357028827 | Strength Through Joy | propaganda campaign of the Nazis designed to promote social events & lifestyles of good Aryans | 0 | |
357028828 | Article 48 | this allowed the president of Germany to rule by decree in an emergency | 1 | |
357028829 | Appeasement | Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. | 2 | |
357028830 | Fascism | a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | 3 | |
357028831 | Russian Civil War | 1918-1920: conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. Red vs. White Army. | 4 | |
357028832 | Weimar Republic | The unpopular German republic the in 1921 owed 33 billion annually to the allied reparations commission. In order to recover from its severe economic issues the annual fees were reduced each year depending on the level of German economic prosperity and Germany received large loans each year from the United States. | 5 | |
357028833 | Lateran Treaty | the agreement signed in the Lateran Palace in 1929 by Italy and the Holy See which recognized the Vatican City as a sovereign and independent papal state | 6 | |
357028834 | Neville Chamberlain | British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940) | 7 | |
357028835 | Kulaks | The well off peasants who were starved or shipped to the gulags | 8 | |
357028836 | Ruhr Valley Invasion | When Germany defaulted on their reparation payments(or rather the mark fell to such a low value that payments of 30 billion marks was equal to about 13 american cents) France invaded the industrial distract of German to take out of the mines what they thought the payment should be | 9 | |
357044520 | Kristallnact | "Night of Broken Glass" Anti-Jewish riots of November 9-10 1938. Planned by the German government and the Gestapo. Over 1,000 synagogues were burned, Jewish stores looted and Jewish men arrested | 10 | |
357044521 | Collectivization | system in which private farms were eliminated, instead, the government owned all the land while the peasants worked on it. | 11 | |
357044522 | New Economic Policy | Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private enterprises. Joseph Stalin ended the N.E.P. in 1928 and replaced it with a series of Five-Year Plans. | 12 | |
357044523 | March on Rome | Event in 1922 that displaces King Victor Emmaneul and establishes Mussolini as leader of Italy | 13 | |
357044524 | Purges | What Stalin ordered all who opposed him to be killed or put in prison. millions killed during purges | 14 | |
357044525 | Munich Conference | 1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further. | 15 | |
357044526 | Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact | Agreement between Hitler and Stalin that said they would both invade Poland and not attack one another | 16 | |
357044527 | Five-year plans | Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel, electricity, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state. | 17 | |
357044528 | Battle of Stalingrad | Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union. | 18 | |
357044529 | Normandy Invasion | On 6 June 1944(D-Day), Allied forces which attacked the Normandy coast of France in OperationOverlord | 19 | |
357044530 | War Communism | Civil war Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control | 20 | |
357044531 | Nuremberg Laws | Placed severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books. | 21 | |
357044532 | Mein Kampf | 'My Struggle' by Hitler, later became the basic book of Nazi goals and ideology, reflected obsession | 22 | |
357044533 | "Socialism in one country" | Policy adopted by Stalin in the autumn of 1924, in which the notion of a worldwide socialist revolution was abandoned in favor of making the Soviet Union a successful socialist state. | 23 | |
357044534 | Lebenstraum | (living space)-Idea that Germany needed to expand eastward to secure the healthy growth of the Aryan race. | 24 | |
357044535 | Spanish Civil War | civil war in Spain in which fascist General Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government | 25 | |
357044536 | "Our Finest Hour!" | 3rd speech of Winston Churchill to House of Commons on June 16th after France called for an Armistice | 26 | |
357044537 | Dunkirk | a city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire | 27 | |
357044538 | Vinchy | used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers | 28 | |
357044539 | Maginot Line | a fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border | 29 | |
357044540 | Blitzkrieg | German lightning warfare. Characterized by high mobility and concentrated forces at point of attack. | 30 | |
357044541 | Reichstag Fire | Fire Hitler blamed on the communists, though most likely had his storm troopers start, allowed Hitler to rule by decree as described in article 48 | 31 | |
357044542 | Blackshirts | Members of Italian fascists before WWII. It was led by Mussolini. Helped solidify Mussolini's control | 32 | |
357044543 | Brownshirts | hitler's brown-uniformed paramilitary force in the 20s/30s | 33 | |
357044544 | Checka | Secret Police set up by Lenin to help the Bolshevik revolution | 34 | |
357044545 | Gustave Stresseman | served as Prime minister and stabilized the economy and encouraged growth | 35 | |
357044546 | Hitler's cycle | Child like cycle consisting of whining and appeasement. | 36 |
AP EURO REVIEW: Totalitarianism and World War Two Flashcards
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