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Unit 1: Change and conflict (Ideologies and conflict 1918-1945)
Quick questions on Nazi Germany 1933-1939 (VCE Modern History Unit 1)
14short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What is chancellor appointment?Show answer
30 January 1933 by President Hindenburg.
What is reichstag Fire?Show answer
27 February 1933. Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe arrested at the scene. The next day, the Reichstag Fire Decree suspended civil liberties indefinitely.
What is march 1933 election?Show answer
Held under SA terror. Nazis won $43.9$%, fell short of majority. Combined with allied DNVP they had enough to pass legislation.
What is enabling Act?Show answer
24 March 1933. Two-thirds majority secured by arresting Communist deputies and intimidating others. Gave the Cabinet legislative powers for four years; effectively suspended the constitution.
What is one-party state?Show answer
SPD banned 22 June 1933. All other parties dissolved or self-dissolved by 14 July 1933. Trade unions abolished 2 May 1933.
What is night of the Long Knives?Show answer
30 June 1934. Hitler purged the SA leadership (Röhm), placating the army. Other political opponents (Schleicher, Strasser) murdered.
What is hindenburg's death and Führerprinzip?Show answer
Hindenburg died 2 August 1934. Hitler merged Chancellor and President into the office of Führer. Army swore personal loyalty to Hitler.
What is gestapo and SS?Show answer
Secret state police (Gestapo, 1933) and Heinrich Himmler's SS (originally Hitler's bodyguard, became the regime's primary security apparatus, 1934 onward). Concentration camps from Dachau (1933).
What is racial state?Show answer
Nuremberg Laws (15 September 1935). The Reich Citizenship Law stripped Jews of German citizenship. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour banned marriage and extramarital relations between Jews and Germans.
What is kristallnacht?Show answer
9-10 November 1938. State-coordinated pogrom triggered by the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris. $267$ synagogues destroyed; over $7\,500$ Jewish businesses; $91$ Jews killed; $30\,000$ Jewish men sent to concentration camps.
What is t4 euthanasia programme?Show answer
From 1939, the Nazi regime murdered approximately $70\,000$ disabled Germans. The mechanism (gas chambers, lying death certificates) prefigured the Holocaust.
What is schacht era?Show answer
Hjalmar Schacht as Economics Minister. Public works (autobahns), MEFO bills financing rearmament without obvious inflation. Unemployment fell from $6$ million (1932) to less than $1$ million (1937).
What is four Year Plan?Show answer
Hermann Göring directed the economy toward war preparation. Autarky (economic self-sufficiency) prioritised. Schacht resigned in opposition (1937).
What is forced labour?Show answer
Concentration camp inmates, then conquered populations from 1939, supplied labour to German industry.