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November Revolution
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attempt to get communists in power in germany like bolsheviks, spd refuse to work with communists, freikorps quell uprising
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spartacist uprising
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50,000 communists in berlin january 1919
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kapp putsch
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overthrowing of weimar, berlin, failed when the population doesnt want to cooperate with the illegitimate government
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red army in the ruhr
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defeated freikorps, biggest armerd workers uprising in germany, communist and spd
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beer hall putsch
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hitler attempts to start uprising, leaves to settle something and comes back to revolution fiizzled
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political assasinations
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36 officials killed by nationalist terrorists
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Rappalo Treaty
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Germany and russia renounce all territorial and financial claims against the other following treaty of brest-litovsk and ww1
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Locarno Pact
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guarantees boundaries of belgium france and germany , allies leave rhineland
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Briand Kellog PAct 1926
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US germany france dont use war as a way to fix problems
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1924 ddawes plan
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small repartions to allies , return ruhr, bank
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1929 young plan
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reduces german payments, oes into effect before great depression and has hardly any effect
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laussanne conference 1932
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reduces repartions sets idea that germany not really going to pay, cancel war debts until all debts are paid to the US
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Freikorps
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paramilitary groups, murder wlather rathenau, ernst rohm
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SA
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STORM TROOPER, BROWN SHIRTS, NAZI THUGS
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,stahlhelm
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german for steel helmets
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reichsbanner
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spd defend paramilitary demoracy against internal subversion and extremism
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red front
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paramilitary commmunists
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ferederich ebert
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spd, 1st president of germany
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Philip Scheidmann
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SPD proclaims german republic and second chancellor of weimar republic
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Walter Rathenau
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German indulstrialist, foreign minister in weimar, assassinated 1922
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Matthias Erzeberger
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Centre party, assainanated by organization council
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Ernst Thalmann
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Head of KPD arrested by gestapo 1933 held in solitary confinement
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gustav stramann
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german peoples party poliitican chancellor in 1923, foreign minsiter
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paul von hindenburg
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names hitler president
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alfre hugenberg
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German national peoples party DNVP, hopes to control hitler
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Heinrich Bruning
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Chancellor 1930-1932, tightens credit reduces payments and very unpopular
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Franz Von Poppen
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Chancellor under Hitler 1933-1934, vice chancellor under hitler 1933-1934
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Kurt von Schliecher
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last Chancellor of germany, assasinated in night of long knives
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Kurt Schwitters
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German painter, DADA, merz pictures
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George Gros
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savagely carcitural drawings of berlin in 1920s
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Otto Dix
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german painter and printmaker, ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of weimar/war,
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water gropius
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German architect, founder of Bauhaus w/ Ludwig Mise de Roher, Le Corbisoer, Oscar Niemeyer
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Bruno Taut
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Glass Pavillion
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Kurt Tucholsky
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German-Jewish JOUNRALIST, satirist, writer, many pseudonyms
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Berlolt brecht
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german dramatist
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egon erwin kisch
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czech writer in journalist--raging reporter from prague, anti nazi
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Thomas Mann
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German novelist highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas use psychology of artist and invtellectual
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alfred doblin
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novelist, essayist, Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Hans Fallada
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writer, new objectivity, little man what about now, goose girl, every man dies alone
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Fritz Lang
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MAX SCHEMLING
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german boxer defeated by Joe Louis
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Treaty of Versailles
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very harsh on germany
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Ebert-Groener Pact
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Freirch Ebert and Groner--army has freee pass in dealing with communist with promise that military could retain state within state
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Stinnes Legein Agreement
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unions say they will have regular production, end strikes and drive back influence of councils, employers say get 8 hour work day
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Weimar Consitution
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Lots of Freedoms but article 48, seats on direct proportionality of votes, factions
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Reichstag Elections
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all the time, very varied
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Retenmark
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currency issued to stop hyperinflation 1922-23
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DADA
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negative reaction to WW1, prizes nonsense, irrationality and intuition
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New Objectivity
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making things american, all business attitude
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UFA
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motion prodcution comanpy that makes artiscally outstanding and technically competent films in silent era
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New Woman
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Nazi seize power
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1933
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Coordination
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Gliechschaltung
shrink pulic sphere for oponents obliterates all social/cultural plurarlism, abolish all parties |
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enabling act
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Chancellor--the authority to enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag. The act stated that it was to last for four years unless renewed by the Reichstag, which occurred twice.
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DAF German Labor front
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abolish trade unions
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Confessing Church
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Martin Niemoller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer resisters to german nazification of church
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Coordination of army
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compulsory conscription from 2 years at 1936
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1934 night of the long knives
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eliminates the sa
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1934 hindenburg dies
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military personal ath to hitler
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1937 hossbach memormandum
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hitler commander in chief of armed forces
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coordination of economy
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deficit spending, military spending
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Law for Restoration of Professional Civil service
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nationwide boycott of jewish businesses, medical law practices
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1935 nuremberg laws
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things jews could do slashed
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1938 night of broken glass
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night jewish buisnesses destroyed
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1940 foricble removal to jews housese
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speaks
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1941 yellow start
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forced identification
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1941 prohibit emigration
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cant leave
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1942 wannasee confference
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come up w/ final solution
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Ribbentrop-Molotov PAct
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alliance w/ soviet union
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septer 1, 1939,
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invasion of poland
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Blitzkrieg
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lightening war
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1940 occupy denmark and norway
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war with france and england
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Eagle attack
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1940 air fight for england, daily bombings london etc
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Operation Barbarossa
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Germany invades the USSR, mobile commandos begin killing soviet leaders, prisoners of war, roma and sinti
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December 1941
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germany declares war on us
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1943 surrender of german troops at stalingrad
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ready
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Josef Goebbel
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reich minister of propaganda
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Herman Gorring
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president riechstag, military leader, leader of nazis
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ernst rohm
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SA, killed in night of long knives hitler worried he would replace him
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Heinrich Himmler
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most directly responisble for holocaust
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Hjalmar schact
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economics minister, no rule in world war two, imprisoned
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Joahcim von Ribbentrp
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nazi foreign minister, realtively unsuccesful
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