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Campaign Against the Churches

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Campaign to disrupt church activities through petty means

  • not successful, only created complaints
  • abandoned after about a year

—organized by local party bosses
—Hitler Youth meetings on Sunday morning so kids couldn’t go to church
—loud brass bands playing outside of churches
not very successful, just fostered more complaints
-Hitler ordered the program to stop after about a year

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Lebensraum

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  • literally “Living Space”

- area in Eastern Europe where Hitler planned to permanently expand the German Empire

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Geneva Arms Talks

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Disarmament negotiations

  • out of fear that arms buildup had contributed to WWI
  • Hitler pulled out but indirectly
  • -made demands he knew other countries would find unreasonable, they refused as expected
  • —Hitler used their objections to defend himself, say he made a good faith effort
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Anschluss

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Germany’s annexation of Austria

-occurred without armed conflict

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Benito Mussolini

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Italian Fascist Dictator

Ally to Hitler and the Third Reich

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Anglo-German Naval Agreement

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Agreement between UK and Germany

  • gives Germany the right to have a navy that is 35% of the size of the UK’s
  • -this is done so that the UK can stop worrying about Germany and focus more on Japan’s expanding navy
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Reoccupation of the Rhineland

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reoccupation of area of western Germany

  • violated a provision of the Versailles treaty which made this area a demilitarized zone
  • stationed significant military force close to German-French border
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Popular Front (France)

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  • left-wing alliance of political parties in France
  • won legislative elections in 1936
  • first led by Leon Blum
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Winston Churchill

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British Prime Minister during most of WWII

–Known for taking strong, anti-Nazi stance from the beginning (contrast vs Chamberlain and pro-appeasement voices)

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Joachim von Ribbentrop

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-Nazi Foreign Minister
helped broker agreements with
-Italy: Pact of Steel
-Russia: Nazi-Soviet Pact
-Japan: Anti-Comintern Pact
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Guernica

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City that was attacked by Francisco Franco and German air force bombers during the Spanish Civil War

  • The city was in a strategically important location
  • The attack used carpet bombing and had a high number of civilian casualties
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Werner von Blomberg

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  • High-ranking military official (Minister of War)
  • -opposed Hitler
  • married a prostitute,
  • -Hitler threatened to reveal this, create scandal, unless he resigned
  • -Blomberg decides to resign
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Munich Conference

also Munich Agreement

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  • agreement allowing Germany to take control of Sudetenland (in Czechoslovakia)
  • Germany gave up virtually nothing, opponents appeased him to try and prevent war
  • Germany, Italy, France, UK involved in the deal
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Pact of Steel

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  • Pact between Germany and Italy
  • Included articles promising to cooperate in military matters
  • May 1939
  • signed by Joachim Von Ribbentrop (Germany) and Galeazzo Ciano (Italy)
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Blitzkrieg

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Aggressive style of combat used by Nazis

  • included heavy concentration of tanks
  • quick advancement, didn’t slow to fortify territory
  • took psychological toll on people being attacked this way (seemed faster, stronger than typical military assault)
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Phony War

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Term used by American journalist

  • referred to period of quiet from fall of 1939 to spring of 1940
  • lull in fighting occurred during this time
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Dunkirk Evacuation

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  • British troops were surrounded by German army
  • Britain evacuated troops through sea
  • Dunkirk is in France
  • Germany could have wiped out British army, but didn’t because of the evacuation
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Philippe Pétain

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  • Leader of Vichy France

- group surrendered to Nazis, operated somewhat autonomously in Southern France, while allowing the Nazis to occupy

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Erwin Rommel

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  • Nazi Military Commander, known for great success in combat in Northern Africa
  • -later forced to commit suicide by Nazis (thought he was trying to overthrow Hitler– not true)
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Einstazgruppen

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  • Nazi killing squads

- -originally used to kill high ranking members of Soviet society (Doctors, Lawyers, Government officials)

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Eugenics

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Idea of controlling genetic makeup of population

  • encourage Aryans to procreate more
  • encourage everyone else to not procreate
  • -included things like forced sterilization
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Holocaust

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Genocide carried out by the Nazi parties

-targeted Jewish population

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Star of David Badge

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Yellow, six-pointed star worn on clothing

-used to identify Jewish population by the Nazis

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Zyklon B

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Cyanide gas pellets used for genocide in death camps

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Wannsee Conference

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January 1942

  • meeting in suburb of Berlin
  • Holocaust was already underway
  • meeting was to find ways to increase scale of holocaust, deal with logistical issues to increase number and pace of killings
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El Alamein

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City in Egypt where Allies held off Axis forces in two major battles
-Turning point in North African fighting, Allies fare much better after this

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Carl Goerdeler

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—informal leader of Junker resistance
—they met at his home
—mayor of Leipzeig
-tied to Stauffenberg assassination plot in July 1944

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D-Day

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Allied invasion of Normandy (Northern Coast of France)

-Important turning point in WWII

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V Weapons

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-unmanned bombs created by the Nazis

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Confessing Church

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-Actively anti-nazi church
–in contrast to most churches, which were often politically passive
important names: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemoeller (“first they came for” quote)

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Nuremberg Laws

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  • anti-semetic laws passed by Nazi party in 1935
  • stripped Jews of citizenship, basic civil rights
  • prevented intermarrying of Jews and gentiles
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Maginot Line

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Heavy defensive fortification built by the French
Made to defend against German invasion
Germany invaded through the woods, circumventing Maginot Line
-wasn’t ultimately effective

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Neville Chamberlain

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British Prime Minister (before Churchill)

Associated with appeasement (conceding to Nazi demands during the buildup to WWII)

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Engelbert Dolfuss

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Austrian Chancellor before WWII

  • resisted Nazis, made Nazi party illegal
  • assassinated by the Nazis
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Saar District

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  • taken from Germany, given to France under Versailles treaty
  • later allowed to vote on whether to stay part of France or rejoin Germany
  • overwhelmingly voted to rejoin Germany,
  • Hitler touted this as major victory
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Ethiopian War

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1935-1936

Italy invades and occupies Ethiopia

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Kristallnacht

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  • Attack against Jews in Germany
  • Jews beaten, killed, sent to concentration camps
  • property vandalized, destroyed,
  • Nazis seized insurance payouts from destroyed Jewish store fronts – actually made a profit from the even
  • -Nazis claimed it was a spontaneous uprising – not true, planned by the Nazis
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Joseph Stalin

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Leader of Soviet Union

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Sudetenland

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  • German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia

- -annexed by Germany under the Munich agreement (1936)

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Francisco Franco

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Spanish fascist dictator

  • collaborated with German air force during Spanish Civil War
  • after that, correctly anticipated that Allies would win, refused to cooperate with Nazis further
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Spanish Civil War

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  • pitted a liberal group(republicans) against fascist group(led by Francisco Franco)
  • symbolic: fascist countries (Germany and Italy intervened) against left-leaning (Soviet Union)
  • German Air Force bombed republican forces
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Konrad Henlein

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Sudaten Politician

  • fought for annexation by Germany
  • joined Nazi party after Munoch Agreement
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Danzig

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  • territory transferred from Poland to Germany under Versailles treaty
  • -Hitler demanded it be returned, Poland refused
  • –UK, France, threatened war against Hitler if he invaded
  • Hitler backs off until the beginning of WWII
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Nazi-Soviet Pact

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-happened after Hitler learned Allies had reached out to Soviet Union to cooperate

Agreement between Germany and Soviet Union

  • non-agression agreement, economic agreement
  • -secretly divided up territory in Eastern Europe

signalled to rest of the world that war was imminent

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stukas

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German dive bomber

  • notable for it’s loud, siren sound
  • -noise intentionally added for psychological warfare
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Ardennes Offensive

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  • surprise attack
  • also known as battle of the bulge
  • -last ditch German offensive to regain territory in France, Belgium
  • -initially successful, then failed when Allies pushed back
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Vichy France

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Area in Southern France that remained relatively autonomous throughout WWII

  • France allowed Nazis to occupy, but were allowed to conduct their own governmental affairs in this region
  • headed by Philippe Petain
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Battle of Britian

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Series of aerial attacks on Britain (by Nazis)

  • -UK prevailed, in large part because of radar
  • –UK spitfire planes also helped
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Operation Barbarossa

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Code name for Germany’s Invasion of the Soviet Union

-began 1941

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Albert Speer

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Nazi architect

-later, in charge of adapting German economy to direct more resources towards the war effort

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Aktion T4

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Killing of people with genetic diseases, mental retardation, other problems

  • often killed in gas chambers, similar to holocaust
  • carried out in secret
  • word got out and program was cancelled
  • many workers from this program were transferred to holocaust death camps
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ghettos

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Contained areas within a city, used to isolate Jews from the rest of the population

  • population kept in with force, armed guards
  • sometimes used for Gypsies (but more often for Jews)
  • often used as holding areas before execution through shooting or gassing
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Final Solution

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Another name for the holocaust

-refers to Nazi plan to kill all Jews

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Auschwitz

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Nazi complex which included labor camps and death camps

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Stalingrad

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  • Major defeat of Germany army (lost to Soviet forces)

- -crushing blow, turning point of WWII

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Dresden

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German city that was destroyed through a short burst of intensive bombing by the allies
-bombing happened towards the end of the war

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Lend Lease

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  • program which allowed FDR, US government to skirt isolation laws and provide military aid to Allied forces
  • -eventually included giving aid to Soviet Union
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Colonel Stauffenberg

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Made assassination attempt on Hitler in July of 1944

-part of a larger resistance movement attempting to overthrow Hitler with a putsch

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Nuremberg Trials

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Trial of prominent Nazis for war crimes

  • soon after WWII
  • included Goring, Hess
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German Christian Movement

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Created by Nazi party.
Tried to merge traditional Christianity and Nazi ideals
Reich Biship Ludwig Muller — German Christian leader

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