Terms And Concepts Flashcards
Treaty of Versailles
After WWI when the Germans lost the war. The treaty of Versailles was formed to punish the Germans.
Communism/Marxism
The government system to make everyone equal by sharing everything and having no private property.
Socialism
Political and economic system Sharing everything with the community as a whole
Nazism
The idea of a perfect aryan race
Social Darwinism
The theory of survival of the living room
Ideology
The firm belief in an idea to theory
Lebensraum
Living space. The reason the Nazis invaded Russia
Fuhrerprinzip
prescribed the fundamental basis of political authority in the governmental structures of the Third Reich.
The final solution
The last solution to systematically eradicate the Jews by gassing them first with diesel fumes and later zyclon B gas at auchwitz
Kristallnacht
Crystal night. The two nights when German soldiers and citizens destroyed Jewish businesses.
Einsatzgruppen
Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting.
Anti-Semitism
Hate towards Jews
Aryan
The so called super race that hitler wanted to conserve.
Wannsee Conference
Here the Nazi party discussed what was going to be the final solution.
Concentration camps
Where prisoners were sent to work, later turned into death camps
