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Fascism+WWII - Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Socialism (communism) | equality of all peoples, democratic in principal; based on economic laws (cant do anything about way society happens); humanitarian ideas; control the economy |
| Fascism | unequality of peoples; based on leadership principal (Great Leader); will- if you are strong enough, you can change history; glorifies war and aggression; supervise the economy |
| Nazism | fascism on steroids; super patriotism; aryan supremacy; racism; militarism (war is healthy and good); leader principal; law and order; ANTI-COMMUNIST |
| Militarism | army leaders run the government; all functions of society geared to benefit the military; success is measured by military conquest and expansion; war is the goal rather than something to be avoided |
| Benito Mussolini | seized control of Italy in 1922 (first western facsist dictator); preWWI, revolutionary and socialist; postWWI, turned into nationalist |
| Blackshirts | fascists; brawled w/communists and ordinary workers in strikes/summer of 1920 |
| March on Rome | Blackshirts mobilized and threatened a coup (Mussolini safe in Milan); Italian president refused to sign martal law and cabinet resigned; Mussolini declared premier; techinaclly legal |
| Duce | 'leader'; Mussolini's title; denounced democracy, liberalism, capitalism, Marxism, socialism, class awareness; promoted national solidarity, and efficicecy |
| Adolf Hiltler | not an intellectual or a socialist- restless ignorant type of radicalism; very race conscience, anti-monarchy/noblity/mixed nationalities/semetic; recieved high honors in WWI |
| German Workers Party | Hitler and army's political instruction program (propaganda to keep veterans and workers patriotic and militaristic); hated Weimar democracy; Hitler as leader |
| Nazis | Hitler's proclaimed 25 point program; German Workers' Party -> National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Brownshirts | private 'army' of the Nazis; also called storm troopers |
| Storm Troopers | private 'army' of the Nazis; also called brownshirts |
| Beer Hall Putsch | Hitler and Brownshirts failed rebellion; 'national revlutioon has broken out', but easicly suppressed by police; Hitler went to jail |
| Mein Kampt | My Struggle; book Hitler wrote in prison; had personal recollection, racism, nationalism, collectivism, theories of history, etc.; Hitler became figure of national prominence |
| Volk | the German people |
| Reichstag | Nazis had 230 seats, but later dropped to 196; Hitler named chancellor of coalition cabinet by Papen and Schleicher to share w/Nationalists |
| Third Reich | Hitler's new Germany; "last 1000 years" |
| Fuhrer | means 'leader'; Hitler's title; represented the 'true German people' |
| Nuremberg Laws (1935) | no more citizenship rights to Jews (non-Geman) and no intermarriage/relationship between Jews and non Jews |
| Kristallnacht | Nov 9 1938; 'night of broken glass'; Nazis vandalized, looted, and set fire to Jewish shops, homes, and synagogues; beat up thousands |
| Holocaust | state organized systematic destruction of Jews; 6 million German and EuropeanJews died in the death camps |
| Gestapo | Hitler's secret political police; Geheime Staatspolizei; captured thousands who were killed/detained in permanent concetration camps |
| Strength Through Joy | attended to people with small incomes; provided entertainment and vacations to poor, good Germans |
| pacifism | the insistence of peace, regardless of concequences; mood felt in the 1930s by western democracies |
| Maginot Line | French fortifications on eastern frontier (facing Germany); fR hoped any following wars owuld be defensive |
| appeasment | Hitler rages, arouses fear of war, takes a little, "its all I want", Western powers back off, repeat; Hitler creates an emergency and GB and FR let him have his way |
| isolationism | US had rigid policy of isolation; no loans, supplies, etc to any Euro country if they've declared war; aggressors benefited |
| Locarno agreements | confirmed post WWI boarders; repudiated by Hitler in March 1936 with occupation of Rhineland; neither GB or FR were willing to check Hitler's power |
| Anschluss | the union of Germany and Austria in 1938 |
| Munich Crisis | GB and FR appeased Hitler and allowed him to take German parts of Bohemia; death sentence to Czechoslovakia; showed helpless weakness to western powers |
| Francisco Franco | established authoritarian, fasciest rule over Spain |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | the diplomatic area where Hitler and mussolini hoped they might infulence |
| Sudentenland | area of Czechoslovakia that was primarily German |
| Polish Corridor | the Polish area that separated Germany from other Germanic peoples (Pomerelia) |
| Edouard Daiadier | French premier |
| Luftwaffe | the German air force |
| Blitzkreig | lightning warfare; Germany bombs, roll in the tanks, take advantage |
| phony war | nothing much happened at first; GB and FR thought they could get away without fighting; little air action; late 1939 |
| Charles de Gaulle | Frenchmen who led the 'Free French' movement |
| Marshal Petain | the parliament that ruled the remaining French republic; 1/3 that wasn't under Nazi direct control; headed authoritarian regime |
| Festuna Europa | Fortress of Europe; aka Germay's control over Europe |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister (1940) after Chamberlain; 'blood, sweat, and tears' |
| Erwin Romme | leader of German troops in Africa |
| Marshal Badogilo | gained power in Italy (August of 1943) after fall of Mussolini |
| Harry S. Truman | new US representative at Potsdam conference; decided to drop the bombs |
| Clement Attiee | new GB prime minister |
| Battle of Britain | air battle between GB and Germany; GB wins |
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