Germany Vocab

Question 0

Chancellor

Answer 0

Prime Minister of Germany

Question 1

Kaiser

Answer 1

German for King

Question 2

Reichstag

Answer 2

Parliament

Question 3

Weimar Republic

Answer 3

New Democratic Government in Germany after WW1

Question 4

Friedrich Ebert

Answer 4

First President of Weimar Germany

Question 5

The Dolchstoss

Answer 5

The Stab in the Back

Question 6

Armistice

Answer 6

An agreement for peace

Question 7

Reparations

Answer 7

Compensation for war

Question 8

Freikorps

Answer 8

Soldiers who supported the Weimar Republic (To start with)

Question 9

Putsch

Answer 9

An attempt to seize power/ Violent Uprising

Question 10

The SA

Answer 10

The Nazi Party’s private army

Question 11

Inflation

Answer 11

When prices go up

Question 12

Passive resistance

Answer 12

No cooperation/ Refusal to work

Question 13

Führer

Answer 13

Supreme Leader

Question 14

SS

Answer 14

Blackshirts - Nazi Secret Army

Question 15

The Road to Dictatorship

Answer 15

Nazi Consolidation of Power

Question 16

Emergency Powers

Answer 16

Given to Hitler by Hindenburg after the Reichstag Fire meaning the police could arrest and hold people without trial

Question 17

Gestapo

Answer 17

Part of SS - Spies

Question 18

Eugenics

Answer 18

Creating a pure race

Question 19

Lebensraum

Answer 19

Living space

Question 20

Autarky

Answer 20

Self sufficient

Question 21

Genocide

Answer 21

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a religious, racial, national or cultural group

Question 22

Pogrom

Answer 22

Organised massacre of a particular ethnic group/ religion

Question 23

Perpetrator

Answer 23

The one who commits an act

Question 24

Bystander

Answer 24

One who watches an act and doesn't intervene

Question 25

Collaborator

Answer 25

Helps/ encourages an act

Question 26

Resister

Answer 26

Tries to stop an event