holocaust Flashcards

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Totalitarianism

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A political system where the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control aspects of pulbic and private life whenever necessary

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Communism

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Social, political, and economical system that creats a classless society

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Nazism

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Belief that the Aryan race is the master race, fascist, tolitarian, and nationalistic

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Lebensraum

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Germany ovepopulated, more LIVING SPACE

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Fascism

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Intense nationalism, interests of state are more important than individual rights

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March on Rome

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Mussolini ans 30,000 fascists marched on Rome for power

Mussolini took power legally

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lll Duce

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abolished slavery, outlawed all opposing political parties, secret police, censorship
Mussolini took power legally

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Nazi

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a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

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Socialist German Workers Party

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Anti-Government political party that Hitler becomes head of

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Mein Kampf

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Hitlers book he wrote in prison about his beliefs

Aryan master race, Jews and Gypsies were inferior, Versailles treaty was an outrage

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Reichstag

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A fore magically occurs in Reichstag building and destroys it completely
Hitler blames communists and stirred up fear

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Anti-Semitism

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Prejudice, discrimination, or hatred against Jews

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Hirohito

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emperor during Japan’s militaristic period from the early 1930s to 1945, the end of World War II.

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Manchuria

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when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.

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Rape of Nanjing

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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.

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Beer Hall Putsch

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was a failed coup d’état by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich,

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Propaganda

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information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause in this case Hitler

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Nuremburg Laws

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antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935,

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Enabling Act

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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.

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Kristallnacht

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the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property.

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Gestapo

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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)