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KilarGlobalWW2-3
Kilar World War II study guide Part 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hitler ran for president and... | He lost, but was appointed chancellor by the conservative party |
| Conservative party gave Hitler a job because... | They thought he would be grateful and easy to control |
| Nazi Party popularity... | In 1928, they won 3% of the vote, in 1930, they won 18% of the vote |
| Biggest difference between Hitler and Mussolini's idealogy... | Mussolini didn't have the obsessive hatred of Jews that Hitler did |
| Reichstag Fire | In 1933, the Reichstag Building caught fire; Hitler blamed communists and used this to give himself emergency dictatoral powers |
| To work for German government under Hitler... (2) | People had to prove they were "Aryan" and loyal to Hitler |
| Night of the Long Knives | June 30, 1934: Hitler purged the party of anyone who was not loyal to him personally; 80 people were killed |
| Hitler became dictator when... | Germany's president died |
| Germany military swore an oath to... | Hitler personally |
| Hitler Youth | About half of Germans between the ages of 10-14 belonged to this group that preached hatred of Jews and Nazi idealogy |
| Children in Germany were taught to denounce... (2) | Anyone who didn't agree with Nazi idealogy, even teachers and parents |
| "Working towards the Fuhrer" | Hitler didn't come up with all of the terrible ideas of Nazi Germany, but he encouraged and supported anyone working for him that came up with ideas on how to make life more awful for Jews and further his agenda |
| Hitler valued... | Personal loyalty |
| Hitler's "economic miracle" | Hitler's rearmament policy brought down unemployment |
| What Nazis wanted women to do | Stay at home, have children |
| In Germany, women were banned from... | Many professions, including teaching |
| Nazi sterilization policy | Nazis performed surgery on people that were either Roma or disabled to keep them from having children |
| Gestapo | Hitler's secret police that he used to track down his political enemies and round up Jews |
| German intelluctuals... | Fled Germany |
| If Hitler didn't like music or art, or the artist was a Jew, it was... | Banned in Germany |
| Joseph Goebbels | Hitler's minister of propaganda that set up the "cult of personality" around Hitler |
| Truimph of the Will | A popular pro-Nazi propaganda film |
| Nuremberg Laws | Passed in 1935, they put restrictions on Jews in Germany, including forcing them to wear yellow Star of David to identify themselves in public |
| Germans were forbidden from doing what with Jews? | Marriage or having children |
| Jews that owned businesses were forced to... | Sell those businesses to "Aryans" for a fraction of what they were worth |
| Government stamped Jewish passports as | "Non-Aryan" which made it harder for them to leave Germany |
| Kristallnacht: Night of the Broken Glass | People destroyed Jewish businesses, beat up Jews, and over 30,000 were arrested |
| Why Hitler was interested in Czechoslovakia | They had a German speaking population |
| French fascism... | Failed. Democracy held on. |
| Workers' rights in France | A strike gave French workers better pay, shorter work days, and paid vacation. After this, there were fewer strikes in France. |
| Lebensraum: living space | Hitler demanded more territory for Germans, saying they needed for space to live |
| Hitler and the Treaty of Versailles | He absolutely hated it and wanted to get rid of it |
| Hitler and the League of Nations | He absolutely hated it and withdrew as soon as he thought it was safe to do so |
| Hitler's nonaggression pact with Poland | Signed in 1934, but Hitler promised military he wouldn't follow it |
| Hitler formed an alliance with... | Mussolini and the Italian fascists |
| First two countries Italy attacked | Libya, Albania |
| Italians used what to control population of Libya and Albania (2) | Mustard gas and public executions |
| Italy broke international agreements by | Training and rearming the Germans |
| Why didn't Britain and France do anything? | They had their own problems and could not afford to go to war with Germany |
| Why were some British sympathic to Germany? | They thought Germany had been treated unfairly in the Treaty of Versailles |
| Italians invaded Ethiopia... | To avenge their humiliting defeate in 1896 |
| Ethiopia and the League of Nations | Ethiopia asked League for help and they did nothing |
| Appeasement | The policy of letting fascists do what they want in hopes that it will make them happy and they will stop doing terrible things |
| Reoccupation of the Rhineland | In 1937, Germany broke Treaty of Versailles by rearming the demilitarized zone in the Rhineland |
| Britain's response to reoccupation of the Rhineland | Started preparing for war again |
| Type of government Soviets were living under with Stalin in charge | Totalitarian |
| How did Stalin get rid of enemies in communist party? | Sent them to work in remote parts of USSR or expelled them |
| Stalin wanted Soviet economy to move away from agriculture and into | Industralization |
| Stalin took land from | Kulaks, who were wealthy peasants |
| How peasants responded to collectivization | Burned their own land and killed their own livestock |
| Five Year Plan | Stalin's economic plan to move the Soviet Union into collectivization and industralization |
| If peasants couldn't make quotas by Soviet government | They were killed |
| After collectivization, peasants were only allowed to keep | Small patches of land for growing fruits and vegetables |
| Starvation in Ukraine | Between 1930-1935 because of collectivization in USSR, 7 million people starved to death, mostly in Ukraine |
| Stalin and Kazakhstan | Between 1926 - 1933, about 10% of the population was murdered or starved to death |
| Soviets and data | Soviets manipulated data to make it look like things were going well |
| Stalin and artists | He used artists to promote his cult of personality |
| Women in the Soviet Union | Women were allowed to do many things they weren't allowed to do under the tsar like get an educatin or a job |
| Education in the Soviet Union | More children attended school under Stalin than under the tsar |
| Stalin and religion | Stalin tolerated religion like Orthodox Christianity and Islam because he shared their traditional views about marriage and LGBT relationships |
| NKVD | Soviet Secret Police who hunted down Stalin's enemies |
| Stalin's "show trials" | Anyone who was arrested was given a trial, but the judges had been ordered on how to rule before the trail even started. Stalin had these trials to make it look like he was being fair, but everyone knew he was not. |
| Children in the Soviet Union | Children as young as 12 could be executed; children were taught to denounce their parents or teachers |
| For the "crime" of mocking Stalin, people could be sentenced to... | Hard labor |
| Stalin forced Communist parties outside of USSR... | To purge their parties of anyone who he disagreed with |
| Final fate of Leon Trotsky | Expelled from USSR by Stalin, on the run since 1929, found in Mexico by Stalin's agents and murdered |
| To keep ethnic minorities from setting up nationalist movements, Stalin... | Ordered mass executions of them |
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