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GCSE History Knowledge Test
UNIT 2: 2 Hitler and the Nazi Party’s Rise
German Worker’s
Party (DAP)
25 Point
Programme
A small group founded by Anton Drexler, later became the Nazi Party.
The Party programme of the Nazis.
NSDAP
National Socialist German Workers Party; the Nazi Party.
Swastika
The emblem of the Nazi party
Völkischer
Beobachter
Nazi Party newspaper
Führer
Leader; Adolf Hitler’s title
Sturmabteilung
(SA)
Also known as ‘stormtroopers/brownshirts, acted as the Nazi Party’s private
army.
A failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler — along with
General Ludendorff— to seize power in Munich.
Munich Putsch
Mein Kampf
Autobiography by Hitler, in which he outlines his future plans for Germany.
Führerprinzip
Leadership principle; total loyalty to the leader.
Lebensraum
Living space.
Gauleiters
Regional leaders of the Nazi Party.
Schutzstaffel (SS)
Nazi Party security group.
Joseph Goebbels
Minister of People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda.
Big public meetings, used to increase enthusiasm or support for an organisation
or movement.
1. Caused by the Wall Street Crash and the collapse of German banking and
Great Depression
industry.
Heinrich Brüning Chancellor of Germany from 1930-32
Rallies
Power vacuum
Presidential
Elections
‘Someone has lost control of something and no one has replaced them.’
Franz von Papen
Chancellor of Germany from May 1932-November 1932
Hindenburg
The second President of Germany during the period 1925–34.
The popular vote taken in the Weimar Republic to elect the country’s president.