History WW1 & WW2

Question 1

Concentration camps

Answer 1

Prison camps where ppl beaten, tortured, starved & used as slave labour

Question 2

Hyperinflation

Answer 2

Extreme rise in prices that loses any real value

Question 3

Left wing

Answer 3

Of parties, ideologies & individuals eg: communists & socialists. That want greater political equality

Question 4

Paramilitary

Answer 4

Armed forces outside official military

Question 5

Reichstag

Answer 5

German parliament

Question 6

Right wing

Answer 6

Of parties, ideologies & individuals whose political beliefs range from conservative to fascist

Question 7

Weimar Republic

Answer 7

Democratic system of govt in Germany from 1919 to early 1933 so called coz its constitution was written in the city of Weimar

Question 8

Putch

Answer 8

An attempt to seize political power by force

Question 9

Radicals

Answer 9

Person who advocates promote) fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions or institutions

Question 10

Reparations

Answer 10

Payments as compensation for damage caused

Question 11

Main features of fascism

Answer 11

• Intense nationalism, often w/ desire for nation to expand its territory
• support for imperialism: policy by which country increases its power by gaining control of other countries
• believing some races superior than others

Question 12

Aryan

Answer 12

Term used by nazis to describe ‘pure-blooded’ Germanic people’s