Fascism In Europe Flashcards

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Brownshirts

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Hitler’s secret police

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Swastika

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Nazi symbol

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Nazi

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Group of people who were against many other people

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Fuhrer

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A ruthless, tyrannical leader

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Aryans

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relating to or denoting a people speaking an Indo-European language wh India in the 2nd millennium BC, displacing the Dravidian and other aboriginal peoples

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Adolf hitler

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Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party

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Anti-Semitism

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hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

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Reichstag fire

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Reichstag is a historic World War II photograph, taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945. It shows Meliton Kantaria and Mikhail Yegorov raising the flag of the Soviet Union atop the Reichstag building.

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Weimar Republic

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the democratic government founded in Germany following Kaiser Wilhelm II’s abdication near the end of War World I.

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Lebensraum

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the territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.

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Mein Kampf

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a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work outlines Hitler’s political ideology and future plans for Germany.

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Schutzstaffel

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a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party

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Nationalism

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patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts

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14
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Benito Mussolini

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the fascist prime minister of Italy, with dictatorial powers, from 1922 until he was overthrown in 1943

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Night of long knives

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in German history, purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including Ernst Röhm.

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16
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II Duce

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Nickname for Mussolini

17
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Kristallnacht

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Kristallnacht: Also known as The Night of the Broken Glass. On this night, November 9, 1938, almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps.

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Blackshirts

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a member of a fascist organization having a black shirt as a distinctive part of its uniform

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Fascism 3 ideals

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Promised to revive the economy, punish those responsible for the hard times, and restore national pride