Key Terms

Question 1

Trade union

Answer 1

An organisation of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests.

Question 2

Industrialisation

Answer 2

The period of social and economic change that transforms a farming society into an industrial one.

Question 3

Socialism

Answer 3

When the government owns and controls factories and distribution of goods.

Question 4

Monarchy

Answer 4

When a king or queen is in charge.

Question 5

Reichstag

Answer 5

The German Houses of Parliament.

Question 6

Socialist

Answer 6

Someone who fights for their beliefs and power for the people.

Question 7

Abdicate

Answer 7

Giving up throne.

Question 8

Revolution

Answer 8

An extreme and violent way to take over the government by force.

Question 9

Diktat

Answer 9

Dictated peace - forced peace (on Germany: Treaty of Versailles).

Question 10

Reparations

Answer 10

Compensation that a country (Germany) has to pay to others (e.g. UK and France) for repairs to land etc.

Question 11

Armistice

Answer 11

An agreement to stop fighting (this happened before ToV).

Question 12

Right-wing

Answer 12

Belief in having one powerful leader with all of the power.

Question 13

Left-wing

Answer 13

Belief in letting people have a say and sharing power equally.

Question 14

Free corps

Answer 14

Ex-soldiers, right-wing extremists, believe in law and order.

Question 15

Communist

Answer 15

Believe power and property should be shared equally between everyone - extreme left-wing.

Question 16

Spartacus league

Answer 16

A political party, named after Spartacus - a Greek God.

Question 17

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 17

An agreement between winning countries on what would happen to Germany after World War I.

Question 18

Hyperinflation

Answer 18

Money losing its value very quickly.

Question 19

Kapp putsch

Answer 19

The rebellion led by Wolfgang Kapp, from a right-wing party.

Question 20

Nationalist

Answer 20

Someone who is proud about their country and strongly believes in it.

Question 21

Rentenmark

Answer 21

The new currency brought in to Germany by Stresseman to solve the problem of hyperinflation.

Question 22

League of Nations

Answer 22

An international organisation aimed a peacekeeping - Germany was not allowed in.

Question 23

Munich Putsch

Answer 23

Rebellion led by Nazi party in 1924 - was unsuccessful.

Question 24

Propaganda

Answer 24

Using different methods of persuasion to persuade people to do something.

Question 25

Castration

Answer 25

A method of torture used by Nazis: removal of men’s testicles to stop reproduction.

Question 26

Untermench

Answer 26

Subhuman - people who Nazis thought were inferior.

Question 27

Extermination camps

Answer 27

Death camps.

Question 28

Holocaust

Answer 28

The Nazis attempt to wipe out the Jewish race.

Question 29

Einsatzgruppen

Answer 29

Nazi soldiers who went out looking for Jews.

Question 30

The final solution

Answer 30

The mass murder of all the Jews on German territory.

Question 31

Genocide

Answer 31

Mass murder.

Question 32

Militarism

Answer 32

Belief that a country should have strong armed forces.