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Define stock market

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A place where people buy and sell shares in big businesses

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Define 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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Define inflation

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An increase in the price of goods

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What did the American government do for the Weimar government

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Lent money to them to help the German economy to recover after WW1

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Where was the American stock market

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In New York

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Where Is the new York stock market situated

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Wall Street

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When did the Wallstreet stock market collapse

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1929

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What did the stock market crashing mean

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The stocks that people had bought on the stock market, no longer had any value

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How was Germany affected by the great depression

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Blanks closed
Factories closed
Workers lost their Jobs
Inflation rose

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Read through pg 111

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Define reichstag

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German word for parliament

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Define Chancellor

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Another word for the leader of the reichstag

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Define authoritarian

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

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Who was allowed to vote for Germany in the New government

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People over the age of 20 had the vote

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How did the election work

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There were separate elections for the for the reichstag(parliament) and for the head of state, the president.

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What was the leader of the reichstag called

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Chancellor

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17
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Define propaganda

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Biased information

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18
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Define dictator

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A leader with total power

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19
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Define Der fuhrer

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German words for “the leader”

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Define Reich

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The German state

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21
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Define fatherland

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What the Germans called their state under the nazis

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Concentration camp

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Those imprisoned were physically “concentrated” in one place

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Define scapegoat

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Someone who is blamed and punished for the misfortune of others

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Define holocaust

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The mass killing of the Jews in nazi Germany

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Define Jehovah’s witnesses

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A Christian religious group

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Define persecuted

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Made to suffer

27
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Define Roma

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

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Define slavs

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People of eastern Europe

29
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Define fascist

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A political theory that the government should have complete control

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Define lebensraum

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A German word meaning space to live in

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Define mein kampf

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Book by hitler explaining his political views

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Define genocide

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Mass murder

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Define extermination

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Killing

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Define annihilate

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Cease to exist, wipe out completely

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Define einsatzgruppen

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Death squads

36
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Define “final solution”

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The name for nazi germany’s plan for the systematic killing of European jews

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Why did the Weimar government fail

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Germany did not have a history of democracy. It had been ruled by a kaiser and Germany was used to authoritarian leadership.
The system of democracy was not fully supported by many judges, the powerful military and big business.
There were many political parties in Germany. No party could win a complete majority of seats in the reichstag. This meant that the Weimar Republic did not have a strong enough government to deal with Germany’s problems

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When were the elections in Germany

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1932-1933

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What did the nazi party bame the Weimar government for

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The severe punishments and humiliation of the treaty of Versailles. They believed Germany was not really defeated, and that the German people had been stabed in the back by the weimer government

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Why did publi support increase for the nazi party

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Many Germans wanted to return to being an important world power.

Hitler’s nazi party received financial support from some in the military, and from earthy businessmen

Hiter was a brilliant public speaker. He could hold many peoples attention

The nazi party was very organized. The nazi propaganda led people to believe that the nazi party could save them from their troubles

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When was the enabling act

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1933

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What did the enabling act do

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Gave complete power to hitler and the nazi party. The nazi party became the only political party allowed to exist in Germany

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Who was president at this time

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Von hindenburg

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Who signed the enabling act into law

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Von hindenhurg

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When did von hindenburg die

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1934

46
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What positions did hitler combine

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Chancellor and president

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Why were concentration camps created

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To house political opponents. In 1933 there were mass arrests of political opponents. There were soon so many people I jail that Germany’s prisons became overcrowded

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Where was the first concentration camp

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Dachau

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Describe what dachau looked like

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A arge barbed wore enclosure where prisoners had to do hard abour and military drills and got regular beatings

50
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When were the Nuremberg laws

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1935

51
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Define Aryan

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The pure German race

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How did propaganda lead to the holocaust

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After years of being told that jews were evil, it became easier for Germans to accept in 1935 what they would have rejected in 1920

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What did jews have to wear

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Yellow star of David

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What did political opponents wear

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Red triangles

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What did jehovah’s witnesses wear

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Purple triangle

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What did homosexuals wear

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Pink traingle

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What did Roma wear

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Brown triangle

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What did criminals wear

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A green triangle

59
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Read through features of fascism on pg 116

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