7.6

Question 1

Adolf Hitler

Answer 1

Fascist German leader. He claimed the problems of Germany were due to outsiders like the Jews, Slavs, communists, Romani, and gays, and they all must be purged from Germany for Germany to be prosperous again.

Question 2

Weimar Republic

Answer 2

the elected German government post-WWI. Many saw it as weak due to the reparations and unemployment Germany faced during this time

Question 3

Mein Kampf

Answer 3

Hitler’s book titled “My Struggle” with extreme anti-Semitic views.

Question 4

Nazis

Answer 4

the National Socialist German Worker’s Party that won control of the German government and then just never let go. Led by Adolf Hitler, they staged the Reichstag and convinced Germany they were in a state of emergency. Outlawed all other political parties.

Question 5

Reichstag

Answer 5

the Nazis staged the burning of the German parliament building and blamed it on radical extremists, which then allowed them to outlaw all other political parties

Question 6

scientific racism

Answer 6

bs doctrine that claimed some races were “scientifically” better than others

Question 7

anti-Semitism

Answer 7

hostility towards Jews

Question 8

Aryans

Answer 8

white people

Question 9

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 9

German laws passed that forbade Jewish and Gentile marriage, stripped Jews of citizenship, and generally marginalized German Jews

Question 10

Rome-Berlin Axis

Answer 10

Germany’s military pact with fascist Italy

Question 11

Anti-Comintern Pact

Answer 11

Germany’s alliance with Japan founded on their mutual distrust of communism

Question 12

Axis Powers

Answer 12

the alliances between Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 13

Kristallnacht

Answer 13

“the night of broken glass” in Germany when a Jewish teenager assassinated a German diplomat and set off a series of anti-Jewish riots in which many were killed, all synagogues were burned, and Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. The Nazis actually orchestrated the entire event

Question 14

appeasement

Answer 14

giving in to someone’s demands to keep them from doing something bad

Question 15

the Third Reich

Answer 15

Hitler’s plan for a German Empire

Question 16

Anschluss

Answer 16

the political union between Austria and Germany after Germany took over

Question 17

Sudetenland

Answer 17

A section of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted and the British and French allowed him to have in the Munich agreement to appease and stop his desire for land

Question 18

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 18

British prime minister who argued for the Munich agreement to appease Germany

Question 19

Munich Agreement

Answer 19

agreement by Britain and France to allow Germany to take Sudetenland to appease and stop their desire for land. The Germans saw the Brits and French were wimps and invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia.

Question 20

Danzig

Answer 20

Polish port Hitler claimed Germany had a historical claim to, when in reality, he just wanted an excuse to invade Poland. The French and British said they would defend Poland if Germany invaded. Hitler’s invasion began WW2

Question 21

German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Answer 21

pact between Germany and the Soviet Union to not attack each other and back each other if war broke out

Question 22

Lebensraum

Answer 22

a territory/ the policy under which Germany believed a region was within it’s natural destiny to claim