holocaust Flashcards
Totalitarianism
A political system where the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control aspects of pulbic and private life whenever necessary
Communism
Social, political, and economical system that creats a classless society
Nazism
Belief that the Aryan race is the master race, fascist, tolitarian, and nationalistic
Lebensraum
Germany ovepopulated, more LIVING SPACE
Fascism
Intense nationalism, interests of state are more important than individual rights
March on Rome
Mussolini ans 30,000 fascists marched on Rome for power
Mussolini took power legally
lll Duce
abolished slavery, outlawed all opposing political parties, secret police, censorship
Mussolini took power legally
Nazi
a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Socialist German Workers Party
Anti-Government political party that Hitler becomes head of
Mein Kampf
Hitlers book he wrote in prison about his beliefs
Aryan master race, Jews and Gypsies were inferior, Versailles treaty was an outrage
Reichstag
A fore magically occurs in Reichstag building and destroys it completely
Hitler blames communists and stirred up fear
Anti-Semitism
Prejudice, discrimination, or hatred against Jews
Hirohito
emperor during Japan’s militaristic period from the early 1930s to 1945, the end of World War II.
Manchuria
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
Rape of Nanjing
the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” massacred an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process.
Beer Hall Putsch
was a failed coup d’état by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich,
Propaganda
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause in this case Hitler
Nuremburg Laws
antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935,
Enabling Act
was a law that gave the German Cabinet—most importantly, the Chancellor—the powers to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg.
Kristallnacht
the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property.
Gestapo
German secret police under control of Heinrich Himmler. Heinrich Himmler. German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945)
