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33 Cards in this Set
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Anti-semitism
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Hatred of Jews
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Blueprint
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A clear plan
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Chancellor
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Prime Minister
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Coalition
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A government made up of different parties
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Constitution
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The rules of how a country is governed
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Decree
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Law passed without the Reichstag's approval
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Democratic
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Rule by the people, free votes, you can criticise the government
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Depression
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Very bad for the economy - less trade, businesses go bust, high unemployment rates
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Diktat
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Germans called the treaty of Versailles this as they were forces to sign it
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Economic
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Things to do with the economy - money, jobs, prices, poverty etc
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Freikorps
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Ex-soldiers used the government to crush left - wing groups such as spartakists
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Fuhrer
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Name given to Hitler when he was the dictator
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Gestapo
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The Nazis secret police
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Hardship
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Difficulties for people - no jobs, lack of money, high prices etc
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Hyperinflation
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Value of money is worthless, prices are very high (billions of marks in Germany for bread)
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Kristallnacht
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Crystal night - the Night of Broken Glass
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Left - Wing
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Parties that wanted equality for poor People and workers; put peoples' rights and money first rather than the country, e.g Socialist and Communists
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November Criminals
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Name given to the politicians who signed the Armistice to end WW1
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Nuremberg laws
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Laws passed against Jews and other minorities
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One party state
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Country where there is only one political party
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Persecution
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Unfair treatment of a particular group
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Plebiscite/ referendum
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A vote
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Police State
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Nazi methods to deal with opponents - camps, peoples courts, Gestapo etc
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Power vacuum
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When nobody is in charge
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President
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Head of state in Germany who chooses the Chancellor
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Proportional Representation
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Electoral system where if a party gets e.g. 10% of votes = 10% of seats in Parliament
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Reichstag
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The most powerful house in German Parliament (like the house of commons)
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Right - Wing
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Parties that wanted strong leadership; put the country first (nationalist) e.g. Nazis
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Schutzstaffel (SS)
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Set up as Hitler's bodyguard ; killed the SA leaders; involved in the police state
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Spatakists
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Communists
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'Stab in the back' (Dolchstoss)
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The idea that the German army was not defeated in WW1 and the politicians who signed the Armistice had betrayed Germany
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Sturmabteilung (SA)
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Brown shirts or stormtroopers - they were the Nazis own army
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Totalitarian state
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A country where the government controls all aspects of peoples lives
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