan for the German war effort on the Eastern and Western fronts

Coordinating the bureaucratic implementation of the 'Final Solution' across German ministries

Marking the very first decision to begin the systematic murder of Europe's Jewish population

Agreeing to halt and wind down the genocide in response to mounting Allied military pressure

Acquitting every senior Nazi defendant entirely on the grounds that they had merely been following the lawful orders of superiors

Formally restoring the institutions of the German Reich under a reconstituted national government

Establishing the principle of individual responsibility for crimes against humanity in international law

Founding the United Nations and drafting its charter for the postwar international order

Hitler's personal charisma operating entirely on its own as the single decisive cause, wholly independent of any institutional, legal or coercive factors

Direct foreign military and diplomatic intervention by the major powers in support of the new regime

The rapid economic recovery under Schacht acting alone as the overwhelming and sufficient cause

A combination of legal-constitutional manoeuvres, paramilitary violence, propaganda, and the destruction of civil society institutions

Nazi Germany illustrates how a modern democracy can be dismantled in less than two years through the combination of legal manoeuvre, organised violence, and the systematic elimination of independent civil-society institutions.

In this essay I am going to talk about lots of different things that happened in Nazi Germany over the years, because there were so many interesting and important events that took place during this whole period of German history that everybody should know all about.

Hitler did many bad things that everybody already knows about, and this essay will go through all of them one by one in order to show just how bad and terrible the whole situation really was for people.

Germany is a very important country to study and has a long and complicated history that students should learn about, which is exactly why this topic appears so often in examinations and textbooks.