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Dictatorship and De2
German Through WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Armed strikes and uprisings by German communists in 1919 that ended in defeat for the communists. | Spartacist Uprising |
| An aborted 1923 attempt by Hitler to seize control of Munich and from there challenge the Weimar Republic. | Beer Hall Putsch |
| Everyone's least favorite person in the world. Author of Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| The English name for the National Socialist German Workers' Party | Nazi Party |
| Hitler's fascist paramilitary forces | Brownshirts |
| Germany's last president before Hitler's rise to power, the man who appointed Hitler as chancellor. | Paul von Hindenburg |
| The building that housed Germany's parliament. | Reichstag |
| The 1933 act blamed on communists that enabled Hitler to suspend civil liberties in Germany. | Reichstag Fire |
| The act passed by Hitler following the Reichstag fire giving him an effective dictatorship over Germany | Enabling Act |
| The concept of "living space" for Germany's growing population | Lebensraum |
| Nazi paramilitary organization, also called "brownshirts" | Stormtroopers |
| A 1934 purge carried out by Hitler against members of the brownshirts who were angering the German army and threatening his hold on Germany | Night of the Long Knives |
| German laws that first began to restrict the rights of Jews and prevented Jews from marrying with other Germans | Nuremberg Laws |
| Anti-Jewish riots across Germany in 1938 sparked by the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath | Kristallnacht |
| Hitler's secret police | Gestapo |
| Nazi economic plans designed to shore up the German economy and prepare it for wartime | Four Year Plan |
| Hitler's propaganda minister | Joseph Goebbels |
| The commander of the SS, a large German paramilitary organization | Heinrich Himmler |
| Famous director who depicted the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in "Triumph of the Will." | Leni Riefenstal |
| Boy Scouts meet the Nazis. | Hitler Youth |
| The invasion of this region by Japan in 1931 stemmed from the Mukden Incident | Manchuria |
| Actions carried out by Hitler to prepare Germany for war, in total violation of the Versailles Treaty | Re-armament of Germany |
| Italy belligerently invaded this nation in 1935. | Ethiopia |
| The emperor of Ethiopia at the time of Italy's invasion | Haile Selassie |
| The remilitarization of this German region occurred in 1936 | Rhineland |
| A conflict between nationalist and republican forces in a certain Iberian nation dear to my heart. Ole. | Spanish Civil War |
| Spanish dictator who seized power following the Spanish Civil War | Francisco Franco |
| A declaration of mutual aid between the fascist governments of Italy and Germany | Tripartite Pact |
| Pact between Japan and Nazi Germany in 1936 to form an alliance against the Soviet Union | Anti-Comintern Pact |
| The violent conquest of a certain Chinese city in 1937 by Japan earned this name. | The Rape of Nanking |
| The 1938 annexation of Austria into Germany | Anschluss |
| The western border of the former republic of Czechoslovakia | Sudetenland |
| Winston Churchill's predecessor as prime minister | Winston Churchill |
| The policy of negotiation and avoiding conflict practiced by European nations in the 1930s towards German and Italian aggression | Appeasement |
| A conference that recognized German annexation of Sudetenland | Munich Agreement |
| An agreement promising peace between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. | Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact |
| The 1939 act that sparked WWII. | Invasion of Poland |
| The new style of rapid, concentrated mechanized warfare introduced by the Third Reich | Blitzkreig |
| A phase of World War II between the invasion of Poland and the invasion of France wherein no major military operations were carried out in Europe | Phony War |
| The Nazi-puppet government that ruled France during World War II. | Vichy France |
| Leader of the Free French | Charles de Gaulle |
| French partisans who continued to fight against Germany after Nazi occupation of France | Free French |
| British prime minister for much of World War II. | Winston Churchill |
| French city from which the English army was miraculously evacuated in the early days of WWII. | Dunkirk |
| The ideal society Hitler and the Nazis attempted to introduce first in Europe and then worldwide during WWII. | New Order |
| Germany's unsuccessful attempt to bomb Britain into submission | Battle of Britain |
| German air force, led by Herman Goring | Luftwaffe |
| Agreement formulated between Churchill and FDR that set the blueprint for the post World War II world | Atlantic Charter |
| United States policy that enabled it to loan weaponry to the Soviet Union and other Allied countries during WWII. | Lend Lease |
| The name given to the German invasion of the Soviet Union | Operation Barbarossa |
| The naval battle between Allied convoys and German submarines | Battle of the Atlantic |
| A major turning point in World War II, wherein the Nazis were unable to take a certain Russian city | Battle of Stalingrad |
| A turning point in North Africa that saw Axis forces being driven back from Egypt to Tunisia | El Alamein |
| Invasion of this island was the beginning of the Italian Campaign. | Sicily |
| The name given to the date of the Normandy invasion | D-Day |
| The last major German offensive of the war. | Battle of the Bulge |
| The systematic slaughter of European Jews | The Holocaust |
| A 1942 meeting which drew up a comprehensive plan for eliminating all Jews in occupied territory | Wannsee Conference |
| The day that established victory in the European theater of WWII. | V-E Day |
| The conference that saw the Allied forces demanding an unconditional surrender from the Axis powers | Casablanca conference |
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