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World War Two – Rise of Adolf Hitler
30/01/1933 – Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany
1. Did Hitler come to power legally?
2. Who was Hindenburg?
3. Why did he offer Hitler the chancellorship?
4. What was the purpose of the “Reichstag fire”?
27/02/1933 Reichstag Fire
5. What did the emergency laws allow Hitler to do?
11/03/1933 – SA attack Jewish owned shops
6. Who were the SA?
20/03/1933 Dachau
7. Where is Dachau built and in what year?
8. Who are the first prisoners of Dachau?
24/03/1933 Hitler given powers to rule be decree
9. What did the Enabling Act do for Hitler?
1/04/1933 SA prevents shoppers from using Jewish shops
10. Why did the SA paint stars of David on Jewish owned shops?
11. How many Jews were in Germany in 1933?
12. What types of jobs did Jews typically have?
13. Why were Jews blamed for the rise of socialism?
14. What did the article “The Protocol of the Elders of Zion” say?
07/04/1933 Jews and dissenters purged from civil service
15. What was the law for the restoration of the Professional Civil Service?
16. What kinds of Jews are barred from working?
13/02/1933 Rhineland Bastards
17. What did Hermann Goering ask local authorities to do?
18. Who are considered the “Rhineland Bastards”?
25/04/1933 Quotas introduced for Jewish children in schools
19. What did this law do?
20. What was the response from Jewish communities?
10/05/1933 Students burn books in public bonfires
21. What kinds of books are burned and why?
22. Why do you think students in colleges were the most right wing or pro Nazi group
in Germany?
14/07/1933 Law for Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Progeny
23. What did this edict say?
24. What did Social Darwinism have to do with this law?
25. What is a racial state?
26. What are some of the hereditary sicknesses that could lead one to get sterilized?
1/05/1934 Nazi Paper Claims Jews kill Christian Children
27. What is blood libel?
18/08/1935 Civil Marriages between Aryans and non Aryans forbidden
28. Why do you think this law was passed?
15/09/1935 Nuremberg Laws Passed to limit Jewish Rights
29. What did this law prohibit?
30. Did the Nazi race experts have trouble with defining Jewish as a race?
12/03/1938 Anschluss of Germany and Austria / Anti Semitic Laws Applied
31. What does Anschluss mean?
32. What happened to Jews in Vienna?
33. What happened to those Jewish Austrians who were able to find escape? What
did they have to give up?
21/04/1938 First Major arrests of people termed “asocials”
34. What are asocials?
35. Where will they be sent?
36. Why did the Nazis focus so much attention on this group?
12/06/1938 Gypsy Clean Up Week
37. Who is to be arrested?
38. What is the so called “crimes” committed by these groups?
6/07/1938 International Conference to help Jewish refugees
39. Are any countries willing to admit the Jews who are fleeing Austria and
Germany? Why Not?
40. Why is Palestine barred as a place for escape for Jewish refugees?
27/07/1938 Separate Park Benches for Jews and Aryans
41. What does this rule remind you of and why?
06/10/1938 Germany annexes Sudeten region from Czechoslovakia
42. Who allowed Germany to take over this area and why?
09/11/1938 German Jews suffer the Kristallnacht pogrom
43. What does Kristallnacht mean in German?
44. What did the SA do that night?
45. How many synagogues were burned?
46. Why will German Jews have to pay a one million dollar fine?
47. Were Jews responsible for any other payments as a result of the violence?
15/03/1939 Bohemia and Moravia declared a German Protectorate
48. Where are these territories located?
25/07/1939 First Severely Disabled Child Killed by the State
49. What was his name?
50. How many infants will meet the same fate?
01/09/1939 Invasion of Poland
51. What is the Einsatzgruppen?
01/09/1939 German Jews Face Further Restrictions
52. After the curfew is introduced for German Jews, what else is restricted or
forbidden?
06/09/1939 Occupation of Krakow – Population of Jews 60,000/18/09/1939 Germans
enact measures against Jews in Lublin
53. What are the Jews forced to do?
54. What is prohibited?
29/09/1939 Poland Partitioned between Germany and Russia
55. Why did Poland get split into two?
08/10/1939 First Jewish ghetto established
56. Where is it established and how many Jews were in it?
09/10/1939 Hitler authorizes “mercy campaigns”
57. What does the poster say in English?
58. What happened to those who were deemed unfit to live?
59. How did they murder them? By what method?
60. How many people were killed this way?
04/11/1939 Gestapo round up Polish intelligentsia for execution
61. Who are considered the intelligentsia? How many were rounded up and killed?
20/05/1940
62. What camp is established?
03/10/1940 Vichy government adopts severe anti Semitic laws
63. What is the Vichy govt?
16/10/1940
64. How many Jews were in the Warsaw ghetto?
65. How many people died each month here?
05/02/1941 and 17/02/1941
66. What happened?
22/06/1941 Germany invades Russia in “war of extermination”
67. What did Hitler tell his generals about the fighting in Russia?
68. What was Operation Barbarossa?
24/06/1941 Collaborators massacre Jews in Ponary Forest, near Vilna
69. Where is Vilna?
70. How many Jews lived here?
71. Germans will kill 5,000 Jews here. Who helped out so willingly?
72. A ghetto will be formed here. How many will die by the end of the year?
73. How many Jews are in Kovno? How many will die?
27/08/1941 Mass Murder of Jews in Ukraine
74. How many Jews are murdered at Kamenets-Poldolsk in Ukraine?
75. Describe the picture.
29/09/1941 33, 771 Kiev Jews shot at Babi Yar
76. Where is Kiev?