front 1 War Guilt Clause | back 1 A clause in Treaty of Versailles; declared Germany responsible for WWI; ordered Germany to pay reparation to Allied powers |
front 2 Zionism | back 2 A movement to create the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. |
front 3 suffrage | back 3 the right to vote |
front 4 Civil Disobedience | back 4 the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. Think about Letter from Birmingham Jail (unjust laws) |
front 5 Economic depression | back 5 Period when business activity slows, prices and wages drop, and unemployment rises |
front 6 Inflation | back 6 A continuous rise in the price of goods and services |
front 7 Appeasement | back 7 Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. |
front 8 Germany's Third Reich | back 8 Hitler's new Germany where a German master race would dominate Europe for thousands of years, Nazi Regime |
front 9 Lebensraum | back 9 the idea that land expansion was essential to the survival of the German people. "Living Space" |
front 10 Adolf Hitler | back 10 Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocaust |
front 11 Benito Mussolini | back 11 Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), He founded the Italian Fascist Party, and sided with Hitler and Germany in World War II. In 1945 he was overthrown and assassinated by the Italian Resistance. |
front 12 Cult of Personality | back 12 arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods to create an idealized, heroic, and at times worshipful image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. |
front 13 Germ Theory | back 13 the theory that infectious diseases are caused by certain microbes |
front 14 Polish (Danzig) Corridor | back 14 A strip of German territory awarded to newly independent Poland by the Treaty of Versailles. It gave Poland access to the Baltic Sea and separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany. Although originally Polish, a large minority of the population was German-speaking, an the entire situation caused friction between Poland and Germany, ultimately leading to the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and World War II. |
front 15 Munich Conference | back 15 a 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to take the Sudetenland. |
front 16 North European Plain | back 16 A large fertile land that extends from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains |
front 17 Propaganda | back 17 information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. |
front 18 Fascism | back 18 A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition (anyone who disagrees); state is priority over individual interests. |
front 19 Manhattan Project | back 19 Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. |
front 20 United Nations | back 20 An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. |
front 21 Nuremberg Trials | back 21 A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity. |
front 22 Winston Churchill | back 22 Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII; led his country through its 'Darkest Hour' all the way to victory over Nazi Germany and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West. |
front 23 Hideki Tojo | back 23 Prime minister of Japan during World War II; was dictator of the country. He gave his approval for the attack on Pearl Harbor and played a major role in Japan's military decisions until he resigned in 1944 |
front 24 collective security | back 24 A system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all |
front 25 Geneva Convention | back 25 An agreement concerning the treatment of prisoners of war |
front 26 Anti-Semitism | back 26 hostility to or prejudice against Jews. |
front 27 Kristallnacht | back 27 (Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews. |
front 28 Nuremberg Laws | back 28 Made it legal to discriminate against Jews. Placed severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books, withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood. |
front 29 Genocide | back 29 the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. |
front 30 Holocaust | back 30 A plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. |
front 31 Auschwitz | back 31 a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II; the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. |
front 32 Joseph Goebbels | back 32 German propagandist minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews
(1897-1945) |
front 33 Heinrich Himmler | back 33 He was a German Nazi leader and was a leader of the secret police, practically the second most powerful leader during World War II; came up with the final plan to murder all of the Jews in Europe. |