Fascism In Europe Flashcards
Brownshirts
Hitler’s secret police
Swastika
Nazi symbol
Nazi
Group of people who were against many other people
Fuhrer
A ruthless, tyrannical leader
Aryans
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
Adolf hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party
Anti-Semitism
hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
Reichstag fire
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.
Weimar Republic
the democratic government founded in Germany following Kaiser Wilhelm II’s abdication near the end of War World I.
Lebensraum
the territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.
Mein Kampf
a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work outlines Hitler’s political ideology and future plans for Germany.
Schutzstaffel
a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Nationalism
patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts
Benito Mussolini
the fascist prime minister of Italy, with dictatorial powers, from 1922 until he was overthrown in 1943
Night of long knives
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.