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