Unit 8 Hitler Flashcards
Ethnic cleansing
Explosion of a population
Hitlers 3 plans
- Nazis began to force Jews to leave
- Hitler orders Jews to live in controlled ghettos
- Final solution
Final solution
Extermination of Jews
Genocide
Systematic killing of and entire group of people
Who did hitler kill besides Jews
Gypsies, poles, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, disable and the ill
6 death camps
Chelmo (1st) Treblinka Sobibor Majdanek Belzec Aushwitz
Reinhard Hedrick
Leading planner of hitlers final solution
Adolf eichmann
“Jewish specialist” responsible for keeping the trains rolling from all of Europe to concentration camps
Non aggression pact
Hitler and Stalin agree to sign and split Poland
Blitzkrieg
Lightening war,
Fast moving airplanes & tanks followed by massive infantry forces
Winston Churchill
Prime minister “ we shall never surrender”
Battle of Britain
Forced, hitter admired Britain,
Intense German bombing to knock out the RAF
Operation Barbarossa
Hitlers invasion of Russia, destroyed everything in their path
Neutrality act
The U.S. Had signed this act to stay out of the war
December 7th 1941
Japan bongs Pearl Harbor, U.S. Enters ww2
3 radical ideas
Boycott goods
Relocate
Clean up undesirables
Anti semitism
Hostility towards Jews
SS
Protective echelon. The black uniform elite, small personal body guards
Heinrich himmler
Headed the SS on of hurlers close officers
Storm troopers
Private militia, brown shirts
Gestapo
Political police force, eliminated opposition to the nazi (CIA)
Rounded up the Jews
Kristallnacht
Violence against Jews in their homes and back streets “ night of rampage”
Weimar Republic
Germany’s post ww1 democratic government.
Socialism
Economic system in which production is owned by the public and operates for the welfare of all
Fascism
System that emphasized loyalty to state and obedience to leader
2 promises of fascism
Punish those responsible for hard times
Restore national pride
Nazi stands for
National socialist German workers party
Der fuehrer
Leader of nazi
Mein kampf
States beliefs and goals for Germany,
Wanted to retain lands lost in ww1
Needed to expand
Aryans
Master race
Paul Von Hindenburg
President of Germany
Nuremberg trials
International military tribunal, put nazi leader on trail for aggression, violates of the rules of war and crimes against humanity.