Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Federal State of Austria was colloquially known as the Standestaat, a term derived from Stande, meaning estates or corporations. It existed from 1934 to 1938 as a one-party state led by the conservative, nationalist, corporatist, and Catholic Fatherland Front.
Dollfuss used the resignation of Social Democrat Karl Renner as parliament president on the 4th of March 1933 to declare a parliamentary self-elimination, then invoked a World War I-era Wartime Economy Authority Law to govern by emergency decree. On the 15th of March 1933, he had the next scheduled parliamentary session forcibly dispersed by the Vienna police.
The Austrian Civil War began on the 12th of February 1934 when government forces raided the Hotel Schiff in Linz while attempting to enforce a ban on the Social Democratic Republikanischer Schutzbund paramilitary. Armed resistance spread, and the revolt was suppressed by the Bundesheer and Heimwehr troops under Ernst Rudiger Starhemberg.
According to Angus Maddison's estimates, Austrian unemployment peaked at 26% in 1933 and did not fall below 20% until 1937. Real GDP did not return to its pre-1929 level until 1937, and by 1936 only 50% of the unemployed were receiving unemployment benefits.
On the 11th of March 1938, Austrian Nazis stormed the Federal Chancellery and forced Chancellor Schuschnigg to resign. Seyss-Inquart was sworn in as chancellor, then as acting president after Miklas resigned to avoid signing the Anschluss bill, and signed the law himself. Wehrmacht troops crossed the border the next day without resistance, and a subsequent referendum on the 10th of April recorded an officially reported 99.73% approval, though 18% of Austrians had been removed from voter rolls in advance.
Catholic doctrine was the central pillar of the Standestaat's ideology. The regime elevated papal encyclicals, especially Pope Pius XI's Quadragesimo anno of 1931, as its governing framework, de-secularized schools by requiring religious instruction for the Matura graduation exam, and gave the Catholic Church an institutional voice in public affairs. The regime framed Austrian identity as Catholic and distinct from German Protestant culture.