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weimar republic |
the government of germany between the two world wars and their president is Friedrich Ebert |
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Friedrich Ebert |
The presdident of the Weimar Republic of Germany between the two world wars |
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Benito Mussolini |
the leader of Italy during world war II and founder of Italien fascism |
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Lateran Pact |
is an agreement between the pope and Mussolini that creates Vatican city, ends taxation of the church, and Mussolini pays $105 million to the pope for the Papal states |
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dawes plan |
U.S. plan to rebuild Germany at the end of WWI |
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Paul von HIndenberg |
the President of Germany upon the death of Ebert and will rule until HItler takes power |
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Treaties of Locarno |
treaty among European nations guaranteeing the established borders of nations following WWI |
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Kellogg-Briand Pact |
a treaty among European nations that outlaws war |
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Stalin |
leader of the Soviet Union upon the death of Lenin who took the pen name Stalin which means man of steel |
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Gregory Zinoviev |
chairman of the Petrograd soviet and came to power with Stalin |
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Leo Kamenev |
chairman of the Moscow soviet and came to power with Stalin |
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Francisco Franco |
Fascist dictator of Spain who will come to power in the Spanish Civil War and will rule until 1975 |
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Easter Rebellion |
the Catholic counties of Ireland rising up to gain their independence and create the Irish Free State |
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Statute of Westminister |
a law created by British parliament recognizing the full equality of all British colonies with England |
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Sigmund Freud |
and Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis |
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Zionism |
a worldwide movement to unite the Jewish people and establish the state of Israel |
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Gestapo |
the political police of the Nazi Party under Adolph Hitler |
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Ernst Rohm |
leader of the SA, known as storm troops, under the Nazi party leading up to WW I |
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Night of the Long Knives |
Hitler issues the order for the SS to wipe out the entire officer core of the SA |
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Herman Goering |
commander of the German airforce known as the Luftwaffe |
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Heinrich Himler |
leader of the Gestapo which becomes the SS, the elite military force of the Nazi Party |
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Paul Joseph Geobbels |
the Public Relations minister of the Nazi Party |
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Wehrmacht |
German army during WWII |
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Luftwaffe |
German Air Force during WWII |
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Charles de Gaulle |
leader of the Free French during WWII |
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Neville Chamberlain |
Prime MInister to England prior to WWII who signed the Munich Pact |
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Edouard Deladier |
President of France prior to WWII who signed the Munich Pact |
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Blitzkrieg |
a German word for lightning warfare, utilized by Germany in WWII |