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Unit 9 Craig/Donahay
based on study guide and my notes
Definition | Term |
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14 points, freedom of seas, restore conquered lands, self determination, and League of Nations. | USA goals after WWI |
Status quo ante (how it was before the war) | Britain goals after WWI |
Revenge and reparations | France goals after WWI |
Irredenta (reclaim land) | Italy goals after WWI |
War guilt clause blames Germany. Germany must pay billions in reparations, demilitarize, and lose territories. | Terms of the Treaty of Versailles |
Government controls all/many aspects of the citizen's private lives. for example controlling # of children, hair cuts, religion, etc. | Totalitarianism |
Type of totalitarian government that is ultra nationalist. It glorifies the military and dying for one's country. Government controls the economy. Top down strict class structure. The Nazi government was this. | Fascism |
Supposed to be a classless system where all are equal and the people have the power. (doesn't seem to pan out that way in real life) Used in the Soviet Union | Communism |
System where the people have the power to join parties and vote for leaders. Germany's Weimar republic (right after WWI) was this and the US also uses this system. | Democracy |
Democratic system of government. larger districts, several seats assigned proportionally, vote for party's slate of candidates, favors many parties, only need significant minority of support, more democratic less stable | Parliamentary system |
Democratic system of government. small districts, 1 seat for winner, vote individual candidates, favors a 2 party system, popular vote, less democratic more stable. | Winner-Take-All |
Failed coup by the Nazi party that was inspired by Mussolini's March on Rome. Fell apart due to miscommunication. Ended in Hitler being jailed where he wrote his book Mein Kampf | Beer Hall Putsch |
How the Nazis disposed of books written by Jews, communists or other authors/books they seamed to be undesirable. | Book burning |
Nazi faction for children and teenagers. Split into 2 groups 1 for boys and one for girls (League of German Girls). The boys group glorified military girls group glorified historic women's roles. | Hitler youth |
A belief in a "pure german race" super racist. blond hair blue eyes. Goes along with Lebensraum the belief that the "best" race needs to expand and conquer. | Aryanism |
Many Austrians identify as German. Austria had a vote to see if they should join Germany. They voted yes. | Anschluss |
German irredenta. Germany wants the land in Czechoslovakia that had a large population of people that identified as German. Germany invaded and other countries had to decide whether this was an act of war. | Sudetenland Crisis |
Appeasement to the Sudetenland Crisis. Britain, France, and Germany decide that Czechoslovakia must surrender Sudetenland to the Nazis | Munich Pact |
The secret agreement between Soviet Union and Germany where they agreed not to attack each other and to split up poland between them. | Molotov-Ribbentrop pact |
Antisemitic and racist laws that were made to "preserve a pure German race" Nazis defined who they considered to be jews. Made it so you would be punished if you married outside of the Aryan race. illegal for jews to teach or to work in hospitals | Nuremberg laws |
Nations gathered to decide what to do about German/Austrian Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis. Ended up deciding nothing. | Evian Conference |
"Night of Broken Glass" state sponsered destruction of Jewish homes and Businesses. Imprisoned many Jewish men this night and killed many Jewish people. | Kristallnacht |
The systematic killing and physical annihilation of Jews by the Nazis. Himmler was a big part of this. Ended in the deaths of around 6 million Jews. Used gas chambers, starvation, firing squads, death marches and many other systems of killing these people | The Final solution |
When Nazi leaders met together to decide the "Final solution" | Wannsee Conference |
The German government right after WWI. Was Democratic. Germans resented this government for signing the Treaty of Versailles. Didn't last very long. | Weimar Republic |
Not the great depression. German government printed more money to help with its money problem but this backfired. Made German money practically useless. Germany took a $200 million loan from the US to try and solve this. | Hyperinflation of 1923-1924 |
Also known as the Pact of Paris. Was an agreement to outlaw war and hopefully never have another World War. Didn't end up working very well and WWII still happened | Kellogg-Briand pact |
Nazi political leader. Was rejected by art school. When WWI happened he was rejected by the Austrian army and so he joined the German army (they would basically take anyone). Killed himself at the end of the war. Wrote Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
Belief that Germany must expand. Believed that Germans were the best race and deserved more land. | Lebensraum |
This was the belief that Germany did not lose in the battle front but in the home front. They said that Jews, and communists, etc did not support the war enough and that is why Germany lost WWI | Stab in the back |
What the Nazis called their leader | Fuhrer |
Nazi's idolization of their leader. Seeing Hitler as the savior of Germany. | Cult of der Fuhrer |
America lends money to Germany, Germany pays reparations to France, France pays back loans to USA | Dawes plan |