25 Flashcards
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Exalts the nation and race above the individual. strong central government that forcibly suppress oppositions
fascism
russia soviet union
Joseph stalin
elimination of private property, single authoritarian party control means of production
communism
germany
adolf hitler
the new german republic
the weimar republic
Post WW1 problems
- Restore Order
- revive the economy
- feed the nation
The government parliamentary restore order
freikorps
hitler born in
austria
on sept 12, 1919 hitler listens to a right wing racial group called
the german workers party
NAZI
national socialist german workers party
nazi platform
the destruction of the world bolshevism (communists and jews)
to destroy germanys enemies both within germany and outside
reclaim lost german land
make germany great again
in the book hitler, 4 belifs that the nazis stand for
- calls for the unification of all german speaking people under one government, austria
- claims the germans belong to a master race called the aryans
- argues that germany needs lebensraum living space, this is to be found in the east
- Hitler claims the jews are the greatest threat to the aryan race- they are behind everything that is wrong with germany
hitler seizes power through force
beer hall putsch
results of the failed putsch
-the trial publicly makes hitler a national figure
-he writes mein kompf
-he decides to take power legally
hitler’s henchman
Rudolf Hess -Party secretary
Joseph Goebbels- Minister of propaganda
Heinrich Himmler- Head of the S.S.
hitler is named reichskanzler, chancellor of germany
january 30, 1933
economic recovery
-the construction of the autobahn
-building of the volkswagen
-massive rearmament program
june 29th 1934, the night of the long knives purge
hitler has ernst roehm and the SA leadership killed
hitler remilitarized the rhineland
march 7, 1936
march 12, 1938
unification of austria to germany
the munich conference sept 1938
the allies agreed to give the studeten land to hitler in return for hitler making no further territorial demands
western democracies policy of ______________ accepting hitler’s demands in order to avoid conflict
appeasement
hitler and ____________sign a non aggression pact
stalin soviet union
hitler invades poland
sept 1 1939