Activity 5: Nazi Laws - Sequencing Task

Read through the following sentences then try to put them into an order that makes sense.

This new law was called the Enabling Act.
The vast majority of the members of the Reichstag, therefore, voted in favour of passing the Enabling Act because they were frightened of the consequences if they didn’t.
The Enabling Act authorised the Nazi government to pass whatever laws it wished without having to have the approval of a majority of members of the Reichstag.
Most of the Communist deputies had been arrested after the burning of the Reichstag so an important source of opposition was removed.
In order to pass such an extraordinary piece of legislation, the Nazis had to obtain a two-thirds majority of votes in the Reichstag.
On 23 March 1933, the Nazi government passed a new law that effectively enabled them to end democracy in Germany and rule the country as a dictatorship
Representatives of other parties were intimidated by the Nazi police as they arrived at the Reichstag to vote that day.