REVISION IGCSE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY: ADOLF HITLER. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Führer of Germany (1933–45). He was chancellor from January 30, 1933, and, after President Paul von Hindenburg’s death, assumed the twin titles of Führer and chancellor (August 2, 1934).

1. ADOLF HITLER
IGCSE HISTORY
REVISION

2. DEFINITION
Adolf Hitler was the Nazi leader and the German chancellor between
1933 and 1945.

3. Question 1
What was the Beer Hall putsch?

4. Answer 1
Hitler’s first attempt to seize power in Germany, in 1923.

5. Question 2
Name the book, written by Hitler in
1924, in which he set out his main
political philosophy and aims.

6. Answer 2
Mein Kampf (My Struggle).

7. Question 3
Who did Hitler blame for Germany’s
post-1918 problems?

8. Answer 3
The so-called “November criminals” and international Jewry (the Jews).

9. Question 4
Hitler had three main foreign policy
objectives. What were they?

10. Answer 4
1. To destroy the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
2. To unite all German-speaking peoples in one country.
3. Lebensraum – to expand German land in the east (ultimately into the USSR).

11. Important!
Hitler was responsible for Germany’s military defeat in the Second
World War and for the deaths of tens of millions of people both inside
and outside Germany.