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Parliamentary system ruled by a chancellor.
What is another word for chancellor?
– Prime minister.
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Germany fell behind on war reparations and France seized control of it’s rich coal mining lands of the
Ruhr Valley.
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A charismatic, energetic rising leader rose in the scene promising to solve the economic problems and to restore Germany’s greatness.
Adolf Hitler
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(My Struggle) – Hitler’s #1 selling book that outlined his political, cultural, economic, and military plans.
Mein Kampf
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1 = Holy Roman Empire, 2 =Bismark as Chancellor, 3 = Nazi Party which would rule for 1,000 yrs.
Third Reich
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1 party dictatorship
Totalitarianism
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Elite, black uniformed secret police that used fear and terror tactics to scare people into following Nazi policy.
Gestapo
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aws that took away the rights of German citizenship from the Jews.
Nuremburg Laws
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“Kristallnacht”
The Night of Broken Glass
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A Nazi inspired boys club similar to boy scouts where young German boys learned to hunt, fish, shoot, camp etc…oh an be brainwashed into little Nazi’s as well.
Hitler Youth
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or giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace.
appeasement
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opposition to all war spread throughout the world after WWI.
pacifism
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U.S. law that forbade the sale of weapons to nations at war. Without aid from the U.S. England and France could not face Germany
Neutrality Acts
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Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japanese alliance that agreed to fight Soviet Communist expansion.
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Spanish revolutionary General who led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war.
Francisco Franco
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Lebensraum
living space for Germans.
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Union of Germany and Austria that was outlawed by the Treaty of Versailles.
Anschluss
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German speaking portion of Czechoslovakia that was home to some 3 million Germans.
Sudentenland
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Leaders from France, England, and Germany got together to discuss Hitler’s goals. England & France agreed to let Hitler take the Sudentenland after Hitler gave his word that it was the last demand that he would have.
- Munich Pact
- Munich Conference 1938
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Told the British Parliament that the ***** had saved Czechoslovakia.
Munich Pact
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Non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin. Agreed to divide up Poland and not go to war.
Nazi – Soviet Pact
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lightening war
blitzkrieg
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Invasion of England by Germany.
Operation Sea Lion
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The *(german air force)* was never able to gain air superiority over the skies of England.
Luftwaffe
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Germany’s greatest WWII era General nicknamed “The Desert Fox”.
Erwin Rommel
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Detention centers for Jews, political prisoners, and civilians thought to be enemies of the state
Concentration Camps
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The massacre of nearly 6 million Jews by the Nazi’s.
Holocaust
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set of goals for the war (destroy the Nazi’s) and the postwar world.
Atlantic Charter
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Allowed President Roosevelt to see arms to nation who he deemed their survival crucial to our Democratic way of life.
Lend-Lease Act
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