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germany (individuals) Flashcards

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David Lloyd George

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Prime Minister 1916-1922

Liberal party

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Georges Clemenceau

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French pm twice
Wanted a harsh Treaty of Versailles
Served as minister of war

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Woodrow Wilson

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Didn’t join the LoN because of isolationism
Very lenient terms of the ToV
American president 1912

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Friedrich Ebert

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Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Faced rebellion from far right and far left
Had to lead the transitioning gvmt after Kaiser abdication

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Benito Mussolini

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Founder of Fascism
Leader of Italy 1922 to 1943
Invaded Abyssinia 1935

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Adolf Hitler

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German Chancellor 1933
Served in WW1
Mein Kampf 1925

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Haile Selassie

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Leader of Abyssinia
Emperor from 1941 to 1974
Forced into exile in 1936 when Italy invaded

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Samuel Hoare + Pierre Laval

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British Secretary of State, French prime minister
Signed Hoare - laval pact 1935
Both forced to resign after Hoare Laval pact news leaked

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Lord Lytton

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Manchuria report (took a year) 1932
Victor Bulwer Lytton
2nd Earl of Lytton

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Kwantung Army

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Creating Manchukuo (Japanese puppet state)
1919
From 300,000 to 700,000+

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Neville Chamberlain

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British Prime minister
1937-1940
Closely associated with appeasement

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Josef Stalin

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Leader of Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953
Nazi-Soviet pact
Communist party

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Closely related to Britain (queen Victoria grandson)
Forced to abdicate to Netherlands
1918

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Socialists/ trade unions under Kaiser

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Support for SDP grew under kaiser

Largest party in Reichstag by 1912

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Spartacists

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Founded 1915
Over 100 killed ‘Bloody week’
Spartacist uprising 1919

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Freikorps

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Former soldiers

Left unemployed after WW1

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Wolfgang Kapp

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Failed leader of the kapp putsch
Strict nationalist
Wanted to establish a rightist dictatorship

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Gustav Stresemann

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Chancellor 1923
Foreign minister 1923 to 1929
Ended hyperinflation (Dawes plan)

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Paul Von Hindenburg

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President from 1925 to death
German general and statesman
Commanded imperial German army (WW1)

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Gustav Von Karr

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Leader of Bavarian gvmt
Met in Munich 1923
Forced to publicly announce support for the Nazis

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Heinrich Bruning

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Chancellor and foreign minister before Hitler

Governed by presidential decree

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Franz Von papen

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Chancellor 1932-33

achieved the cancellation of Germany’s reparations

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Kurt Von schleicher

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Chancellor 1932-33
Murdered on the night of the long knives
Appointed defence minister

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Herman Goering

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Leader of the nazi party
Organised nazi police state
Established concentration camps

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Hjalmar schacht

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Introduction rentenmark
Arrested by the gestapo
Opposed rearmament

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Heinrich Himmler

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Leader of SS
Leading member of Nazi party
Built extermination camps

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Josef Goebbles

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Minister of propaganda
Advocated for extermination of Jews
Reich plenipotentiary total war 1944

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Edvard Benes

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President of Czechoslovakia
Led during ww2
Sudetenland crisis

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Englebert dollfuss

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Chancellor of Austria

Assassinated by nazis 1934

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Kurt schuschnigg

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Opposed to Hitler
Wanted Austria to remain independent
Anschluss

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Arthur seyss- inquart

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Chancellor Austria for 2 days

Executed Nuremberg trials

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Ernst Rohm

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Early member of Nazi party
Cofounder of SA
Executed night of the long knives

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The SA

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Original Nazi paramilitary group
“Brownshirts”
Most killed night of the long knives

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SS

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1929 -1945

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Gestapo

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White Rose Group

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Hitler Youth

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Edelweiss Pirates

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Martin Niemoller

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The Kreisau Circle

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