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Aryan |
Term used by the Nazis to describe 'pure-blooded' Germanic people |
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Concentration camps |
Prison camps where people were beaten, tortured, starved and used as slave labour |
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Left Wing |
Of parties, ideologies and individuals such as communists and socialists, that want greater political equality |
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Paramilitary |
Armed forces outside the official military |
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Reichsag |
The german parliament |
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Right wing |
of parties, ideologies and individuals whose political beliefs range from conservative to fascist |
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Militarism |
Excessive influence of military values and pro-war ideas |
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Third Reich |
the nazi name for their regime in germany. reich means empire |
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United Front |
policy of communist parties forming alliances with other parties to combat fascism |
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Ideologies |
Sets of beliefs that provide the basis of political systems |
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Luftwaffe |
the german air force during World war II |
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Partisans |
irregular fighters using guerilla tactics behind enemy lines |
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RAF |
britains royal air force |
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Scorched Earth |
military strategy of destoying or removing everything that could be used by an advancing enemy |
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Bunker |
fortified underground shelter, usually with openings from which to fire at enemies |
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Foxhole |
a concealed dugout or pit used by one person to shelter from and shoot at the enemy |
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Alien |
A person born in another country who is not yet a citizen of the country in which they live |
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Interment |
to be put in prison for political or military reasons, either real or perceived |
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Rationing |
controlling the distribution of something when supplies are low |
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South-West Pacific Zone |
area, including new guinea and what is now indonesia within which australians conscripts could be sent to fight after febuary 1943 |
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Munitions |
weapons and ammunition |
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Normandy |
a region of france on the atlantic coast |
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Weimar Republic |
the deocratic system of government in germany from 1919 to early 1933, so called because its constitution was written in the city of weimar |
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Radicals |
a person who advocates fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions or institutions |
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Anarchists |
revolutionaries who want an equal society based on cooperation rather than government or coercive laws |
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Dole |
payments to the unemployed, usually in the form of coupons to exchange for food |
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Welfare |
government system to provide help to members of society who need support |
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Capitalists |
economic system based on private ownership of capital, free markets and competition |
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Dissidents |
people who publicly disagree with government policy or actions |
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Socialists |
those who support an economic system based on public ownership of industry to create greater equality |