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What is the definition of the USSR?

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

The first communist country in the world

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What is the definition of abdication?

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Resignation

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What is the definition of the Weimar Government?

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The attempt at democracy in Germany

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What is the definition of provisional?

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Temporary

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What is the definition of Weimar?

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The city where the democratic government was based

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What is the definition of propaganda?

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When the government advertises biased information with the use of visual and oral aids to convince people to think a certain way

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What is the definition of constitution?

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Set of laws

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What is the definition of militarism?

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The belief that a country should maintain a strong army and use it

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What is the definition of devalue?

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Reduce the worth of something

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What is the definition of the Dawes plan?

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An extensive loan from the USA

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What is the definition of the Ruhr valley?

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An area of coal mining in Germany

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What is the definition of Wall Street Crash?

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When the Stock Market in the USA collapsed and severely damaged their economy

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What is the definition of the Great Depression?

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A time of economic recession

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What is the definition of the Nazis

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National Socialist German Workers Party

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What is the definition of a coup(putsch)?

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An attempted overthrow of the government

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What is the definition of Mein Kampf?

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“My struggle” A book written by Hitler that outlined all of his plans for Germnay

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What is the definition of an autocratic centralised government?

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When a country is ruled by a party who is solely in charge

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What is the definition of a Fuhrër?

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Absolute leader

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What is the definition of reich?

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Realm / empire

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What is the definition of lebensraum?

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Living room

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What is the definition of Herrenvolk?

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Pure people

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What is the definition of Aryan?

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What Hitler believed to be the genetically superior race

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What is the definition of purge?

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Cleanse

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What is the definition of the Russian Revolution?

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A time when Russia overthrew the Tsar

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What is the definition of a scapegoat?
Someone to blame
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What is the definition of indoctrinate?
Brainwash a group of people by filling their heads with censored information
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What is the definition of National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei?
Hitler's reformed NAZI party
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What is the definition of violence?
Use of force to harm someone
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What is the definition of the swastika?
The symbol used by the Nazi party
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What is the definition of mass meetings?
When groups,of people would gather to listen to the Nazi's
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What is the definition of an orator?
Someone who can speak in front of people
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What is the definition of sturmabteilung?
Storm trooper/ brown shirts | The general "police force" used by the Nazi's
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What is the definition of the Schutz Staffel?
Black shirts/ secret police | They protected the party leaders and later ran the concentration camps
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What is the definition of the Gestapo?
The secret police used to spy on people
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What is the definition of chancellors?
Prime ministers
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What is the definition of Reichstag?
Parliament
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What is the definition of a decree?
Dictated law
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What is the definition of the Enabling Act?
The decree that abdicated all power to Hitler
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What is the definition of a totalitarian state?
A centralised(exclusive) government system
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What is the definition of dictatorship?
Country governed by a single person
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What is the definition of eradication?
To destroy completely
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What is the definition of Holocaust?
The mass killing of Jews
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What is the definition of annihilate?
Cease to exist, wipe out completely
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What is the definition of armistice?
Agreement between enemies in war to stop fighting so they can discuss peace terms
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What is the definition of atrocities?
Shockingly cruel and inhumane
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What is the definition of authoritarian?
Strict, dictatorial, people have no freedom or say in how government rules, opposite of democracy
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What is the definition of banned?
Forbidden
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What is the definition of a concentration camp?
Those imprisoned were physically "concentrated" in one place
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What is the definition of currency?
Kind of money used in a country
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What is the definition of dictate?
Give commands or orders
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What is the definition of dictator?
A leader with total power
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What is the definition of Einsatzgruppen?
Death squads
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What is the definition of fascist?
A political theory that the government should have complete control
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What is the definition of Fatherland?
What the Germans called their state under the Nazis
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What is the definition of the "Final Solution"?
The name for Germany's plan for the systematic killing of European Jews
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What is the definition of genes?
Chemical codes in the nucleus of every living thing
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What is the definition of genetic modification?
A scientific method that changes the way plants and animals grow and develop
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What is the definition of genocide?
Mass murder
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What is the definition of ideology?
A set of beliefs values and ideas
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What is the definition of internment?
Confinement during wartime
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What is the definition of Jehovah's Witnesses?
A Christian religious group
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What is the definition of a militant?
Supporting the sue of strong pressure, or aggressive action, to achieve one's goals
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What is the definition of opposition?
A group of people who disagree with you
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What is the definition of persecute?
Made to suffer
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What is the definition of racism?
The false idea that certain groups of people are better than others
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What is the definition of Reich?
The German state
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What is the definition of reparations?
Amount of money paid by losing nation to the winners
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What is the definition of repression?
Force or intimidation which prevents people from protesting or rising up
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What is the definition of Roma?
People who speak Romany and who move around in search of work; sometimes called gypsies
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What is the definition of Slavs?
People of Eastern Europe
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What is the definition of The Great Depression?
A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic collapse and mass unemployment

Abi History 2016 (8 decks)

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