Nazi vocab Flashcards
Anti-semitiam
Hatred of the Jews
Mein Kampf
Basic book of nazi goals and ideology
Fuhrer
Strong leader
NAZI
national socialist German workers
Reichstag
Lower house of legislature
Aryan race
Light skinned Europeans
Gestopo
Secret police
Kristallnacht
Night of the broken glass
Concentration camps
Detention centers for civilizations considered enemies of the state
What happened to Germany in the treaty of Versailles?
- Germany takes full blame
- pay allies 30B dollars for destruction
- remove land from western and eastern Germany
- Germany had to give up all colonies
- reduce and limit military size
What is the Weimar Republic?
- a democratic government
- gave women the right to vote
- set up parliamentary system
Problems with Weimar Republic?
- Germany had many small parties
- communists demanded redial changes
- corruption within the government
Who did Germans blame for economic hardships?
German Jews
What did inflation happen in Germany?
- Germany fell behind in reparation payments
- Ruhr refused to work
- gov printed off huge amounts of money
- this made money have less value
How did America help Germany?
- we loaned them money
- Dawes Plan
How did inflation cause the Great Depression?
-Germany was broke
- America cut them off and wanted their money back
- Germany printed more money than they had
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What county was Hitler from?
- Austria
- Austria rejected him as leader
What does NAZI stand for?
- national socialist German workers
Who battled for Germany in the streets?
Storm troopers
What did hitler write about in Mein Kampf?
- extreme nationalism
- racism
- antisemitism
Who is considered a Jew?
-anyone with one Jewish grandparent
How did the Great Depression help hitler rise to power?
- he promised to end reparations, create jobs
- brought back his crowd pleasing speeches
How did hitter get Germany out of the Great Depression?
- thousands of people were put to work
- highways
- housing
- replanted forests
How was hitter like Stalin when he first took power?
- executed NAZI’s he thought were unloyal
- wanted people to obey him without question
- made Germany a one party state
What were Germany’s three reichs?
- medieval Holy Roman Empire
- empire forged by Bismarck
- unite Germany and Austria
What was a totalitarian state like in Germany?
- NAZIs controlled all areas of German life
- as troops enforced law
What was the economic policy to improve Germany?
- he launched a large public works program
- people were put to work building roads and planting
What did hitler teach the German youth?
- they pledged absolute loyalty to Germany
- undertook physical fitness programs to prepare for war
What happens to arts and music in Germany?
- they denounced modern art
- they condemned jazz because of African roots
- burned books
Religion in Germany?
- replaced religion with his own creed
- closed catholic schools
- combined Protestant and sec churches
What are Nuremberg laws?
- prohibited from marrying non Jews
- attending or teaching in German schools
- holding government jobs
- practicing law or medicine
- publishing books
Nuremberg laws?
- night of the broken glass
- young new shot German diplomat
- hitler used it as an excuse to attack Jews
