Chapter Twenty Six Flashcards
italy
benito mussolini
exalts the nation and race above the individual. strong central government that forcibly suppresses opposition
fascism
russia (soviet union)
joseph stalin
elimination of private property, single authoritarian party controls means of production
communism
germany
adolf hitler
the new german republic was known as
weimar republic
post world war I problems
•restore order
•revive the economy
•feed the nation
the government paramilitary to restore order
Freikorps
hitler was born in
Austria
on september 12th, 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 “world bolshevism” (communists and the jews)
•to destroy germanys enemies, both within germany (the november criminals) and outside
•reclaim lost german lands
•make germany great again
hitler moment to seize power through force
beer hall putsch
results of the failed putsch
1) the trial publicity makes hitler a national figure
2) he writes mein kampf
3) he decides to take power legally
in the book, hitler: beliefs and part of what NAZIs stand for
•calls for the unification of all german-speaking peoples under one government (austria)
•claims the germans belong to a “master race” called the aryans
•argued 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 in germany
hitler henchmen and men who will be instrumental in hitlers rise to power
•ernst roehm: S.A. chief leader of the brown shirts
•hermann goering: head of the luftwaffe
•rudolf hess: party secretary
•joseph goebbles: minister of propaganda
•heinrich himmler: head of the S.S.
•albert speer: head of munitions
hitler is named (reichskanzier) chancellor of germany
january 30th, 1933
economic recovery
•the construction of the autobahn
•building of the volkswagen
•massive rearmament program
june 29, 1934 the “night of the long knives purge”
hitler has ernst roehm and the S.A. leadership killed
hitler demilitarized the rhineland
march 7th, 1936
march 12th, 1938
unification of austria to germany
the munich conference september 1938
the allies agree to give the sudentenland to hitler in return for hitler making no further territorial demands
western democracies policy of what meant accepting hitlers demands in order to avoid conflict
appeasement
hitler and who sign a nonaggression pact
stalin (soviet union)
hitler invades poland and world war II begins
september 1st, 1939
