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Terminology Flashcards

1
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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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5
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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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14
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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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16
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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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18
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What is the definition of a Fuhrër?

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Absolute leader

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19
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What is the definition of reich?

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Realm / empire

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20
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What is the definition of lebensraum?

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Living room

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21
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What is the definition of Herrenvolk?

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Pure people

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22
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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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23
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What is the definition of purge?

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Cleanse

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24
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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?

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Someone to blame

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What is the definition of indoctrinate?

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Brainwash a group of people by filling their heads with censored information

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27
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What is the definition of National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei?

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Hitler’s reformed NAZI party

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28
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What is the definition of violence?

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Use of force to harm someone

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29
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What is the definition of the swastika?

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The symbol used by the Nazi party

30
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What is the definition of mass meetings?

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When groups,of people would gather to listen to the Nazi’s

31
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What is the definition of an orator?

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Someone who can speak in front of people

32
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What is the definition of sturmabteilung?

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Storm trooper/ brown shirts

The general “police force” used by the Nazi’s

33
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What is the definition of the Schutz Staffel?

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Black shirts/ secret police

They protected the party leaders and later ran the concentration camps

34
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What is the definition of the Gestapo?

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The secret police used to spy on people

35
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What is the definition of chancellors?

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Prime ministers

36
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What is the definition of Reichstag?

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Parliament

37
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What is the definition of a decree?

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Dictated law

38
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What is the definition of the Enabling Act?

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The decree that abdicated all power to Hitler

39
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What is the definition of a totalitarian state?

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A centralised(exclusive) government system

40
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What is the definition of dictatorship?

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Country governed by a single person

41
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What is the definition of eradication?

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To destroy completely

42
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What is the definition of Holocaust?

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The mass killing of Jews

43
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What is the definition of annihilate?

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Cease to exist, wipe out completely

44
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What is the definition of armistice?

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Agreement between enemies in war to stop fighting so they can discuss peace terms

45
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What is the definition of atrocities?

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Shockingly cruel and inhumane

46
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What is the definition of authoritarian?

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Strict, dictatorial, people have no freedom or say in how government rules, opposite of democracy

47
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What is the definition of banned?

48
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What is the definition of a concentration camp?

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Those imprisoned were physically “concentrated” in one place

49
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What is the definition of currency?

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Kind of money used in a country

50
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What is the definition of dictate?

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Give commands or orders

51
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What is the definition of dictator?

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A leader with total power

52
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What is the definition of Einsatzgruppen?

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Death squads

53
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What is the definition of fascist?

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A political theory that the government should have complete control

54
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What is the definition of Fatherland?

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What the Germans called their state under the Nazis

55
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What is the definition of the “Final Solution”?

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The name for Germany’s plan for the systematic killing of European Jews

56
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What is the definition of genes?

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Chemical codes in the nucleus of every living thing

57
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What is the definition of genetic modification?

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A scientific method that changes the way plants and animals grow and develop

58
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What is the definition of genocide?

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Mass murder

59
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What is the definition of ideology?

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A set of beliefs values and ideas

60
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What is the definition of internment?

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Confinement during wartime

61
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What is the definition of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

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A Christian religious group

62
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What is the definition of a militant?

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Supporting the sue of strong pressure, or aggressive action, to achieve one’s goals

63
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What is the definition of opposition?

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A group of people who disagree with you

64
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What is the definition of persecute?

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Made to suffer

65
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What is the definition of racism?

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The false idea that certain groups of people are better than others

66
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What is the definition of Reich?

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The German state

67
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What is the definition of reparations?

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Amount of money paid by losing nation to the winners

68
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What is the definition of repression?

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Force or intimidation which prevents people from protesting or rising up

69
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What is the definition of Roma?

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People who speak Romany and who move around in search of work; sometimes called gypsies

70
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What is the definition of Slavs?

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People of Eastern Europe

71
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What is the definition of The Great Depression?

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A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic collapse and mass unemployment

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