Unit 18 Part 2 Flashcards
government of Germany from 1919 to 1933
Weimar Republic
law passed by Nazis that gave Hitler dictatorial powers
Enabling Act
1st Nazi concentration camp; created to imprison political opponents of Nazis
Dachau
private para-military force of Nazis; intimidated political and racial opponents
SA (Brownshirts)
originally Hitler’s “protection squads”; later ran concentration and death camps
SS
Nazi Germany’s takeover of Austria
Anschluss
German-speaking portion of Cechoslovakia
Sudetenland
agreement that allowed Hitler to avoid a two front war and gave Germany and the USSR pieces of Poland
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
established ratios for British and German navies; implied Germany was allowed to re-arm
Anglo-German Naval Agreement
British policy of granting Hitler most things he wanted in order to avoid war
appeasement
dictator of Spain
Francisco Franco
meeting in which the Sudetenland was given to Hitler and Nazi Germany
Munich Conference
Polish city that Hitler demanded from Poland in 1939
Danzig
French port the British were trapped at before their withdrawal to Britain
Dunkirk
French government that was friendly to the Nazis after the German defeat of France
Vichy France
French leader of Vichy France
Henri Petain
Air battle between Royal Air Force (RAF) and German Luftwaffe over English Channel for control of skies
Battle of Britain
German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
Operation Barbarossa
turning point of the war on the eastern front; Soviet victory
Battle of Stalingrad
code name for the Allied invasion of northern France in June 1944
Operation Overlord
laws that defined who a Jew was and that denied German Jews of their citizenship
Nuremberg Laws
1938; first organized attack on German Jews; resulted in Jewish emigration
Kristallnacht
the Nazi plan to murder EVERY Jew in Europe in a systematic way (murdered 6 million)
Final Solution
largest of 6 Nazi death camps in Poland
Auschwitz
leader of Nazi SS
Heinrich Himmler
