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Fascism

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A form of totalitism that emphasize the national and racial superiority. (Italy-Mussolini)

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Nazism

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Extreme form of fascism that emphasizes not only national but racial superiority.

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Communism

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A government that creates a classless society.

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Anti-Semitism

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Hostility, prejudice and hatred towards members of the Jewish race.

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Fasces

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Original Sin look for Italian fascism, ancient Roman some overpowered used by the national fascist party of Italy.

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Swastika

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Nazi party argued that the swastika I was a symbol of the Aryan race. The swastika represented the third Reich. Red = social idea
white = national idea
black = aryan struggle

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German workers party (DAP)

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A right wing political party founded by Anton Drexler. Hitler join the party in 1919 after freight in World War I.

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NSDAP

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1920 German workers party is renamed national Socialist German workers party a.k.a. Nazi which is short form for “national socialist”.

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Anton Drexler

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Original founder of the German workers party (DAP) which is later taken over by Adolf Hitler.

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Adolf Hitler

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Leader of the Nationalist Socialist German workers party (NSDAP).

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The third Reich

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The 1000 year Reich

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Munich Putsch (Beer Hall Putsch)

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Feels not see attempt to overthrow the government (Reichstag) causing Hitler to be imprisoned where he writes “mein kampf”

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Reichstag

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The German government building.

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Schutzstaffel

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A.k.a. SS, blackshirts. Hitler’s personal force.

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Gestapo

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A.k.a. SA, brown shirts. Nazi party force.

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Mein kampf

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Hitler’s book which is translated into “my struggle”, and was written in prison. The book outlines his racial ideology and vision for Germany.

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Reichstag fire

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Hitler set fire to the Reichstag and blamed communist to gain power, giving him justification.

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Benito Mussolini

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Leader of the national fascist party (1922-1943).

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Black shirts

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Violently suppressed all oppositions (political opponents).

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March on Rome

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Commences the king through intimidation to appoint him as prime minister.

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Rome-Berlin Axis

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Hitler and Mussolini made an agreement to respect each other’s area of influence and protect each other.

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Stab-in-the-back myth

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A believe spread by the Nazis that the German army did not lose World War I but instead betrayed by the homefront who “surrendered”. Specifically, Nazi targeted Jews, are you doing they control the economic factors on the home front and were therefore to blame.

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Lebensraum

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“Living space”. Hitler’s vision is to create a German empire called “the third Reich”.

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Appeasement

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A policy of trying to stop aggressive behavior by giving the aggressor what is wanted.

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Rhineland

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A non-military zone and region between France and Germany acted as a “buffer” between two countries.

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Phony war

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The period between the allies declaration of war against Germany and the beginning of actual fighting.

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning warfare, overwhelmed the enemy by attacking a specific area with combined support from air and ground forces (planes, tanks and artillery troops) in order to penetrate deep into the enemy territory and disrupt enemy defenses and communications.

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Maginot line

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A series of concrete, “trench-like” defenses along the French-German border which were never used.

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Vichy France

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Germany occupied northern and western France, including Paris. Southern France was given a “puppet government” in the town of Vichy. NOT independent, Vichy friends was still controlled by Germany.

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Operation Barbarosa

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Codename for Germany’s planned invasion on the Soviet union beginning in 1941. Hitler disregarded the warning of the Schlieffen plan by involving the Soviet union with over 3 million troops and 3000 tanks resulting in to friend war.

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the blitz

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Redirected bombing raids from Braden air feels to the capital city of London for 57 nights.

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Royal Air Force (RAF)

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Britain’s Air Force.

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Luftwaffe

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Germany’s Air Force. Doublecheck

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Wehrmacht

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Army of Germany.

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Herman Goring

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Commander and chief of the luftwaffe in World War II, one of the most important officials in Hitler’s third Reich.

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Isolationism

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The policy of a country to refrain from getting involved in foreign affairs with other nations (including wars, economic, trade agreements and alliances).

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Red army

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The army of Soviet union

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Death marches

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German POWs forced to walk to prison of labor, camps across Soviet union, many freeze to death.

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Mouse holing

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New military strategy developed by Canadians based on door-to-door combat, blast a hole through the sidewall, drop grenades, enter the house and repeat.

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Operation overload

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Codename for the battle of Normandy, the allied plan to launch a successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. Launching from Britain, the allies would send a massive coalition of military and naval forces across the English channel to the beaches of Normandy in France. Largest military/naval invasion and history of the modern warfare.

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“The beaches”

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Each allegation was responsible for capturing a different beach.
USA: Omaha (bloodiest & heaviest)
          Utah
Britain: Gold
             Sword
Canada: Juno

Canada push the Nazis farthest back.

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The Rhine offensive

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175,000 Canadian soldiers liberated the Dodge from German occupation. Large is assembled Canadian assault force in history. Since World War II, the Dutch have shared a close relationship with Kendra due to the role-play but Canadians in the liberation of the Netherlands.

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V-E Day

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Victory in Europe, Germany surrenders, ending the war in Europe.

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V-P day

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B-29 bomber drops little boy on the city of Hiroshima, killing 70,000 people. Second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. Japan surrenders unconditional. World War II is over!

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Little boy

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The atomic bomb use as a weapon on Japan.

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Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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Two cities that were bombed in World War II in Japan

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Holocaust

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A term used describe the systematic mass murder of the European Jews during World War II by Nazi Germans and its collaborators.

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Heinrich Himmler

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Commander of the SS, top supervisor in charge of the final solution. Extermination of the Jews “page of glory in German history”.

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Kristallnacht

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Anti-Jewish riots in cities across Germany and Austria, nearly 100 Jews killed, thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues are damaged, and roughly 30,000 Jews are rested.

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Ghetto

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And impoverished and isolated section of a city in habited by a particular group of people. By 1940 400,000 Jews living in ghettos with the yellow Star of David.

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Final solution

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“The final solution to the Jewish question”, the plan was a systematic execution of ALL, by concentration camps and gas chambers. The gas that was used was zyclone b.

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Operation Reinhard

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Notsi plant tomato all Jews of occupied Poland.

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Action T4

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Nazi euthanasia program for “life unworthy of life”, considered a form of “racial hygiene”. People euthanized physical/mental disabilities, the sick or incurable.

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Dr. Joseph Menegele

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Nazi SS officer and “Doctor” (a.k.a. Angel of death) conducted experiments on the Jews. Nazi experiments included sterilization of women, mutilation/amputation, the question practice (what would happen if). e.g. high altitude, cold, poison infections and conjoined twins. Expectations was that vitals would die after experiments and they would be gassed when the experiments concluded.

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Nuremberg trials

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A series of anti-Semitic laws passed by the Nazis that provided “Scientific” justification for discrimination against the Jews. Significance all human rights taken away from the Jews.

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Joseph Goebbels

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Responsible for sharing German public opinion, supporting total war and fueling anti-Semitism.

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Plebiscite

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A special vote on specific proposal.

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War brides

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British and European woman who met their Canadian husbands while Canadian forces were station in Britain and Europe during world war two and who later immigrated to Canada.

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Master race (Aryan)

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All four grandparents are “pure” Germans.

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Totalitarianism

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Restricts individual rates makes everyone subordinate to the government.

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