Democracy And Dictatorship In Germany

Question 1

Alliance

Answer 1

A relationship between two parties based upon a shared interest

Question 2

Democracy

Answer 2

A system of government using elected representatives

Question 3

Dictatorship

Answer 3

A state led by a dictator

Question 4

Dictator

Answer 4

A ruler with total power over a country

Question 5

Constitution

Answer 5

The set of principles establishing how a country is governed

Question 6

Conscription

Answer 6

Compulsory military service for a set period of time

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Autocracy

Answer 7

A system where one person has absolute rule

Question 8

Autonomy

Answer 8

The right of self government

Question 9

Black market

Answer 9

An underground economy where goods are sold and purchased without regulations

Question 10

Federal

Answer 10

A system of government in which several States form a union but remain independent in internal affairs

Question 11

Jewish people

Answer 11

People who are united through the religion or ethnicity and culture of judaism

Question 12

Anti semitism

Answer 12

Hostility to, or prejudice against Jewish people

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Eugenics

Answer 13

The dated scientific programme advocating controlled breeding for the genetic improvement of the race

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Rearmament

Answer 14

The process of developing a new supply of weapons

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Hard currency

Answer 15

A currency that is unlikely to fluctuate or depreciate suddenly or greatly

Question 16

Nationalism

Answer 16

The belief in and support for a national identify and sovereignty

Question 17

Occupying powers

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The USA, the USSR, France and Great Britain who occupied Germany post World War II

Question 18

Passive resistance

Answer 18

A form of opposition without the use of force

Question 19

Pogrom

Answer 19

An organised massacre of a particular ethnic group.

Question 20

Proletariat

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Working class people

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Reparations

Answer 21

War damages. The payment of money and the transfer of resources from the defeated to the Victor after a war

Question 22

Reichstag

Answer 22

The German state Parliament

Question 23

Show trial

Answer 23

A trial held in public to influence public opinion rather than ensure justice

Question 24

Proportional representation

Answer 24

A form of democracy in which the number of votes won in an election determines the number of seats won in Parliament

Question 25

Coalition government

Answer 25

A government formed by two or more political parties

Question 26

Collectivisation

Answer 26

A policy initiated by stalin the USSR in the 1930s to create larger and more effective agricultural units under state control

Question 27

Total war

Answer 27

A state of war in which involves the whole population economically and military in a war

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Welfare state

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A system in whereby the state commits to the protection and well being of its citizens by means as such as services, benefits and pensions

Question 29

Cult of personality

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The use of the power and charisma of a political leader to influence and dominate a nation

Question 30

Supranational

Answer 30

A power of influence that transcend national boundaries or governments

Question 31

Annexation

Answer 31

the act of seizing something such as territory

Question 32

Avant garde

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A term suggesting new ideas and styles in art

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Asocials

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people whom the Nazis deemed as socially unfit, such as alcoholics, prostitutes and homosexuals

Question 34

Autarky

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The aim for self sufficiency in the production of food and raw materials

Question 35

Bilateral

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Involving two parties

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Cartel

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An arrangement or association between businesses in order to control the market and restrict competition

Question 37

Balanced budget

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A financial programme where the government will not spend more than is able to raise in the revenue

Question 38

Dualism

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A system of government where two forces coexist

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Pluralism

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A system where two or more states, groups or parties exist

Question 40

Demagogue

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A political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of the people.

Question 41

Rapprochement

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The establishment or re-establishment of cordial relations between two powers

Question 42

Fuhrerprinzip

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The leadership principle and promoted the belief in a one party state built upon one all powerful leader

Question 43

Gauleiter

Answer 43

Leader of a regional area

Question 44

Lebensborn

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Spring or the fountain of life and was a policy to promote racial purity through selective breeding

Question 45

Lebensraum

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Living Space and was a policy to create an empire and German supremacy to the east of Germany

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Stunde null

Answer 46

Zero hour and is a term used in German Society to describe Germany's collapse in the months after 1945

Question 47

Untermenschen

Answer 47

Subhumans

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Wiedergutmachung

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Making good again. This entailed paying reparations or restitution to the victims of nazism

Question 49

Gleichschaltung

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Bringing into line or co-ordination

Question 50

Volksgemeinschaft

Answer 50

A people's community