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35 Cards in this Set
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SPD
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Social Democratic Party. Moderate Views
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KPD
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Communist party of Germany. Also called "Spartacists"
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NSDAP
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National Socialist German Workers' Party. Nazi's
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Friedrich Ebert
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Fiedrich Ebert becomes “imperial” chancellor. SPD party
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Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht
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Leaders of the KPD brutally murdered by the government
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Versailles Treaty
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Treaty put in place after WWI, signed on June 28 1919. Made Germany assume responsibility for the war. Pay reparations and lost land to other european countries.
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Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution
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Article 48 says that the president can make emergence decrees as they see fit.
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“stab in the back” myth
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Jews in the military, undermined it and the government causing them to lose the war!
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Mein Kampf
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Hitlers book that he wrote in prison. "My struggle"
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Weimar culture
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Referred to as the golden twenties.Literature - Thomas Mann. Music - Jazz and classical.
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Käthe Kollwitz
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Graphic arts, sculptures no oils. Lost son in WW1, anti war. Never again War (pencil), Pieta(sculpture), The mothers (pencil)
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Otto von Hindenburg
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Worked with army leaders to plan a right wing authoritarian government. Believed the Weimar government based on parties was not working.
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the “night of the long knives”
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30 June 1934. Hitlers enemies killed, led by Heinrich Himmler. SS now had more power than the SA
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Joseph Goebbels
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Minister of Propaganda. Perfected the "Big Lie" of mass Propaganda
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Gleichschaltung (putting into the same gear)
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Political opponents and jews removed from civil service. Powers of the state diminished.
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The Enabling Act
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Enabled hitler to create laws that with other countries. These laws were not able to be thrown out by the Reichsrat.
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Theresienstadt
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Example Ghetto that was shown to the red cross and the german people.
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Concordat of 1933
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Contract between the Nazis and the vatican.
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Nuremberg Laws of 1935
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A set of laws and policies asserting the supiriority of the Aryan race. Based on "scientific facts". Eugenics started, jews couldn't vote, had to wear the star of david.
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Kristallnacht (night of broken glass)
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Considered to have started the Holocaust. Nearly 1000 synagogues were set afire. Also businesses and shops owned by jews.
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Four-Year Plan
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Prepare for war, pursue rearmament vigorously, maintain public support, continue ties for italy and japan
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Anschluß of Austria
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Invasion of Austria, bloodless invasion cheered by most.
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Munich Conference of 1938
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Czechoslovakia not there. Western powers give part of czech to the Germans.
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Stalingrad
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First major defeat 1943
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Invasion of Poland
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September 1 1939
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D-Day
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June 6 1944, largest fleet ever nearly 5000 ships of every type.
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Auschwitz
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Most infamous of all death camps.Provided labor to a number of german firms
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Wannsee Conference
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January 1492 to discuss the "final solution"
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Heinrich Himmler
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Leader of the SS and German police
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Sophie Scholl
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Member of the "White Rose" catholic university students who tried to rouse up the public to stand up to the nazis
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Claus von Stauffenberg
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Military hero and leader of the Valkyrie plot.
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Dr. Caligari
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First film to fully exemplify expressionism.
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“Degenerate” art
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Exhibits put on in 1937-9 to show art that was not approved by the Nazis
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Franz Kafka
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Author of the Law and metamorphisis.
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Expressionist artists
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Franz Marc, Heinrich Zille, Käthe Kollwitz
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