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Flashcards by Emilia Taddonio, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emilia Taddonio
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| Question | Answer |
| Abdicate | give up the throne of the country |
| anti-Semitism | hatred for and persecution of the Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group |
| armistice | agreement, or truce, to stop fighting |
| Article 48 | part of the Weimar Constitution that gave the President the right to rule in a time of crisis without requiring the support of the Reichstag |
| avant-garde | new and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature |
| Bundesrat | group made up of German state represetnatices who supported the Kaiser |
| Confessional Church | German Protestant group determined to have nothing to do with the Nazis or the German Christians |
| conscription | law making all men of a certain age join the armed forces and be available to fight at any time |
| DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) | German Labour Front, a Nazi organisation that workers had to belong to |
| Dawes Plan | agreement between the USA and European countires, allowing for US loans to be given to European countries (especially German) 1924 |
| When was the Depression? | 1930s Many banks and businesses failed and millions lost their jobs. |
| diktat | 'dictated peace' Name given to the Treaty of Versailles |
| Edelweiss Pirates | rebel youth gang |
| Enabling Law | 1933 law passed allowing Nazis to make their own laws without consulting the Reichstag |
| Four Year Plan | 1936 attempt by the Nazis to increase agricultural and industrial production, regulate imports and exports, and achieve self-sufficiency in the production of raw materials. AUtarky. |
| Free Corps | right-wing German paramilitary group that was active in the early years of the Weimar Republic. |
| Gestapo | 1933 part of the SS and secret police, created by Goering and controlled by Himmler |
| Hyperinflation crisis | 1923. 1. French and Belgian troops invade the Ruhr to demand reparations. 2. Germany strikes 3. More currency printed to pay for striking workers 4. economic crisis 5. crisis worsens 6. Hyperinflation 7. starvation and homelessness |
| July Bomb Plot | 1944 attempt by a group of influential Germans, to kill hitler and take over Germany and end the war |
| KDF | Strength through Joy: part of the German Labour front that provided folidays and activities for ordinary Germans |
| Kreisau CIrcle | group of army officers, university professors and aristocrats who talked often aabout the possibility of assassinating Hitler and getting rid of the Nazis. |
| Kristallnacht | 1938, Night of Broken Glass: jewish shops and businesses attacked |
| League of Nations | Germany joined in 1926 international peace-keeping organisation set up after the First World war. |
| Lebensorn | 'Fountain of Life', a nazi movement to stop population decline in Germany. Girls taught in school to produce racially 'pure' children (SS were acceptable fathers) Pregnant girls received best medical care. |
| November Criminals | German politicials in the Weimar who signed the ToV |
| Nuremberg Laws | 1935 laws excluding Jews from Reich citizenship, and stopping them from marrying German people. |
| putsch | attempt to seize power or take control using force. |
| Munich Putsch | 1923 Failed coup led by Hitler |
| Red Rising | left-wing voters' revolt in March 1920, in the Ruhr region of Germany |
| Reichsbanner | 1924 organisation by different political parties to defend parliamentary democracy. |
| Reichstag | main, elected German parliament |
| SS | originally Hitler's bodyguards. Led by Heinrich Himmler |
| SDA | Beauty of Labour organisation; promoted workers |
| Spartacus League | group of German communists who wanted a revolution similar to the on e that had taken place in RUssia in 1917 |
| SA | Employed to beat up opponents and guard meetings. |
| Swing Youth | group of young Germans who refused to join the Hitler Youth organisation. |
| Wall Street Crash | 1929 millions of people tried to sell their shares in companies at the same time, resulting in a huge drop in share prices |
| Weimar Republic | name given to Germany's democratic system between 1913 and 1933 |
| White Rose Group | anti-Nazi youth group, made up mainly of university students |
| Young PLan | agreement to reduce reparations, made in 1929 between Germany and the countries they owed money to after the First World War. |
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