Chapter 7 Flashcards
Black Tuesday
Due to over speculation of the stock market, people began to live above their means and make purchases on credit. This caused the banks to fail and people could not repay their loans
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini founded the fascist party.
He feared communists and was backed by the middle class and the catholic church.
Black Shirt March
Parliament made Mussolini the prime minister to avoid civil war. Mussolini then makes himself dictator within three years
Paul Von Hindenburg
named adolf hitler chancellor
appeased the nazi party
Reichstag Fire
Blamed on communists
Article 48
Hitler issues this emergency decree suspending civil liberties and arresting suspected communists
enabling act
Allows hitler to bypass reichstag and pass any laws he wants without needing the approval of others
Heinrich Himmler
Secret police
Nuremberg Laws
take citizenship rights away from jews
Kristallnacht
destroyed jewish businesses and synagogues
Lubensraum
Liwing space taken from jews and slavs
Ubermensch
promoted the german master race
-women were expected to raise strong children with nazi ideals and were forced to abort “undesirables”
Anschluess
Annexation of Austria 1938
proposed by adolf hitler
Sedetenland
German speaking enclave
Neville Chamberlain
British prime minister “peace with honor”
