Nazi Germany Exam 1 Questions With
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April 20, 1889 - answer✔Hitler Born in Austria
1891 - answer✔Foundation of Pan-German League
August 1914 - answer✔Outbreak of WWI. Hitler enlists in Bavarian army
*Hitler's spiritual world
November 1918 - answer✔Germany surrenders
*Hitler's world shattered
*anti-semitic literature Hitler read before the war was right
*legend of being stabbed in the back. Lost at home because people at home were trying to
sabotage German forces and tried to cause a revolution (marxist/socialist)
January 5, 1919 - answer✔Foundation of German Workers' Party (DAP) in Munich
June 28, 1919 - answer✔Treaty of Versailles signed
-blamed for war
-loss of territory
-debt
-anger against treaty dominated Hitler's early speeches
September 1919 - answer✔Hitler joins DAP
*Dedicated himself to the mobilization of the state able to nurture the racial superiority of
Germans, eliminate subversives and resist enemies to make Germany a world power
*Hitler turned the party into a political movement
February 1920 - answer✔DAP changes name to National Socialist German Workers' Party
(NSDAP)
June 1922 - answer✔Assassination of foreign minister Walther Rathenau
*he was Germany's first and only Jewish foreign minister provoking runaway inflation and
destroying any sound basis for fiscal policy
November 1923 - answer✔Beer Hall Putch
-imitated after Stalin's march on Rome, which had been successful in ousting the liberal Italian
government
-tries to take over Munich, failed attempt to take over government
-Hitler convicted of treason, sentenced to five years in prison
February-March 1924 - answer✔Hitler tried and sentences to five years' prison; starts to write
Mein Kampf
*trial was a crucial turning point
*the trial revealed the inadequacy of Germany's elites, misguidedness of a direct putsch against
the might of the state and the importance of winning over the public
*Through Mein Kampf, Hitler came to decalre himself the leader whose destiny it was to
renovate the German nation
December 1924 - answer✔Hitler released from prison
*had considerable support
February 1925 - answer✔NSDAP refounded; SS established
April 1925 - answer✔Hindenburg elected president of Germany
July 1925 - answer✔First volume of Mein Kampf published
1930s - answer✔*National Socialists represented something new
*Nazis proved to be effective and confident organizers
*the party developed a relationship with those of the middle class who felt betrayed by the
traditional parties
January 1929 - answer✔Himmler appointed as leader of SS
October 1929 - answer✔US stock market crash
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