History Ch2, Ch3

Question 1

2.3) Interbellum:

Answer 1

the period between the two world wars (i.e. between 1918 and 1939)

Question 2

2.3) fascism:

Answer 2

nationalist and authoritarian political ideology founded by Mussolini

Question 3

2.3) Blackshirts:

Answer 3

private militia of Mussolini

Question 4

2.3) Weimar Republic:

Answer 4

name now used for Germany from 1919 to 1933

Question 5

2.3) Nazi Party:

Answer 5

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP; German political party led by Hitler

Question 6

2.3) National Socialism:

Answer 6

political ideology of the Nazi Party

Question 7

2.3) Brownshirts:

Answer 7

private militia and guards of Hitler

Question 8

2.3) anti-Semitism:

Answer 8

hostility to or prejudice against Jews

Question 9

2.5) Reichstag:

Answer 9

German parliament

Question 10

2.5) Enabling act:

Answer 10

act through which Hitler obtained dictatorial power

Question 11

2.5) SS:

Answer 11

abbreviation for Schutzstaffel; security and military organisation controlled by the Nazi Party

Question 12

2.5) Night of the Long Knives:

Answer 12

purge used by Hitler to eradicate the critics of his regime in the SA (Brownshirts)

Question 13

2.5) nazification:

Answer 13

measures taken by Hitler to turn Germany into a totalitarian state

Question 14

2.5) indoctrination:

Answer 14

process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically

Question 15

2.5) Hitler Youth:

Answer 15

organisation in Nazi Germany for children aged 10 to 18

Question 16

2.5) Gestapo:

Answer 16

state secret police of Nazi Germany

Question 17

2.5) concentration camp:

Answer 17

camps were a government forces many people to live, sometimes under terrible conditions

Question 18

3.1) Greater German Reich:

Answer 18

large state for all German peoples that Nazi Germany tried to establish

Question 19

3.1) Lebensraum:

Answer 19

Hitler’s claim for more territory for German people in Eastern Europe and part of Russia

Question 20

3.1) Axis Powers:

Answer 20

alliance between Italy and Germany (1936); Japan joined in September 1940

Question 21

3.1) Anschluss:

Answer 21

annexation of Austria by Germany in March 1938; literally translated as ‘connection’

Question 22

3.1) appeasement:

Answer 22

policy of maintaining peace by giving in to the demands of your opponent

Question 23

3.2) Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Answer 23

pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, stating that the Soviet Union would remain neutral if Germany invaded Poland

Question 24

3.2) Blitzkrieg:

Answer 24

intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory

Question 25

3.2) Maginot Line:

Answer 25

a line of fortifications built by the French along their eastern border

Question 26

3.2) Battle of Britain:

Answer 26

a series of battles between the Royal Air Force and the German air force in 1940

Question 27

3.2) D-Day:

Answer 27

6th June 1944, the day on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy