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Weimar Republic

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Name of germany between end of WWII and Hitler’s rise to power

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Totalitarianism

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Political ideology involving power centralization, complete control of daily life, ruling by force

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Fascism

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National superiority, a type of totalitarianism

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Nazism

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Turbo-fascism believing in racial superiority as well

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Communism

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Believes all people are equal and state owns means of production. No concept of class or ownership

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Fasces

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Bundle of sticks and an axe symbolizing power over life and death, symbol of fascism

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Swastika

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Symbol of nazism adopted from Buddhism

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German Workers Party

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Precursor to the Nazi party

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NSDAP

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Nazi party

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Anton Drexler

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Founded the nazi party, succeeded by Hitler

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Mein Kampf

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“My struggle” the book Hitler wrote while in jail for forming a coup, describing the ideas of Nazism and how much he hated jewish people

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Third Reich

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Hitler’s imaginary german empire that would supposedly last for 1000 years

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Munich/Beer Hall Putsch

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Hitler’s failed coup to overthrow the reichstag which led to his arrest

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Reichstag

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German parlaiment

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Gestapo

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Nazi police

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SA and SS

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Turbo-nazi officers. SA is brown shirts, the lower ranks who were liquidated due to Hitler’s paranoia. The SS are the elites who were personally chosen as the best Nazis.

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Hitler youth

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Hitler’s indoctrination after-school club

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Wehmract

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German army

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Luftwaffe

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Nazi air force

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Einsatzgruppen

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SS death squads who personally killed Jewish people in big numbers

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Lebensraum

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“living room” nazi goal for obtaining more space to live

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Volk

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German people

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Adolf Hitler

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Oh come on. You know this.

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Joseph Goebbels

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Owned the ministry of public enlightenment (propaganda)

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Heinrich Himmler

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Head of the SS, chief overseer of of the final solution

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Herman Goering

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Commander of the Luftwaffe

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Adolf Eichmann

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Architect of the Holocaust

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Benito Mussolini

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italy’s fascist leader who came to power through force. Wanted to create a rome-style empire by allying with Hitler but got obliterated in the Battle of Italy

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Brown Shirts

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Another name for the SS

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Black Shirts

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Mussolini’s equivalent of the SS, responsible for keeping Italians in line through force

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Stab in the back myth

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Nazi myth explaining that Germany lost WWI because the Jewish people betrayed them

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Appeasement

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Europe didn’t interfere with Hitler to avoid a war: annex Sudetenland, the Anschluss, rebuild military, stop reparationsT

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The Anschluss

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Example of Appeasement. Hitler formed a coalition with Austria.

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Neville Chamberlain

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British Prime Minister who appeased Hitler (following the people’s wishes)

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Winston Churchill

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New British PM who was against appeasement. Stayed as PM for whole of WWII

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Munich Agreement

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When Hitler annexed the Sudetenland, he agreed not to make any more territorial demands. Spoiler: he made more demands

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American Isolationism

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America vowed not to get involved in wars that did not personally concern them.

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Phony War

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8-month period at the beginning of WWII when no actual fighting occured. Hitler took over most of Europe in this time.

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Non-Agression Pact

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Pact between USSR and Germany to not invade each other or ally with each others’ enemies. It was actually a secret plan to divide Europe into Soviet and Nazi spheres of influence.

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Blitzkrieg

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German military strategy where all forces were focused on one part of enemy lines, basically cutting a deep wound. Very different from trench warfare.

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Maginot Line

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National embarassment for France who fortified this line across the German-French border, but, like WWI, Germant went through Belgium instead

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Vichy France

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The Nazis’ puppet government in South France

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RAF

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Royal Air Force

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RCAF

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Royal Canadian Air Force

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The Blitz

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Germany bombing during the Battle of Britain

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Pearl Harbour

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Japan attacked a US naval base in Hawaii destroying 12 warships and killing 2000, leading FDR to declare war on Japan and its allies

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Mouseholing

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Strategy used in WWII in the battle of Italy by Canadians, blowing small holes in walls and throwing bombs through to clear buildings at record speed

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D-Day

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Successful allied plan to gain a foothold in Europe by attacking Nazi-operated Normandy beaches

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“The Beaches”

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Canada got Juno Beach. US and Britian got two other beaches each. They were attempting

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