Nazi vocab

Question 0

Anti-semitiam

Answer 0

Hatred of the Jews

Question 1

Mein Kampf

Answer 1

Basic book of nazi goals and ideology

Question 2

Fuhrer

Answer 2

Strong leader

Question 3

NAZI

Answer 3

national socialist German workers

Question 4

Reichstag

Answer 4

Lower house of legislature

Question 5

Aryan race

Answer 5

Light skinned Europeans

Question 6

Gestopo

Answer 6

Secret police

Question 7

Kristallnacht

Answer 7

Night of the broken glass

Question 8

Concentration camps

Answer 8

Detention centers for civilizations considered enemies of the state

Question 9

What happened to Germany in the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 9

• Germany takes full blame
• pay allies 30B dollars for destruction
• remove land from western and eastern Germany
• Germany had to give up all colonies
• reduce and limit military size

Question 10

What is the Weimar Republic?

Answer 10

• a democratic government
• gave women the right to vote
• set up parliamentary system

Question 11

Problems with Weimar Republic?

Answer 11

• Germany had many small parties
• communists demanded redial changes
• corruption within the government

Question 12

Who did Germans blame for economic hardships?

Answer 12

German Jews

Question 13

What did inflation happen in Germany?

Answer 13

• Germany fell behind in reparation payments
• Ruhr refused to work
• gov printed off huge amounts of money
• this made money have less value

Question 14

How did America help Germany?

Answer 14

• we loaned them money

- Dawes Plan

Question 15

How did inflation cause the Great Depression?

Answer 15

-Germany was broke
- America cut them off and wanted their money back
- Germany printed more money than they had
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Question 16

What county was Hitler from?

Answer 16

• Austria

- Austria rejected him as leader

Question 17

What does NAZI stand for?

Answer 17

• national socialist German workers

Question 18

Who battled for Germany in the streets?

Answer 18

Storm troopers

Question 19

What did hitler write about in Mein Kampf?

Answer 19

• extreme nationalism
• racism
• antisemitism

Question 20

Who is considered a Jew?

Answer 20

-anyone with one Jewish grandparent

Question 21

How did the Great Depression help hitler rise to power?

Answer 21

• he promised to end reparations, create jobs

- brought back his crowd pleasing speeches

Question 22

How did hitter get Germany out of the Great Depression?

Answer 22

• thousands of people were put to work
  - highways
  - housing
  - replanted forests

Question 23

How was hitter like Stalin when he first took power?

Answer 23

• executed NAZI’s he thought were unloyal
• wanted people to obey him without question
• made Germany a one party state

Question 24

What were Germany’s three reichs?

Answer 24

• medieval Holy Roman Empire
• empire forged by Bismarck
• unite Germany and Austria

Question 25

What was a totalitarian state like in Germany?

Answer 25

• NAZIs controlled all areas of German life

- as troops enforced law

Question 26

What was the economic policy to improve Germany?

Answer 26

• he launched a large public works program

- people were put to work building roads and planting

Question 27

What did hitler teach the German youth?

Answer 27

• they pledged absolute loyalty to Germany

- undertook physical fitness programs to prepare for war

Question 28

What happens to arts and music in Germany?

Answer 28

• they denounced modern art
• they condemned jazz because of African roots
• burned books

Question 29

Religion in Germany?

Answer 29

• replaced religion with his own creed
• closed catholic schools
• combined Protestant and sec churches

Question 30

What are Nuremberg laws?

Answer 30

• prohibited from marrying non Jews
• attending or teaching in German schools
• holding government jobs
• practicing law or medicine
• publishing books

Question 31

Nuremberg laws?

Answer 31

• night of the broken glass
  - young new shot German diplomat
  - hitler used it as an excuse to attack Jews