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Weimar Republic
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Germany's new democratic government, blamed for the defeat in WW1
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Great Depression
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A severe, world wide economic crisis which lasted from the end of 1929 to the outbreak of World War II.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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President of the US during Great Depression and World War II
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Inflation in Germany
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Germany needed money, so the government printed more and the money lost its value.
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Dawes Plan
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$200 million dollar loan from the US helped stabilize Germany's economy, helps slow inflation
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US Financial Collapse
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1929: people bought stock on margin, stock prices rose and people got scared so they sold their stock; stocks fall; "Black Tuesday"
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The New Deal
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US government plan endorsed by FDR to fight the Great Depression.
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Fascism
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militant system of government characterized by extreme nationalism and obedience to an authoritarian leader
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Benito Mussolini
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Italian fascist leader
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Adolf Hitler
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Leader of the Nazi Party, his extreme nationalism and antisemitism would lead to WWII and the Holocaust
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Nazism
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The doctrines of nationalism, racial purity, anti-Communism, and the all-powerful role of the State. The National Socialist German Workers Party.
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Mein Kampf
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"My Struggle"-a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany
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Gestapo
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The Nazi's secret police during their rise to power
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Aryan Race
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Hitlers version of the perfect people, "blonde hair and blue eyes"
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Anti-semitism
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prejudice of Jews
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Kristallnacht
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"Night of Broken Glass" a government-endorsed mob attack on Germany's Jewish communities.
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Appeasement
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Britain and France's foreign policy of "giving in" to Germany's demands, in the hope that it will lead to peace.
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isolationism
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The United States' stance on foreign policy after WWI. Basically if a conflict did not involve the US, it was staying out of it.
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Axis Powers
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Japan-Italy-Germany alliance
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Francisco Franco
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Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a fascist dictator until his death (1892-1975)
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Third Reich
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The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
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Sudetenland
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crest around the edge of Czechoslovakia, attacked by Germany, taken over by Hitler who used a protectorate, let local government remain but controlled the government
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Munich Conference
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France, Russia, and Great Britain met in Munich to decide Czechoslovakia's future. They appeased the Germans to prevent war.
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German-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty
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treaty between the two empires agreeing not to fight each other.
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Rhineland
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an area of neutrality between France and Germany which Hitler took over
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