Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
14 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
govt prints more money to pay for WWI, debts treble from 50bn marks to 150bn marks in this time period as they didn’t have enough gold and were bankrupt |
1914-1918 |
|
|
govt prints more money to pay for post-war shortages and reparations (needed to pay £6.6billion), by end they had nothing left to give |
1918-1922 |
|
|
french invasion of the ruhr |
1923: French troops invaded the Ruhr, Germany’s economic powerhouse to take reparations payments in goods and raw materials Ebert called on German workers to strike and printed more money to pay them for “passive resistance” prices rise & value of money goes down |
|
|
german mark becomes worthless |
november 1923 |
|
|
Hitler bans all youth groups apart from Nazi groups |
1933 |
|
|
compulsory for all young Germans to join Nazi youth groups |
March 1939 7 million total joined the Hitler Youth movement |
|
|
Hindenburg uses Article 48 to overrule Reichstag and pass the Reichstag Fire Decree |
28th Feb 1933: allowed Hitler to use legal police force to eliminate and arrest opposition |
|
|
Enabling Act |
1933: gave him total power trade unions banned, all political parties banned and other political parties legally outlawed by end of 1933 |
|
|
SS |
by 1935, 200,000 members |
|
|
The Pastor’s Emergency League (PEL) |
1933: set up by group of protestant pastors including Martin Niemöller |
|
|
Hitler becomes Führer |
1934; complete authority |
|
|
Burning Books |
May 1933: intimidatory tactics, censorship of subversive/degenerate authors, restricts knowledge and media = can fill the lack of knowledge with propaganda |
|
|
KdF (strength through joy) had 30 million members by ____ |
1936 |
|
|
by ____ Nazis claimed nearly 34,000 companies had improved facilities |
1938 |
