AP European History 1.2 Period 4: 1914-Present

alone due to which of the following and here your potential answers [mumbling]

.....Well before moving forward it's important to clarify what ruled by [camera going quickly through a busy street]

decree means.. Essentially it's a style of ruling that allows for a quick and [Teacher holding his hands in the air]

unchallenged creation of laws by a single person or group it's most

commonly used by dictators, absolute monarchs and older sisters...naturally then [Older sister screaming]

Hitler was a fan but what was it that allowed him to rule in such a way was it

the Nuremberg laws, not quite these were actually the laws that allowed Nazi [two people looking at a German chart]

Germany to persecute Jewish people and excluded jews from Reich citizenship

they couldn't own land in Germany.. terrible yeah, our answer no. C and D are

intimately linked so we'll address them together Hindenburg was never removed

from power he actually died of lung cancer while in office. So D doesn't [Hindenburg sat at a table]

make much sense and Hitler didn't technically obtain a position of

Chancellor instead he merged the position with the presidential role and

gave it a shiny new name Fuhrer, so C doesn't fit either what allowed Hitler [Hitler with the title Fuhrer below his face]

to rule without contention was in fact the very suspicious sounding enabling

act which was passed as an amendment to the 1933 Weimar Constitution and did [German soldiers marching]

exactly what you'd expect; it enabled Hitler the power to enact laws without

the involvement of the German parliament which is we're also painfully aware was [Girl looking confused]

really not the greatest of ideas it is however the correct answer to the

question knowing this makes your older sister all the more scary doesn't it [Older sister looking angry in her room]

because while Hitler at least had to pass a lot of rule by decree she didn't.. and

that's the sign of a real dictator.... hahahaha