The Rise of Hitler Word Scramble
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The TOTAL control of a country and its people by its leadership | Totalitarianism |
A system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian government dominated by a dictator | Communism |
A violent and sudden uprising or political revolt; also known as a coup d'etat | Putsch |
The building in Berlin where the legislative body met | Reichstag |
Majority rule; involves the government ruling and making laws for the "greater good" of all people; they may abolish personal rights in doing so | Democracy |
A country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a ruler | Dictatorship |
Empire | Reich |
Laws introduced in 1935 to define Jews as non-Aryan; therefore, not German citizens; therefore, can be discriminated against | Nuremberg Laws |
Stormtroopers or Brownshirts; Hitler's private terrorist army of 400,000 | SA |
An elite military unit that served as Hitler's bodyguards and as a special police force (50,000) | SS |
The Secret Police; the most ruthless section of all the Nazi-organized groups | Gestapo |
The Night of Broken Glass; Nov. 9,1938; Jewish buildings all over Germany were attacked and burned; most famous pogrom | Kristallnacht |
an emblem symbolizing Judaism | Star of David |
In Jan. 1942 Nazi leadership met to discuss the "Final Solution" to the Jewish "problem." | Wannsee Conference |
Using modern factory methods to "process" Jews to death in the fastest possible way | Final Solution |
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