Germany under Adolf Hitler
German name for the two nights of Nazi rioting in 1938 that destroyed thousands of Jewish businesses and hundred of synagogues.
Kristallnacht
The major reasons many German voters elected Nazi candidates.
They promised to restore national pride and create jobs
Hitler's name for the empire he was building.
Third Reich
Term for the belief that all humans compete for survival and that stronger groups had the right to control weaker groups.
Social Darwinism
Why the Weimar Republic lacked popular support in Germany.
it was blamed for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles which punished Germany for WWI.
Name of the alliance signed by Hitler and Mussolini in 1936.
Rome-Berlin Axis
Hitler's brutal Nazi police force.
Gestapo
The leader of the Nazi Party.
Adolf Hitler
The two dangerous ideas Hitler added to existing fascist beliefs.
blonde, blue-eyed Germans were a master race, Jews, slavs, and gypsies were inferior and should be destroyed
Hitler blames the burning of the Reichstag on this group.
communists
Hitler's title meaning "the leader".
der fuhrer
Hitler's first position in the German govt.
Chancellor (head of the govt)
Why Hitler's popularity was very high with most German citizens in the 1930's.
He put thousands of Germans back to work and he restored national pride by rebuilding the military
Head of gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
How the ideas of Social Darwinism affected like in Europe in the 1920's and 1930's.
It made racism and anti-semitism seem more respectable
Ways the Nuremberg Laws persecuted Jews living in Germany in the 1930's.
Jews were expelled from govt jobs, prohibited from teaching positions, forbidden to practice law or medicine, citizenship rights were taken away, forced to live in ghettos (segregated neighborhoods), forced to wear a yellow star of David, no intermarriage with non-Jews
Title of the autobiography Adolf Hitler wrote while in prison in 1924.
Mein Kampf
More popular name of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Nazi
Name for the series of 1930's laws p[asses by the Nazis to deprive Jews of their rights.
Nuremberg Laws
Brown shirts
Paramilitary group also know as "storm troopers"
Name of the German legislature during the Weimar Republic.
Reichstag
Hitler's black uniformed "protection squad".
SS (Schutzstaffel)
Other ideas Hitler wrote about in Mein Kampf.
The Treaty of Versailles was a humiliation for Germany and should be rejected, Germany was overcrowded and needed more living space-"lebensraum", Communism was a Jewish plot to take over the world
1933 event that allowed Hitler to suspend the rights of citizens in Germany.
The burning of the Reichstag building
The goal of the Nazi Party in the late 1920's, after the Great Depression struck.
To get Nazi candidates elected to the Reichstag
Name of the democratic govt set up in Germany after WWI.
Weimar Republic
The symbol of the Nazi Party.
swastika
