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Stufflet Euro U8P2

U8P2 Euro

TermDefinition
radical totalitarian dictatorship regime whose purpose is to gain TOTAL control over the masses of people and mobilize them to CHANGE society
New Economic Policy Lenin's program of limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry
nationalization when the government takes over all industrial production
collectivization when the government takes over all agricultural production
Five Year Plans Stalin's plans of forced nationalization and collectivization whose purpose it was to stimulate the Soviet economy
Lebensraum literally means "living space"; idea that Germany needed to expand its territory
Weimar Republic government of Germany from 1919 to 1933
Dachau 1st Nazi concentration camp; created to imprison political opponents of Nazis
SS originally Hitler's "protection squads"; later ran concentration and death camps
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact agreement that allowed Hitler to avoid a two front war and gave Germany and the USSR pieces of Poland
appeasement British policy of granting Hitler most things he wanted in order to avoid war
Francisco Franco dictator of Spain
Munich Conference meeting in which the Sudetenland was given to Hitler and Nazi Germany
Vichy France French government that was friendly to the Nazis after the German defeat of France
Operation Barbarossa German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
Battle of Stalingrad turning point of the war on the eastern front; Soviet victory
Nuremberg Laws laws that defined who a Jew was and that denied German Jews of their citizenship
Kristallnacht 1938; first organized attack on German Jews; resulted in Jewish emigration
Auschwitz largest of 6 Nazi death camps in Poland
John Maynard Keynes British economist who argued for more government intervention during economic downturns
Popular Front partnership of socialists, communists, and moderates to fight off fascists in France
Roma nomadic group; known as Gypsies; subject to Nazi racial persecution
Wannsee Conference meeting at which the mass murder of European Jews was organized
Winston Churchill British Prime Minister during World War II
Blitzkrieg "lightning war"; new method of warfare meant to avoid static war of World War I
kulaks capitalist peasants in Ukraine; killed off by Stalin
gulag Soviet work camp
Guernica Picasso's famous painting depicting bombing of Basque town in Spain during Spanish Civil War
Joseph Goebbels Nazi Minister of Propaganda
Leni Riefenstahl German filmmaker and propagandist for the Nazis
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