Unit 18 Part 2 Flashcards

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1
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government of Germany from 1919 to 1933

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Weimar Republic

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2
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law passed by Nazis that gave Hitler dictatorial powers

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Enabling Act

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3
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1st Nazi concentration camp; created to imprison political opponents of Nazis

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Dachau

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private para-military force of Nazis; intimidated political and racial opponents

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SA (Brownshirts)

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originally Hitler’s “protection squads”; later ran concentration and death camps

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SS

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6
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Nazi Germany’s takeover of Austria

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Anschluss

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German-speaking portion of Cechoslovakia

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Sudetenland

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8
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agreement that allowed Hitler to avoid a two front war and gave Germany and the USSR pieces of Poland

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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

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9
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established ratios for British and German navies; implied Germany was allowed to re-arm

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Anglo-German Naval Agreement

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10
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British policy of granting Hitler most things he wanted in order to avoid war

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appeasement

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11
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dictator of Spain

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Francisco Franco

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12
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meeting in which the Sudetenland was given to Hitler and Nazi Germany

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Munich Conference

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13
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Polish city that Hitler demanded from Poland in 1939

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Danzig

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14
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French port the British were trapped at before their withdrawal to Britain

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Dunkirk

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French government that was friendly to the Nazis after the German defeat of France

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Vichy France

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16
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French leader of Vichy France

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Henri Petain

17
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Air battle between Royal Air Force (RAF) and German Luftwaffe over English Channel for control of skies

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Battle of Britain

18
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German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

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Operation Barbarossa

19
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turning point of the war on the eastern front; Soviet victory

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Battle of Stalingrad

20
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code name for the Allied invasion of northern France in June 1944

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Operation Overlord

21
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laws that defined who a Jew was and that denied German Jews of their citizenship

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Nuremberg Laws

22
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1938; first organized attack on German Jews; resulted in Jewish emigration

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Kristallnacht

23
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the Nazi plan to murder EVERY Jew in Europe in a systematic way (murdered 6 million)

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Final Solution

24
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largest of 6 Nazi death camps in Poland

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Auschwitz

25
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leader of Nazi SS

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Heinrich Himmler